This article compares E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) by focussing on the mother-child relationship in order to explore the relation between these works, particularly the influence of the former on the latter. The article first compares Vashti and Kuno in “The Machine Stops” with Linda and John in Brave New World. Both mothers appear to represent technology, progress, and rationalism, while both sons appear to represent nature, tradition, and imagination, but the two texts deconstruct this binary opposition to a certain degree. These futuristic narratives also depict a mother’s mixed feelings of love and hatred towards her son as well as an indefinable, special relationship between mother and child, who look identical but are different individuals. Compared with Forster’s story, Huxley’s novel delves deeply into the psychology of the son and closely delineates the rational system of reproduction. These differences, to some extent, reflect the development of contemporary contexts of psychoanalysis and reproduction. The present article concludes that, regarding his representation of mother and son, Huxley owed much to Forster in terms of theme, plot, and characters.