Hints of Brave New World can be seen in Aldous Huxley’s first novel. Wells, like A Modern Utopia, The Sleeper Awakes, and especially Men Like Gods.
When he began work on the project that would ultimately become Brave New World, Huxley was envisioning a loose and affectionate parody of the Wellsian utopia in the science fiction works of H. His early novels Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, and Those Barren Leaves had served as send-ups of the avant-garde communities of the 1920s. Brave New World started out as a parody.īefore creating his most famous work, Huxley was mostly known as a satirist. In case you haven’t taken a trip to Huxley’s World State in quite some time, here are a few interesting facts about the novel’s inspiration and the legacy it spawned. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic Brave New World is arguably one of the most inventive novels published in the 20th century.
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