《重返美丽新世界》是20世纪英国著名作家阿道司·赫胥黎晚年最重要的包含社会学、心理学和传播学的论著，也是其内容最精简、信息量却最庞大的作品。书稿出版于1958年，而本书是国内第一个未删减版本。该作品对二战后人类社会的命运进行了精彩绝伦的分析，预言了世界两大主流意识形态的未来；同时他还对自己的经典反乌托邦小说《美丽新世界》和奥威尔的著名小说《1984》做了详细的比较。舆论认为，赫胥黎对现代人类社会的认识超出普通人50年，在今时今日阅读他的作品，能让读者有一种重新认识了人类社会本质的感觉。
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在这部新作中，赫胥黎再次运用了他对人类关系的博识，将我们周边的这个真实世界和他那个预言性的1931年进行了比较。这确实让人感觉毛骨悚然，因为你会发现他对遥远未来的那种讽刺性预言居然在这么短的时间内成为了现实……在这个处于变动之中的世界里，《重返美丽新世界》在为心灵增添力量方面具有至关重要的作用。
——《纽约时报书评周刊》
《重返美丽新世界》是赫胥黎先生对社会问题进行了严肃而具有清晰逻辑的思考后的产物，其中传达的信息绝不该被忽视。他在其中所表现出的那种批判精神早已超越了其早先作品中那种单纯的愤世嫉俗。最后几页尤其令人震动，其中传达了这样一个悲伤的信号：或许人类本身并不希望获得拯救。
——曼努埃尔·布拉干萨，《时间和潮汐》
在《1984》中，人们被对痛苦的恐惧所控制；《美丽新世界》中，人们则被对快乐的盲目追逐所控制。
——《娱乐至死》作者 尼尔·波兹曼
反乌托邦的思路则提醒我们，未来也可能是坏的，今天的一切未必事事胜过昨天，而明天的一切也未必事事强似今天。
——王蒙

故事发生在2045年，虚拟现实技术已经渗透到了人类生活的每一个角落。詹姆斯哈利迪（马克·里朗斯 Mark Rylance 饰）一手建造了名为“绿洲”的虚拟现实游戏世界，临终前，他宣布自己在游戏中设置了一个彩蛋，找到这枚彩蛋的人即可成为绿洲的继承人。要找到这枚彩蛋，必须先获得三把钥匙，而寻找钥匙的线索就隐藏在詹姆斯的过往之中。
韦德（泰尔·谢里丹 Tye Sheridan 饰）、艾奇（丽娜·维特 Lena Waithe 饰）、大东（森崎温 饰）和修（赵家正 饰）是游戏中的好友，和之后遇见的阿尔忒弥斯（奥利维亚·库克 Olivia Cooke 饰）一起，五人踏上了寻找彩蛋的征程。他们所要对抗的，是名为诺兰索伦托（本·门德尔森 Ben Mendelsohn 饰）的大资本家。

In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed.
That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort. He was a far more serious man in 1958 -- at the age of 64 -- and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War. Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984. In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair. For it seemed to Huxley that people were well on their way to giving up their freedom and the sanctity of their individualism, in exchange for the illusions of comfort and sensory pleasure -- just as they had in Brave New World.
Huxley heard, in 1958, a world full of the noise of what he called singing commercials, flooding the mass media, much like the hypnopaedia that shaped conscious thought in the world of the novel. He saw people everywhere in greater numbers taking tranquilizer drugs, to surrender to the unacceptable aspects of modern life -- not unlike the drug called soma that everyone takes in the novel. The power of propaganda, he believed, had been validated by the rise of Hitler, and the postwar world was using it effectively to manipulate the masses. Overpopulation was already a critical issue in 1958, and Huxley saw the emergence of an overpopulated world in which the chaos was, more and more, being countered by centralized control -- closer, it seemed, to the future of Brave New World, where the ultimate controlling capitalist of Huxley´s early years, Henry Ford, had become the equivalent of God.
In the end, Brave New World Revisited despairs of what has come to pass, primarily modern humankind´s willingness to surrender freedom for pleasure. Huxley quotes from the episode of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov -- ´For nothing,´ the Inquisitor insists, ´has ever been more insupportable for a man or a human society than freedom.´ Huxley worried that the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" could easily be replaced by "Give me television and hamburgers, but don´t bother me with the responsibilities of liberty." He saw hope in the form of education, even the most pious, orthodox and inefficient kind of education -- education that can teach people to see beyond the easy slogans, efficient ends and anesthetic influences of propaganda. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for every long, Huxley concluded. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

俄国象征派中短篇小说的精华结集，收入费·索洛古勃、瓦·勃留索夫和安德列·别雷三位著名诗人、小说家的作品十九篇。
费·索洛古勃在其小说创作中将梦幻、魔幻的层面与现实、自然的层面糅合得水乳交融，将文学的假定性痕迹、虚构性品质深深地掩藏起来，使小说的叙述在一种潜移默化的状态 中不动声色地过渡。
瓦·勃留索夫“写情境的短篇小说”，其关注点集中在事件的“奇特性”上面，作者不关心小说中的人物形象是不是独立自主，人物形象随情节而动。
安德列·别雷在西方被看作20世纪俄国小说家中最杰出的天才，他的小说甚至被视为“划时代”的现象。
索洛古勃“用平稳而带有教训味道的语调讲述最恐怖和最荒诞的事物”。——霍尔索森
勃留索夫是“俄罗斯最有文化修养的作家”。——高尔基
别雷是“具有世界意义的小说家”。——雅·尚达

1000年后的世界，日本的孩子们正不断地消失，只存在想象中的恐怖动物与人类展开殊死战斗。反乌托邦式的未来超级社会“新世界”，是口吐真言凭藉“咒力”就能移动物体的人类，与有着等同于普通人智力的生物“化鼠”共存的世界。乍看之下一切和平，但“新世界”的孩子们的行动被彻底地控制和管束着，不合适的记忆被消去，被认为有问题的孩子，如同不良产品般被分开处理。因为一些违反规则的小事而莫名地失去不少朋友的主人公渡边早季，卷进了人类与化鼠之间的战争。