The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: LeClue
Category: EBooks
Buy New: $0.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 93998
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0013S8866
Publication Date: February 11, 2008
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Product Description
Two scientists conduct research into the growth process of living things. The result is a chemical food called Herakleophorbia - that accelerates and extends the process past its normal cycle. Setting up an experimental farm, the pair test the substance on chicks, causing them to grow into giants.Unfortunately, the slovenly couple hired to feed and monitor the chicks allow other creatures to eat the food, and soon giant rats, wasps and worms are terrorizing the countryside.
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 Prophetic Examination of Scientific Ethics May 31, 2006
K. Wilson (Chicago, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As one of Wells lesser known novels "The Food of the Gods" is often out of print and difficult to find. Despite its obscure status, it represents an early examination of scientific ethics that helped define an important genre in science fiction.
As a result of research into the growth curves of living matter, two scientists invent a seemingly miraculous substance called Herakleophorbia IV, nicknamed "The Food of the Gods."
Its consumption causes accelerated uninterrupted growth in all forms of life. Its creators' lack of forethought and ineptitude results in terrifying consequences when the substance escapes the bounds of the experiment and is ingested by unintended creatures.
This early masterpiece was a groundbreaking conjecture of many of the real issues now confronting scientists about genetically engineered foods and ethical considerations in scientific experimentation.
 The Book of the Gods April 8, 2005
T. Elliott (Michigan)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, probably not, but its very close. Personally, I am a very big fan of H.G. Wells. Although lesser known, this is Wells at his finest. It is a fast story that changes points of view almost every chapter, and takes place over the course of 23 years. It is a story about the changeing of the tide and alteration of our reality. You get to expierience changes as small as the transition from horse and buggy to moter car to changes as large as the change from big to small through the eyes of a convict to a farmer to a scientist, and various people in bettween. I feel the need to relate this to the show 24. It has a simmilar feeling of some unknown threat drawing apon you gradually. This is not a book, its an expieriance. Too bad its out of print though. If you still want to read it after everybodys ran out, then it can still be found in a few, best novels by HG Wells books (thats were I read it), and dont forget to check the library. In addition I would like to recomend any Wells book, they are all fantastic, and I consider him the most brilliant author of the 19th or 20th centuries.
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