num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Wanting Seed
titlecomplete: The Wanting Seed
characters: Tristram Foxe, Beatrice-Joanna Foxe
genres: 20th Century, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 6215
places: United Kingdom
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company