Frank Belknap Long 2 hr 48 min read

On the travel-strip, a non-sex-privileged woman stumbles into Teleman's arms and whispers strange, dangerous words: 'It is breaking down, the love instincts are returning.'

Frank Belknap Long's 1961 novel is a lurid dystopian social-SF tale of a rigidly sex-controlled future society cracking apart. Provocative, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story where forbidden desire begins to break a coldly regimented world wide open.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 48 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).