___---All men are sterile---___in the world of few decades hence, as the result of an ill-advised atmospheric test. All that is, except for 0.005% of the male population, the "seedies", who are kept in isolated clinical redoubts. Here thea are milked of the precious fertile seed on whitch the human life debends. They are hated, for obvious reasons, by the sterile "randies" and "queers" who comprise the two main male divisions of society outside the seedies`sealed world. Even so, each seedy must periodically venture out for a day to experience at first hand the frenetic, debauched life of the majority of mankind. This is te story of one such day in the life of Tim, a fifteen-year-old seedy. Outside, he is soon dangerously involved -- with drug.taking gang of "queers", an evil pusher and the pusher`s sister, anxious to get pregnant while she can. But, even though his life is at stake, Tim cannot oblige her. For seedies, though fertile, do not feel sexual desire... This thought-provoking, adventurous novel marks the debut on the science fiction scene of a striking and original new talent.
