The 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.