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  • The Food of the Gods

  • By: H. G. Wells
  • Narrated by: Alan Munro
  • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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By: H. G. Wells
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Summary

This story has been retold many times in many forms since it was first published in 1904.

Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth and serious illnesses.

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