H. G. Wells ~6 hr read

A scientist's growth-accelerating 'Food of the Gods' escapes the laboratory, and soon giant wasps, giant vines, and giant children begin to remake the world.

This Dutch edition presents H. G. Wells's 1904 'The Food of the Gods,' a satirical scientific romance of gigantism and social upheaval. Imaginative, provocative, foundational. Read it for a classic Wells tale of an invention that grows utterly beyond its makers' control, in Dutch.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).