ABSTRACT
Of the forty novels, essays, and short-story collections he published in his lifetime, only one of Aldous Huxley's works will certainly be widely read, indeed probably with renewed interest, in the next century—his novel Brave New World. Midway between the date of its writing and the revised date of its setting, Brave New World was adapted for television by National Broadcasting Company. Both Huxley and George Orwell wrote their books in an absit omen spirit and both tried to depict, as they saw it, possible futures, in each case futures centering upon Britain, though only as an exemplar of a much more general, indeed worldwide, reality. Huxley clearly felt that modernism, particularly as manifested in mass production and consumption, involved a change of values that was both fundamental and dubious. Huxley was also interested in certain then-modern forms of social thought, particularly conditioning theory.
