Review of Brave New World by Chris Turner on August 27, 2007

Rating: 7 out of 10

This is the first British Sci-fi book ever written (I think?) so I felt compelled to read it.

It portrays a quite bleak future in which humanity is no longer born, they are raised in vats, each fertilized egg used to create dozens of clones. And to ensure a social hierarchy they not only tamper with the vats to create some people more deformed and stupid than others, but once "born" the newborns are subjected to brainwashing until they reach adulthood.

But I quite enjoyed it. The writing style is easy on the eye, despite being quite archaic in vocabulary. But you'd expect that from a book that was written early in the last century.

The only thing I didn't really like was the ending, it's very depressing. And even the author writes in the foreword that in hindsight he realises that his ending isn't as clear cut as he thought at the time of writing.

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