Brave New World is a brilliantly satiric novel about life six centuries from now (in "632 After Ford"), the Utopian era in which science has, with juggernaut indifference, triumphed. It is on era of perfect stability, control, conformity.  There are, for example, no mothers or fathers because babies ore mass-produced from chemical solutions in laboratory bottles; children are completely conditioned for their designated roles as adults in a precisely ordered society.  Into this incredible world comes Bernard Marx, hatched in an excessively alcoholic prenatal solution, with ideas worthy of the primitive twentieth century.  This is a shocking, fantastic novel, rich in witty entertainment and biting comment. Its status as a classic increases steadily as what seemed imaginary fiction becomes each day more of a reality.