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I've read "Brave New Word" twice (once as a teen and again just recently). At either time in my life it was an excellent, thought provoking story. The difference in the feel of the book the two times: when I was young, the absurd quality was larger than life, it was a parody and a statement; recently read the story was overwhelmingly a vision of what we, as a society, could chose to do. The places where it felt very real were magnified and the parody scaled back to genuine moral questions.
You asked about "Brave New World." It is a sort of science fiction story that is really a commentary on human behavior and a projection "ad absurdum" of how it could be a century or two in the future. Brain washing or indoctrination and genetic manipulation are discussed. While it is fiction, it is disturbing to think about.
