Brave New World

A satirical novel set in a future World State, where people are produced in laboratories, sorted into castes and kept content by conditioning, easy pleasure and a drug called soma. Family, religion and deep emotion have been set aside in favour of stability. Bernard Marx, an uneasy insider, and Lenina Crowne, a model citizen, visit a reservation where people still live in older ways, and bring back a young man known as the Savage. His clash with the new order exposes what has been traded away for comfort. The book is a classic of dystopian fiction and still prompts questions about happiness, freedom and technology.