Dystopia Stolen
Due to the ideas found in his books, especially Brave New World, Aldous Huxley is often believed to be a creative genius. However, the original creators behind many of the ideas within the pages of that book are actually H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell. Biologically engineered caste systems, emotionless pleasure employed to maintain social stability, and extreme control methods are themes found throughout Men Like Gods, The Island of Dr. Moreau, A Modern Utopia, and When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells and The Scientific Outlook and Icarus by Bertrand Russell.
By looking at the original publishing dates on the books of Huxley, Russell, and Wells, one would probably be led to think that it was the latter two who stole ideas from the former one. When it is considered, however, that they were often in conversation together and that Wells and Russell had publicly discussed their ideas long before Huxley did so, it is apparent that the author of Brave New World took those ideas from......
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