Aldous Huxley's most celebrated work and a classic science fiction. American Academy of Arts (1959) and Letters Award of Merit winner.
Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) the novel about life in a scientifically-controlled utopian future where cloning is the primary means of reproduction. The World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
The book was first made into a movie for TV in 1980 and has been filmed several times since.