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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley  

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(1894–1963),grandson of T. H. Huxley and brother of Julian Huxley. By 1919, when he began to write for Murry in the Athenaeum, he had already published three volumes of verse; a volume of stories, ...
brave new world

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The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

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2007

after Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, itself a reference to Shakespeare's The Tempest a dystopian society resulting

Brave New World

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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a novel by A. Huxley, published in 1932. An anti-utopian satire, originally conceived as a parody of H. G. Wells...

Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow  

A novel by A. Huxley, published in 1921. First establishing Huxley's reputation for witty dialogue and cynically funny observation, it has usually been read as a roman-à-clef, satirizing Ottoline ...
J. B. S. Haldane

J. B. S. Haldane  

(1892–1964)British geneticist, biometrician, and philosopher who made valuable contributions to the physiology of respiration and chromosome mapping but above all to popularizing science and ...
utopia

utopia  

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An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used as the name of an imaginary island, governed on a perfect political and social system, in the book Utopia ...

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