Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

Has anybody read this book? It came up on a list of recommended dystopian future novels, some critics consider it an unofficial sequel to Fahrenheit 451, and I can certainly see where that idea comes from but I on the other hand, so far in my reading, find it comparable somehow to 1984, though I like this story much better so far.

This book seems to be hard to come by so I was lucky to find a cheap copy for my nephew, I think he'll get a kick out of this.

A very strange dystopian future story: robots run everything, the population is slowly dying off, nobody gets pregnant anymore and nobody notices, there are no families, nobody can read, everybody is fed drugs on a daily basis for things they don't know anything about, and in the midst of all this is one man who has learned how to read, and he reads the title cards of old silent movies and learns of a way of life that's non-existent in his own world and has been extinct for many years, one with families and love and homes. This is not a story that can be seen AS likely to really happen like Fahrenheit 451 or 1984, but the whole explanation for why nobody gets pregnant anymore could very well happen and that is something I find particularly creepy.