Books with author H G (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Wells

THE FOOD OF THE GODS is an early science fiction classic by H.G. Wells. Two British scientists have discovered a remarkable substance which accelerates the growth rates for plant and animal life far beyond normal. Experiments result in giant chickens and promise to wipe out hunger, but soon vermin eat the food and grow into giants, threatening humanity. Even more disturbing are the people who eat the food and become giants.

What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms – but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and wasps so large one could hear them half a mile off. In the end it becomes a tragedy: several hundred children around the world had been given this "food of the gods" and grow to a height of around forty feet. The first giant babies are revealed and for the first time humanity has to contend with the existence of a new race of giant people. How humanity deals with this shocking new creation is revealed in "The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth".