& The best science fiction book ever definitely the most prescient Looking at our present trajectory we are on the way to Brave New World& Yuval Noah Harari author of Sapiens & Homo Deus‘A masterpiece of speculation As vibrant fresh & somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret Atwood A grave warning Provoking stimulating shocking & dazzling& Observer& What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact The consequences are profound & if we don&t get it right deeply disturbing& John Humphries Sunday Times WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD & DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future the World Controllers have created the ideal society Through clever use of genetic engineering brainwashing & recreational sex & drugs all its members are happy consumers Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring 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 Huxley&s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present & is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece