Brave new world / Aldous Huxley
By: Huxley, Aldous.
Material type: TextPublisher: Australia : Penguin books, 1969Description: 200 p.Subject(s): Totalitarianism -- Fiction | Passivity (Psychology) -- Fiction | Genetic engineering -- FictionDDC classification: 823 H986B 1969 Summary: Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.
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