I read this in January 2016, and goodness only knows how many years ago in my youth!
This is the Regency Book Club's choice for March 2016.
This was surprisingly easy to read, and still relevant today, conditioning, class system, our attitude to outsiders, those questioning the norm....I could see echos of 1984 and Anthony Burgess' The Wanting Seed and Logan's Run.
A future in which sex is just for pleasure not for procreation, test tube, state conditioned babies, everyone knowing their place.
Bernard is a Maverick, he and Lenina visit a 'Reservation' savages living the old ways and find a woman form their own world who was pregnant by the Controller when she got lost on a Reservation trip with him and had the child. They re-eenter 'society' as the mother Linda, knew it adn John the son was taught it . Neither could cope.
I recommend reading/rereading it...
9/10
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