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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (Dover Value Editions) - H.G. Wells
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (Dover Value Editions)
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It all began with the research of two scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, into the principles of growth in living matter. The fruit of their labors was a substance known as Herakleophorbia IV, but their own private term for it was "The Food of the Gods" because of its very special... show more
It all began with the research of two scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, into the principles of growth in living matter. The fruit of their labors was a substance known as Herakleophorbia IV, but their own private term for it was "The Food of the Gods" because of its very special properties.Their tests produced a day-old chicken as big as a buzzard. And when the substance was consumed by rats, they grew bigger than horses. Then they started feeding the "food" to human babies...
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780486448466 (0486448460)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
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this is the second one of his books that I've read this year, because I decided to give his books another chance,tried to read a few of his books before and just couldn't get into them at all,did even like the movies they made from them not the new ones or the original black and white which I love t...
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4.0 The Food Of The Gods
In The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, two scientists (Redwood & Bensington) discover a ‘food’ which causes any creature that eats it to expand to gigantic proportions. Things go wrong at their experimental farm due to the incompetence of the couple charged with managing it. Exposed to th...
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