Brave New World

'''Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.''' Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1932. New York: Bantam, 1958. Frequently reissued.

Presents a world-state of gentle but total control. People in the "Brave New World" are conceived in bottles and, in a sense, never leave their bottle-wombs. The literal womb-bottles move through a literal machine; the figurative womb-bottles, after one is decanted, are themselves within the apparatus of the World State.

Brave New World was adapted for the stage by Dawn King, premiering at Royal and Derngate, Northampton, UK, in 2015, with a strong aim of "adapting the book" in ways that would "encourage audiences to see their own world through Huxley's eyes, including how "technology, in control of powerful elites, can control our decision-making with social media, pornography, the commercialisation of sex, advertising, and reality TV" — etc.[]