The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: Wells, Herbert George

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B088LH221D
• ISBN13: 9798637204984
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Boom food forever.

“Bigger isn't necessarily better.” Dr. Ruth Westheimer. This is one of HG’s more popular books. This was made into the movie “The Food of the Gods” (1976) and is closer to the book “Night of the Lepus” (1972), which was an early form of Rabbit Transit. As with all of HG’s work, this is more of a social commentary than it is a sci-fi story. A scientist finds a way or food to keep growth from being inhibited. It gets out of hand in several stories; each tied together with a single theme. The first part of the story is simple: “how you deal with big chickens.” However, it gets a little more complex when it is “how do you deal” with big people. HG shows how England is a stagnant society in the least changes that upset the status quo and need to be squelched. As you can see, he split this up into several books; each book is a stand-alone story yet counts on the story before it. As you read this story, you must think about how I react if I had to deal with giants, how I react if I were the giant. Hopefully, we come away from the story with a better understanding of how society works and /or can work. "He was no more than a great black outline against the starry sky, a great black outline that threatened with one mighty gesture the firmament of heaven and all its multitude of stars." Was Dr. Ruth and her assumption correct?