The book is about a dystopian future where children are no longer born from parents, and are instead grown in laboratories and conditioned and grown in certain ways depending on the castes they are meant to go into when they grow up. For example, Alphas are the highest social class and so they are made the smartest and allowed to read and learn when they are older. The society Huxley describes is state-controlled, where the citizens are given something called "soma", a pill that makes them happy. All citizens are conditioned to be happy, to not want to be alone, and not question things. However, in different parts of the world there are things called reservations, where people are still born normally and aren't a part of the big state system because they're deemed to uncivilised. The book highlights the differences between the two types of society, and makes the reader think about what it means to be happy.
I really enjoyed reading this book, although I found it quite dense to get through sometimes because there were lots of technical terms in it and the different scenes throughout the book were difficult to follow as there weren't clear changes between them. However, there were lots of descriptive paragraphs which means it could be quite good to explore visually. I'm going to read some works by the other authors I was interested in first before I make a decision.
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