The ideas that would become Island can be seen in a foreword he wrote in 1946 to a new edition of Brave New World: If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative.
Die Ideen, welche später zu Eiland werden sollten, finden sich bereits in einem Vorwort Huxleys zu einer neuen Edition von Brave New World aus dem Jahre 1946: “If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer the Savage a third alternative.