Summary The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is A.F. 632, After Ford. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving some students a tour of the factory that produces and conditions human beings from conception through childhood for their predestined roles in the World State. Human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially …showed first 75 words of 5068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5068 total…flesh! Kill it, kill it!" Fascinated by the spectacle, the crowd mimes his gestures, dances, and sings the Solidarity hymn. After midnight, the helicopters depart and John collapses, "stupefied by soma" and the extended "frenzy of sensuality." When he awakes the next day, he remembers everything with horror. Having read about the "orgy of atonement" in the papers, a swarm of visitors descends on John's lighthouse to discover that he has hanged himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**