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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
Aldous Huxley full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America; Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery "Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light", a film essay by Oliver Hockenhull; Aldous Huxley at IMDb; BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...
Antic Hay is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923.The story takes place in London, and gives a satiric depiction [1] of the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.
Island (Huxley novel), 1962, by Aldous Huxley; The Island (Benchley novel), 1979, by Peter Benchley; Island (Laymon novel), 1991, by Richard Laymon; Island (novel series), 2000–2006, by Gordon Korman; Island (Rogers novel), 1999, by Jane Rogers; Island (short story collection), 2000, by Alistair MacLeod; The Island (Hislop novel), 2005, by ...
Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island; Palanai, an island neighboring Banoi, which is near Papua New Guinea, and the setting for Dead Island: Riptide. Panau: from Just Cause 2; Pangabula Island: an island in the children's television story show Jay Jay the Jet Plane; Pantala: a continent in the book series Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland
Bokanovsky's Process is a fictional process of human cloning that is a key aspect of the world envisioned in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. The process is applied to fertilized human eggs in vitro, causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original. The process can be repeated several times, though the maximum ...