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11 unusual facts about Brave New World


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In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley;the Nine Years' War ends with the Economic Collapse just beginning.

Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett

He is also widely considered to be the inspiration behind Mustapha Mond, one of the ten world controllers in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Gods of Luxury

The lyrics for Soma Holiday were taken from the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel, Brave New World.

Little Eichmanns

In fact, except for his targets, when have the many little Eichmanns who are preparing the Brave New World ever been called to account?

Pitty

The album title was inspired by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (translated to Portuguese as "Admirável Mundo Novo").

Planned economy

The difference is that it was a primitivist planned economy, as opposed to the advanced technology of We or Brave New World.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

Reproductive technology

In the 20th century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) was the first major fictional work to anticipate the possible social consequences of reproductive technology.

Tesuque, New Mexico

There is a passing mention of Tesuque in chapter 6 of the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World society uses thought-terminating clichés in a more conventional manner, most notably in regard to the drug soma as well as modified versions of real-life platitudes, such as, "A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away".

Vila Restal

A native of Earth and a member of the lowly Delta grade criminal underclass (similar to the classes established in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World), Vila is a petty thief who meets Blake in the detention cell awaiting transport to Cygnus Alpha.


Accident of Birth

The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie and the artwork on all Iron Maiden albums/singles/posters/tour brochures throughout 1980–1990 (and sporadically afterwards up until 2000's Brave New World other than one additional Eddie drawing for the cover of his book Run for Cover).

Bernard Watson

Graham relented, and Watson (who took his stage name from Bernard Marx and Helmholz Watson, two characters from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World") took the stage at 8:51am (EDT).

Birds and Cages

Their previous album, All the Houses Look the Same, was released on record label Brave New World.

Ferdinand Bordewijk

It is comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which appeared one year later and which Bordewijk deemed to be junk ("een enorme prul").

Leslie Libman

She co-directed with Larry Williams two television movies - in 1997 the HBO TV movie Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (starring Peter Gallagher and Art Malik) and the 1998 TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (again starring Gallagher with Leonard Nimoy) for the USA Network.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham

He believed Burnham was fascinated by power and was sympathetic to Nazi Germany while they appeared to be winning, but by 1945 had transferred his sympathy to the USSR He noted however that the theme of a new (and probably servile) society – neither capitalist nor socialist – was predicted in many works such as Belloc's The Servile State, and dystopian novels such as Wells' The Sleeper Awakes,Zamyatin's We and Huxley's Brave New World.

The Message in the Bottle

Percy alludes to a metaphor he had used in "The Delta Factor," that of the literature student who cannot read a Shakespearean sonnet that is easily read by a post apocalyptic survivor in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.