Loved itI have to bump this one up to S now. The last third of the book is just extremely strong. I was really impressed by it.
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Food of the Gods (1900)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)". The novel, which has had various B-movie adaptations, is about a group of scientists that invents food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults.
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- 9781473218017
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- 300 pages
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Loved itthere's lots of other ones food of the Gods all seminar