The Wanting SeedThe Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality ("It's Sapiens to be Homo"). This time of the near future is eventually transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without enemies. The Wanting Seed is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 23 |
Section 4 | 35 |
Section 5 | 47 |
Section 6 | 53 |
Section 7 | 57 |
Section 8 | 85 |
Section 14 | 143 |
Section 15 | 163 |
Section 16 | 173 |
Section 17 | 175 |
Section 18 | 178 |
Section 19 | 184 |
Section 20 | 198 |
Section 21 | 217 |
Section 9 | 96 |
Section 10 | 109 |
Section 11 | 125 |
Section 12 | 130 |
Section 13 | 136 |
Section 22 | 231 |
Section 23 | 269 |
Section 24 | 273 |
Section 25 | 281 |
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