H. G. Wells ~5 hr read

Two absent-minded scientists concoct a growth substance they call Herakleophorbia, and when it escapes the experimental farm, giant wasps, giant rats, and giant children begin to remake the world.

H. G. Wells's 1904 novel is a landmark of early science fiction, at once satirical and visionary. Bold, prophetic, richly imagined. Read it for the father of modern SF on the theme of runaway change, a food that makes all it touches gigantic, and the collision between a new race of giants and the small old world.

In its time

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

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).