The novel Brave New World looks more prescient with the passage of time, not less. The novel's main female character Lenina Crowne has jumped off its pages and into our lives. It wouldn't take much of a stretch to imagine that a real life Lenina in our world would carry a smart phone on her contraceptive-loaded Malthusian belt (or perhaps we should now call them "Fluke Belts"?) , have Facebook & Twitter accounts, go to "feelies" based on Twilight & Hunger Games novels, and even sport tattoos.