Ape and Essence Author:Aldous Huxley In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. Although it is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, the blight of radiation still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction, but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation that confronts them.
The book has a certain awesome impressiveness, its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization.