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For those of you who study science fiction here is some info on Brave New World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
BRAVE NEW WORLD LINKS:
- Brave New World. Complete online text of the novel (the online version of the book has been removed from somaweb per the legal threat by Arthur Klebanoff of Rosetta Books; he can be contacted at aklebanoff@rosettabooks.com)
- Utopia by Sir Thomas More. Online text.
- 1992 - Brave New World and the present day?
- Novelguide.com - summary, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, etc...
- BNW Monarch Notes. A good online summary and review of the book. (99 k)
- Barron's Book Notes series on Brave New World. Similar to Cliff Notes. Includes the following subjects: novel, plot, characters, setting, themes, point of view, form & structure, style, the story summarized, a step beyond, tests and answers, term paper ideas, glossary, critics, advisory board, and bibliography. The online version is here.
- BNW Max Notes at amazon.com
- Classic Notes
- Role of Individuality in Invisible Man and Brave New World -John Coughlin.
- Brave New World or Island -The World Must Decide. Ram Dass gave the following talk at The Celebration Of the Birth Centenary of Aldous Huxley.
- BNW: The Cost of Stability By Ricky Gehlhaus, Jr.
- The Cost of Stability in BNW: Freedom. By Ming Li.
- Brave New World Project by Stephanie Iser. Includes: character sheet, author info, time info, chapter summaries, vocabulary terms, quotes, book summary and a survey of reader opinions.
- BNW, by Richard Cornelissen. Comprehensive information.
- A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering. "Brave New World is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written. " This author of this article challenges the common public perception of the novel and offers a vision for the future.
- BNW radio broadcast by Huxley. "Brave New World" was originally broadcast as the series premiere, in two parts, on January 27 and February 3rd, 1956. Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their experience with the drug Soma...
- BNWAudio tapes. As read by British actor Michael York, this unabridged audio edition of the book is both timely and absolutely captivating.
- National Public Radio, NPR specials on Huxley. Huxley biographer David Dunnaway, reexamines this classic work 65 years after it was first published, RealAudio 28.8 file, Aug 12, 1997. Thursday, December 23, 1999.
- BNW Audio Book by audiopartners.com. Other BNW audio tapes.
- BNW summary at The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database.
- BNW Chapter XIX, by Inga Duechting, Christina Pichlmaier, Nicole Tessmer.
- BNW: A Study of Dehumanization
- Conditioning and Instinct by Richard Lung.
- Five and a Half Utopias. Despite its dismal record, the utopian impulse is by no means extinct. An eminent physicist looks at several of the guises in which utopian thinking is likely to appear during the century ahead -- and at the perils that lurk behind each one. By Steven Weinberg. Atlantic Monthly, Jan 2000.
- First Things. Article on BNW by Leon Kass. "All contemporary societies, the open ones no less than the closed, are traveling briskly in the same utopian direction."
- BNW Themes by Marin.
- BWN Themes by Mireia Ferrandis Pradas.
- Henry Ford. at the Henry Ford Museum. Real about the man and company.
- Short essay by Marta Cortell Villora
- A Potentially Frightening New World by Cal Thomas.
- Embodiments and Contextual Difference in Brave New World by Tom Bracali.
- Utopian Visions site: Soma, Shakespeare, and Suicide: The Terrors of Techno Utopia, by Courtney Campbell; The Dangers of Utopian Thinking and the Republic by Gregory Johnson; Plato and Utopia by William Uzgalis; Exclusion and Utopian Thinking by David Anderson; Marcuse's Modern Marxism: Utopia for the Twentieth Century by Lisa Blasch; Elements of Utopia by Kim Daley & Suzanne Gaulocher; Utopian Writing: It's Nature and Historical Context by Brooks Spencer.
- Two Modern Utopias: A Comparative Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Stanislaw Lem's Return From the Stars Michael Richard Lopez, May 1998.
- Snow Crash vs. Brave New World. Visions of the future. By Eric Richardson.
- Exploring Dystopia: 1984, Brave New World, Gattaca. Interesting site.
- "In That New World Which is the Old": New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. By Oliver Quimby Melton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. December 2003
- Group Analysis of Brave New World by 15 groups of German students. 2005.
- The Society For Utopian Studies. Founded 1975. International, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.
- Brand New World, 2005. An interesting movie exploring contemporary advertising, television and consumerism as it related to Brave New World. Film includes interviews with academics, hermits and Huxley scholars. Site includes movie trailer. Filmmakers: Ewan Jones-Morris & Andrzej Wójcik.
- BNW, TV movie (1980). IMDB link.
- BNW, TV movie (1998). IMDB link.
