After reading on Wikipedia (who I assume know what the heck they're talking about) that novelist Aldous Huxley intentionally wrote "Brave New World" (his famous, 1932, Sci-Fi novel) as a parody of H.G. Wells' 1923 story "Men Like Gods", that completely changed my whole perspective on this much-lauded tale of the future. Yep. It sure did.
I mean, with the exception of but a few brief moments of carefully calculated irony (thrown into this humourless yarn for good measure), I found "Brave New World" to be some of the absolute driest and clinically hopeless satire I have ever read this side of the 20th Century.
Hey, folks! - I'm not deliberately trying to knock "Brave New World". I'm not. - But, you know, if this piece of fiction was really supposed to be Huxley's supreme jest, lampooning the likes of H.G. Wells, then, believe me, it certainly missed its intended mark - Yeah - By a long shot!
Anyway - I certainly can't argue that "Brave New World" (though now 80+ years old) was, indeed, something of an interesting read - But, for me to honestly rate it as a parody (as Huxley apparently intended it to be), then I couldn't possibly give it more than just an average rating.
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