A miraculous growth compound escapes the laboratory and produces giant plants, vermin, and children who threaten the ordinary world. Wells's fable of change too big to contain.
Books mentioned in The Food of the Gods (1)
The Mighty Atom by Marie Corelli: “One afternoon Redwood came home from his laboratory to find his unfortunate wife deep in the fascinating pages of _The Mighty Atom_, and at the sight of him she put the book aside and ran violently forward and burst into tears on his shoulder.”