Brave New World

As an inversion of Orwell's 1984 Brave New World is scarily logical and devastatingly simple view of a totalitarian world which everyone accepts rather joyfully. It is a very dense text, the initial pseudoscience section describing the approach to creating this society was fascinating and almost believable, probably even more so in the year it was written and the later concepts of a consumerist and stratified caste system is horribly prescient. There was a slight over reliance on Shakespeare to show passion and art and the character of John was more of a catalyst rather than a truly believable individual but overall these were minor quibbles.