Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, two unremarkable men of science, devise a substance that makes living things grow without stopping. Their experimental farm leaks it into the countryside, and soon Kent is troubled by enormous wasps and rats, while a generation of children fed on the stuff grows to forty feet and finds that ordinary England has no room for it.
Wells at his most satirical, turning a scientific romance into a fable about progress and the small minds that resist it. Download the free EPUB.