The Wanting Seed

by Anthony Burgess

First published 1962 · 285 pages

About this book

"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. "

  • Birth control
  • Fiction
  • Fiction in English
  • Homosexuality
  • Married people
  • Overpopulation
  • English literature
  • Fiction, science fiction, general

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