Comments on: How Aldous Huxley, 118 Today, Predicted the Present Far More Accurately than George Orwell

By: RS Deese

RS Deese — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:47:27 +0000

The Huxley quote here about political campaigns is from Brave New World Revisited, a book of essays which Huxley wrote more than 20 years after the publication Brave New World.

By: David Scholes

David Scholes — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:30:14 +0000

I’ve been reading speculative fiction in the broadest sense for well over 50 years.

Huxley’s great work has always been a favourite. In much more recent times I’ve tried to give something back to the genre: http://wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/all-things-good-and-scholes.html

Cheers

By: Brandt Hardin

Brandt Hardin — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:29:49 +0000

Huxley is turning in his grave nearly 100 years after his visionary prophecies began to form into his own mode of fiction. He is one of my favorite authors and raised serious issues and made world-wide breakthroughs in the research of psychedelics as well as our cognitive liberties. I drew a portrait as homage to the man and his works. See the him roll with the mushrooms, the pills and the doors of perception at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2010/07/aldous-huxley-rolls-in-his-grave.html

By: blindboy

blindboy — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:57:45 +0000

To consider George Orwell as a “science fiction” writer is to miss the point more or less completely. The reality is that both Orwell and Huxley were much more interested in the present than the future and, in Orwell’s case, it was his unerring eye for the darker side of human nature that justifies his on going literary status rather than any power of technological prognostication.