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Book · 1962

The Wanting Seed

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Malthusian satire Dark comic dystopia Near future unease Social engineering fantasy Bureaucratic absurdism Gender sexuality politics

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Release
1962

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. "

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