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      The Wanting Seed

      by Anthony Burgess
      Published
      Dec 1996
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      Science Fiction Sci-Fi
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      288
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      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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      Speculative Fiction

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      First Edition Dec 1996 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393315088
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