H. G. Wells

The Food of the Gods (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Food of the Gods is a fantasy novel by a classic of the world science fiction Herbert George Wells. Two English scientists manage to create a unique substance which, when added to an ordinary food, makes young animals grow at a remarkable speed. At first, they experimented on chickens and calves. Happy with their discovery, scientists already estimate their profit. But firstly, giant chickens spread across England due to oversight. Then law obedient citizens are attacked by giant rats and wasps which tried "the food of the gods". But these "side effects" are overcome eventually. But what to do with scientists' children, their friends and acquaintances who were fed with "the food of the gods"? Children grow at a speed that strikes the imagination, and not only physically but also morally. The world is afraid of giants who are ready to give away gratuitously their power and brain to a mankind that created them. Who will be future leaders - young giants or human pygmies?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Maxi
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965448353
• Artikelnr.: 54725808

Autorenporträt

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even a book on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the world wide web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.