One of the first critics to write about Brave New World was John Chamberlain. On February 7, 1932, in The New York Times Book Review John says, "Yet it is a little difficult to take alarm, for, as the hell-diver sees not the mud, and the angle worm knows not the intricacies of the Einstein theory "(233). He says the novel has good points about the future, but the public will not grasp it because they will not understand it. Chamberlain says, "If Mr. Huxley is unduly bothered about the impending static world, Aguirre 2 let him go back to his biology and meditate on the possibility that even in laboratory-created children mutations might be inevitable" (233). He is just a part of a few of the early critics who did not appreciate Huxley's vision of the future as later critics would.
A more modern critic who did appreciate Huxley's novel was