I read The Best in Worlds when I was about 11 years. This is not the story that stayed with me, but this vision of draconian utopia that I remember most. Because we really question the pros and cons of this artificial society, so perfect in appearance. Then I learned more about the author and his family: Huxley was a prominent eugenicists of family; starting with laïeul Thomas Henry (inventor of the precepts of biometrics) and ending with Julian, the brother dAldous (geneticist named head of UNESCOs after the Second World War). In contact with the highest levels of scientific, political and financial, so the Huxley had access to certain information that enabled Aldous danticipation write this visionary work in just four months in 1931. I treat the subject in more depth in the Book 3 Cycle of Gaian Angels, but Aldous Huxley imagined didnt Brave New World; it turned actually based on that planned to make the elite of our society in future times! Seen this way, everything became clear. I realized that what had bothered me so much in this book was that Brave New World was feasible, that the author was based on a real project and not on an abstract vision which nenlève nothing to his genius, also demonstrated in other major works as The Doors of Perception. Jen recommend reading, not so much for style or history, but so you know what to expect. Since this book came out the elite has made its way, and many things have become reality announced. Nowadays genetic selection used to select certain features of his child, lhypnose radio handles its education, senclave fortress-West exploited the Third World and soma is called antidepressant ... Brave New World we are not yet there, but we go, and faster and faster. Read emergency so.
