The Wanting Seed

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1962
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Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

Published Date

1962

Publisher
Heinemann
Place Published
London
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1962 [Wilson, John Anthony Burgess] (1917-1993). The Wanting Seed. By Anthony Burgess [pseud.]. London: Heinemann. U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with an unpaged “A Foreword” by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; rpt. London: Arrow, 1985; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his “1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction” (v-viii). PSt

Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

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U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; rpt. London: Arrow, 1985; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

Pseudonym

Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

Author Note

(1917-1993)

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