[Book Discussion] Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Join us to discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Published in 1932, the book is Huxley's vision of a dystopia that works by giving people exactly what they want. Pleasure is abundant, discomfort is dissolved by a drug called soma, and nobody is forced into anything. What happens in a world with such abundance? What does it really trade away?

Useful Links

1. e-book from archive.org - [link](https://archive.org/details/ost-english-brave_new_world_aldous_huxley/mode/2up)

Goodreads Overview *Brave New World* is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. 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 that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.

Housekeeping

• Members are encouraged to read the book before attending