Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 632 A.F.—After Ford—in the book, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited 1958, and with Island 1962, his final novel.,