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The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess · Booklabria

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The Wanting Seed

Science FictionMarried people

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First published: 1962
Editions: 24 in 2 languages

Synopsis

"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. "

Subjects: Science Fiction
Married people
Homosexuality
Birth control
Overpopulation
Set in: England
Ireland

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24 in 2 languages

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