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Sujoy Desai asked this question about Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited:
What's the difference between Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited? Is Revisited like an updated version or a supplement? Which one should I read first?
Christopher (Donut) BRAVE NEW WORLD is an amazing SF novel, a deft satire of the tendencies of modern civilization.

BNWR is a humdrum collection of boring essays, which p…moreBRAVE NEW WORLD is an amazing SF novel, a deft satire of the tendencies of modern civilization.

BNWR is a humdrum collection of boring essays, which prove almost beyond a doubt that Huxley had no idea of the greatness he had envisioned. For instance, he acts as though the most salient issues addressed in the novel were overpopulation and mind control via propaganda, whereas he has nothing to say about, e.g., diminishing emotion through easy sexual gratification (everyone belongs to everyone else), the possibility of poetry and philosophy among elites at "the end of history," etc.

In short, the contrast between the greatness of the one, and the mediocrity of the other could not be starker.(less)
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