Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was the author of the science fiction novel Brave New World. A copy of the novel was contained in the TARDIS library. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice ^[+]Loading...["The Wheel of Ice (novel)"])

In 1899, the Fourth Doctor told Romana I that he had once met Huxley. (AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar ^[+]Loading...["The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)"]) The Eighth Doctor recalled a picnic in a dusty valley with Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Bertrand Russell and Greta Garbo. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress ^[+]Loading...["The Scarlet Empress (novel)"])

Behind the scenes

• Huxley died on 22 November 1963, the same day as US President John F. Kennedy and the day before the first broadcast of An Unearthly Child ^[+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"].
• He was the grandson of Thomas Huxley.
• Timewyrm: Exodus ^[+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"] references real-world Nazi plans, discovered after World War II, to arrest many significant British figures during Operation Sealion. Known as The Black Book in real life, Huxley was on that list, although he had emigrated to the United States of America in 1936.