The term 'Brave New World Drug' refers to the fictional drug SOMA, which appears in ALDOUS Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. In the novel, SOMA is a hallucinogenic drug used by the citizens of the dystopian society to escape reality and maintain social stability. Epsilon is a class of people in the novel who are genetically engineered to perform menial labor. Gamma is another class of people who are genetically engineered to be intellectuals. Huxley is the author of the novel, and ALDOUS is his first name.