Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932.
Largely set in a futuristic World State of genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy.
The novel anticipates huge scientific developments in reproductive technology. Huxley also predicts advances in sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning.
These prescient thoughts are combined to make a utopian society that goes challenged only by a single outsider.
Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.