"It blew my mind like no book had ever done before," says Santi Balmes, the singer of Love of Lesbian, referring to Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, which he read when he was 16. He was struck by the fact that in 1931, eight years before the Second World War, the English writer had been able to predict such a distant future with such accuracy (the plot begins in London in 2500 AD). "Only a genius could do that." Balmes explains that the beginning of the novel is devastating and addictive, and that he has not found another book that presented the story in such an interesting way.

The actor Lluís Soler (Manlleu, 1954) often says he's more comfortable living in the 20th century than the 21st, and in fact, he's an analog man without social media. He looks back at the voracity with which the internet has consumed contemporary society and quotes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Labutxaca, translated by Ramon Folch and Camarasa) as the book that best predicted where humanity is headed. "I read it many years ago, maybe 40 or 45, but it stayed with me. Huxley wrote it in 1931, but if we haven't surpassed everything he imagined, we're almost there. We live in an uncontrollable world in which all values change very quickly," says Soler, who this summer released The storm, Shakespeare's, with The Pearl 29.