The food of the gods and how it came to earth
by H.G. Wells
First published 1900 · English · 300 pages
- Novels
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
Two scientists develop a substance that makes living things grow to enormous size. When it escapes from their experimental farm, giant plants, insects and animals appear, and eventually children raised on the food grow into giants themselves. The comic and often alarming tale follows the efforts of ordinary people to cope with, and often resist, the changes. Behind its inventive premise lies a reflection on progress, fear of the new, and the clash between generations.
Quotes
Change played in its new fashion with the world for twenty years. To most men the new things came little by little and day by day, remarkably enough, but not so abruptly as to overwhelm.
They seem to spend their silly little lives getting in each other's way," said the eldest boy. "Rights and laws and regulations and rascalities: it's like a game of spellicans….
She found herself trembling violently. The colour left her face. "I did not know," she said. "Do you mean — " He waited for her. "Do you mean there are other — giants?" He repeated. "Did you not know?"