George Henry Foundation, of New York City, and its somewhat absurd Alfred A. Gross, who from his vantage point on its staff professes an expertise which he by no means possesses, as Dr. Ruitenbeek makes clear. Next to suffer is the even more absurd R. E. L. Masters, of whose The Homosexual Revolution Dr. Ruitenbeek "wonders how a responsible publisher could have accepted it," which was precisely the question ONE Magazine Editor Don Slater asked of Julian Press, to their great annoyance.

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Next to fall is the notorious Dr. Bergler, deliberately omitted from this anthology, because "His observations on homosexuality are close to psychoanalytic nonsense that their inclusion would violate the editor's criteria of responsible scholarship." For which comment, cheers. Something like this has long needed saying and it comes with special force when uttered by a fellow psychoanalyst.

Dr. Ruitenbeek also is to be heartily commended for his insistence that homosexuality "can no longer be ignored or approached merely from a legal point of view. Even the therapeutic approach is insufficient." It is most heartening to those of us at ONE Institute to find other professionals in the field at last coming round to the point of view from which we have for so many years been working. This compact little volume of comment and controversy is heartily recommended to all readers of ONE's publications.

W. Dorr Legg ONE Institute

THE WANTING SEED by Anthony Burgess, Norton, 1963. This futuristic novel poses England, like the rest of the world, desperately fighting overpopulation.

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"The homos" are in charge in every country with a "Homosex Institute" propagandizing. Heterosexuals tolerated but punished for having more than one child. A worldwide famine causes chaos, the heterosexuals go berserk and bring back ancient fertility rites by copulating in the fields. The government, still in the hands of "the homos", is forced to tolerate more reproduction. The novel ends with it, like the world, being as much in a muddle as ever.

The story is told through the eyes of three people, all heterosexual. The reader never meets any of "the homos." They are merely glimpsed or talked about derogatorily and are simpering, perfumed swishes, without one exception.

That any kind of homosexual group would even want to, even if they could, rule the earth is stretching the imagination enough. But that the swish are going to inherit it is too much.

Such an exaggerated stereotyped picture would be fine in a lampooning satire, but this is a serious book. The writing is clear and crisp, and the three main characters are very believeable, as could have been the story as a whole.

Despite this flaw of stereotyping all homosexuals as effeminate, this is an interesting novel. Homosexuality versus heterosexuality, because of our serious cancer-like exploding population, is a valid debate. This might start people thinking.

A. E. Smith

VENUS PLUS "X" by Theodore Sturgeon, Pyramid Books, New York, 1960.

One of the things most significant about science fiction, a major literary phenomenon of the twentieth century, is that intrinsically it does not deal with the issues of the future but of

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