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Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 978-0099518471
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Extended: CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT
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Along with 1984, Brave New World is the masthead of dystopian fiction, worlds created to explore what makes a good social order and how best to achieve it. Depicting an ideal society full of happy and fulfilled citizens, where sex and drugs and music are hedonistic tools to pacify the population, Huxley illustrates the dangers of rampant technology and the elegant beauty of human frailties. Military personnel, defending a nation and its interests, must develop a sense of what they serve and why, and this book will prompt many such examinations. 

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