Brave new world [electronic resource]

By:

Huxley, Aldous

Contributor(s):

York, Michael

Publication details: [Ashland, OR] Blackstone Publishing 2008Edition: Unabridged edISBN:

9780792753520

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Summary: RemoteSummary: Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media-has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.Summary: Mode of access: World Wide Web.Summary: [electronic resource] /Summary: Playing time: 075900Summary: Read by Michael York.

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Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media-has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

[electronic resource] /

Playing time: 075900

Read by Michael York.

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