Soylent Green and Soma for dessert.  What is Soma in Brave New World? Soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) Soma in Aldous Huxley's. Brave New World. "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." "..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..." Soma And The Victory Gin In George Orwell's 1984 990 Words4 Pages Furthermore, Kowalska (1987) states, “Soma allows anyone to get away for a while from reality and return to it without any rebellion. Also it provides the much-needed illusion that there is no greater vexation that everything is as it should be” (p. 71).