The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.</p>

The nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.</p>

阿道司·赫胥黎，英國文豪，著名的赫胥黎傢族最傑齣的成員之一，從小受到良好教育，先後畢業於伊頓公學和牛津大學。赫胥黎一生中創作瞭大量優秀作品，其中最著名有長篇小說《美麗新世界》（Brave New World，1932）、社會學論著《重返美麗新世界》（Brave New World Revisited，1958）和紀實文學《盧丹的惡魔》（The Devils of Loudun，1952）等。他對人類麵臨的社會問題有著常人望塵莫及的洞察力，因此使其成為二十世紀英國最傑齣的公共知識分子之一。他作品中的諸多預言在今時今日看來竟已多數成真。

莊蝶庵，作傢、翻譯，著有小說《反西遊記》《濠上憶舊》《植物人》等，譯有《點評本福爾摩斯探案集精選》《重返美麗新世界》《盧丹的惡魔》等，現任教於南京財經大學新聞學院。