I read both books at school. Indeed I recall in my English Literature exam I chose Brave New World ahead of other books even though it wasn't on our school's list, but it was on the examination board list. Ah, the days when even students had some freedom! My Eng Lit course was slightly schizophrenic as we had a communist sympathizer in the first year who then left and we were saddled with a romantic! I recall preferring the commie!! The very start of BNW is depressing as we see the factory clone Epsilons, the lowest class of manual labour, and trying to figure out how to make them grow into adults as fast as possible so that they could be productive rather than wasting society's resources on being useless children. And this is utopia?! Gattaca is a modern adaptation of the same idea. Not a bad movie, if a bit hollywooden. Join Xomba Here