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Next to the line “The mighty novel of a soulless, streamlined Eden - and the two who escape it” the cover shows a man and a woman, naked but with a sort of mist obscuring their naughty bits, climbing through an abstract aperture beyond which we can see a hint of a futuristic city. She thought that I would be amused by the cover, which pitched the book as a lurid pulp novel. When Bernard and Lenina bring the two back to London, John serves as the mouthpiece for the conflicts between the Reservation, which still abides by traditional values, and the technocracy of the World State.A few years ago a friend gave me a gift she’d found in a used-book sale somewhere - a Bantam paperback edition, from 1955 (price 35 cents) of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. On the Reservation, they meet Linda, a former citizen of the World State who had stayed behind, and her son John, born through a “viviparous” procreation, a scandal in the World State. He is accompanied by Lenina Crowne, an attractive foetus technician. Bernard Marx, a petty and depressive psychiatrist who works for the Hatchery, is sent on a mission to the New Mexico Reservation, where “savages” live. It is a society that rests on consumerism and collectivism and has a rigid caste system. Fun Fact: Kurt Vonnegut admitted to ripping off the plot of Brave New World for Player Piano (1952), claiming that Brave New World’s plot “had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We.'"īrave New World follows a few characters as they live their lives in the seemingly utopian World State metropolis of London.