Brave New World BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technology plays a key role in the social control of Brave New World. Reproduction takes place in a "Hatchery". Stolen ova are inspected for abnormalities, fertilised, put into incubators and then undergo the "Bokanovsky Process". Each embryo is bombarded for 8 minutes with X-r