First edition cover art for Brave New World. Photo: Leslie Holland / Chatto and Windus (London)
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature.
Now seems like the perfect time for a deep dive into a dystopian sci-fi world so she's chosen English author Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World.
It is set in a futuristic World State, where citizens are genetically bred into a strict intelligence based caste system and happily drugged out of their minds.
The novel was once illegal in Ireland and features on an American Library Association (ALA) list of the 10 books Americans tried hardest to ban.
A TV series based on the book has recently been released.