For those of you who study science fiction here is some info on Brave New World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
BRAVE NEW WORLD LINKS:
- Brave New World. Complete online text of the novel (the online version of the book has been removed from somaweb per the legal threat by Arthur Klebanoff of Rosetta Books; he can be contacted at aklebanoff@rosettabooks.com)
- Utopia by Sir Thomas More. Online text.
- 1992 - Brave New World and the present day?
- Novelguide.com - summary, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, etc...
- BNW Monarch Notes. A good online summary and review of the book. (99 k)
- Barron's Book Notes series on Brave New World. Similar to Cliff Notes. Includes the following subjects: novel, plot, characters, setting, themes, point of view, form & structure, style, the story summarized, a step beyond, tests and answers, term paper ideas, glossary, critics, advisory board, and bibliography. The online version is here.
- BNW Max Notes at amazon.com
- Classic Notes
- Role of Individuality in Invisible Man and Brave New World -John Coughlin.
- Brave New World or Island -The World Must Decide. Ram Dass gave the following talk at The Celebration Of the Birth Centenary of Aldous Huxley.
- BNW: The Cost of Stability By Ricky Gehlhaus, Jr.
- The Cost of Stability in BNW: Freedom. By Ming Li.
- Brave New World Project by Stephanie Iser. Includes: character sheet, author info, time info, chapter summaries, vocabulary terms, quotes, book summary and a survey of reader opinions.
- BNW, by Richard Cornelissen. Comprehensive information.
- A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering. "Brave New World is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written. " This author of this article challenges the common public perception of the novel and offers a vision for the future.
- BNW radio broadcast by Huxley. "Brave New World" was originally broadcast as the series premiere, in two parts, on January 27 and February 3rd, 1956. Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their experience with the drug Soma...
- BNWAudio tapes. As read by British actor Michael York, this unabridged audio edition of the book is both timely and absolutely captivating.
- National Public Radio, NPR specials on Huxley. Huxley biographer David Dunnaway, reexamines this classic work 65 years after it was first published, RealAudio 28.8 file, Aug 12, 1997. Thursday, December 23, 1999.
- BNW Audio Book by audiopartners.com. Other BNW audio tapes.
- BNW summary at The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database.
- BNW Chapter XIX, by Inga Duechting, Christina Pichlmaier, Nicole Tessmer.
- BNW: A Study of Dehumanization
- Conditioning and Instinct by Richard Lung.
- Five and a Half Utopias. Despite its dismal record, the utopian impulse is by no means extinct. An eminent physicist looks at several of the guises in which utopian thinking is likely to appear during the century ahead -- and at the perils that lurk behind each one. By Steven Weinberg. Atlantic Monthly, Jan 2000.
- First Things. Article on BNW by Leon Kass. "All contemporary societies, the open ones no less than the closed, are traveling briskly in the same utopian direction."
- BNW Themes by Marin.
- BWN Themes by Mireia Ferrandis Pradas.
- Henry Ford. at the Henry Ford Museum. Real about the man and company.
- Short essay by Marta Cortell Villora
- A Potentially Frightening New World by Cal Thomas.
- Embodiments and Contextual Difference in Brave New World by Tom Bracali.
- Utopian Visions site: Soma, Shakespeare, and Suicide: The Terrors of Techno Utopia, by Courtney Campbell; The Dangers of Utopian Thinking and the Republic by Gregory Johnson; Plato and Utopia by William Uzgalis; Exclusion and Utopian Thinking by David Anderson; Marcuse's Modern Marxism: Utopia for the Twentieth Century by Lisa Blasch; Elements of Utopia by Kim Daley & Suzanne Gaulocher; Utopian Writing: It's Nature and Historical Context by Brooks Spencer.
- Two Modern Utopias: A Comparative Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Stanislaw Lem's Return From the Stars Michael Richard Lopez, May 1998.
- Snow Crash vs. Brave New World. Visions of the future. By Eric Richardson.
- Exploring Dystopia: 1984, Brave New World, Gattaca. Interesting site.
- "In That New World Which is the Old": New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. By Oliver Quimby Melton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. December 2003
- Group Analysis of Brave New World by 15 groups of German students. 2005.
- The Society For Utopian Studies. Founded 1975. International, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias.
- Brand New World, 2005. An interesting movie exploring contemporary advertising, television and consumerism as it related to Brave New World. Film includes interviews with academics, hermits and Huxley scholars. Site includes movie trailer. Filmmakers: Ewan Jones-Morris & Andrzej Wójcik.
- BNW, TV movie (1980). IMDB link.
- BNW, TV movie (1998). IMDB link.
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