Bernard Marx, a citizen in a utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, embarks on a tragic search for truth after he begins to feel something is missing from life.
Over the years Davy had developed his skills at teleportation, but now a mysterious group of people has kidnapped him in order to use his abilities for their own purpose and his wife, Millie, seems to be the only one who can rescue him.
Describes types of mind control such as cult conversion, hypnosis, prefrontal lobotomies, brainwashing, and electric shock treatment, some of which are extremely controversial, especially when applied against one's will.
"With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders, but Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves"--Provided by publisher.
Stacy is concerned when her best friend Amy throws away her collection of Doc Martens and starts wearing sensible shoes, and when it becomes evident that all the teens in town are turning into their parents, she begins to search for answers before it's too late.
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Young Corin Leynier of Darkover, whose special powers of consciousness have just begun to develop, realizes that something evil has been implanted in his mind during his training by the powerful but mysterious man who saved his people--but he has lost the power to speak of it.
The author discusses some of the concerns addressed in his novel "Brave New World," covering such issues as brainwashing, overpopulation, and the use of propaganda in democratic societies.
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
