Island by Aldous Huxley is the final novel by this great author and psychedelic connoisseur. The book provides a counterpoint to Brave New World and describes a sort of paradise on earth. Without giving too much away, there is a certain psychedelic undertone to this book that makes it very much worth reading to better understand the psychedelic culture.
Publisher Summary
“In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn’t expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.“