The Wanting Seed

New York Review of Books
“…A mechanically contrived and clumsy novel; its gimmick is the population explosion, and it relies on no other allurements–neither plot nor character nor style nor atmosphere. All the foreseeable grotesque horrors are here….”

Times Literary Supplement
“Wildly and fantastically funny….Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgess’s vocabulary, his love of quotations, and literary allusions….A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive.”