While Orwell’s ‘1984′ & Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ tend to corner the market when it comes to predicted dystopian societies, Anthony Burgess offered his own dystopian masterpiece in the form of 1962’s ‘The Wanting Seed’. It foresaw a culture that dealt with overpopulation by enforcing contraception, encouraging Self-sterilization and homosexuality. Overpopulation concerns from the left, have been floating around since the publication of Paul R. Ehrlich’s ‘The Population Bomb’ in 1968. The book was famous in exaggerating the future ramifications of excessive famine due to ‘overpopulation’. Most particularly, Ehrlich claimed, “In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people...