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Sparknotes presents detailed notes on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the science fiction classic. Summary of the Book Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic is considered a timeless masterpiece. It tells the story of a world where people are born only through artificial reproduction. Genetic engineering has washed awake the individual traits and strengths. Only one man seems to want to break away from this system, but he stands no chance against it. This book brings together detailed notes, academic annotations and study questions for students reviewing Aldous Huxley’s book in an educational light to study its cultural and literary significance. About Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was an English novelist best known for his books Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer and Island. Born into the house of the prominent Thomas Huxley, the biologist, Aldous studied at Balliol college, and taught French at Eton, where among his pupils were George Orwell and Steven Runciman. Brave New World has been adapted into several TV films, most recently in 1998 by Burt Brinckerhoff for Universal Television.