Implosion
By: by D.F. Jones.
Edition: [Book Club ed.]
Publisher: G.P. Putnam
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Infertility -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: An inexplicable decline in the birth-rate leads to an investigation and the discovery that the water of Great Britain has been treated with a substance that has left nearly 100% of British women sterile. The country faces total collapse under the effects of a population implosion. Dr. John Bart, Minister of Health, is forced to ruthless and totalitarian measures in the face of a growing violence and anarchy. His wife, along with other fertile women, is consigned to a breeding camp, where potential mothers are kept under heavy guard, and where they will bear -- thanks to fertility drugs -- litters of children. What can be the outcome of this desperate experiment?