SOURCES:The Food Of The Gods by H. G. Wells

DESCRIPTION: “Ever and again some chance glare would pick out and display this group or that of tall and powerful forms, the Giants from Sunderland clothed in overlapping metal plates, and the others clad in leather, in woven rope or in woven metal, as their conditions had determined. They sat amidst or rested their hands upon, or stood erect among machines and weapons as mighty as themselves, and all their faces, as they came and went from visible to invisible, had steadfast eyes...” (The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells)

NOTES: The humans grown large by eating Herakleophorbia (the Food of the Gods) are no different than smaller humans. If they are infants they will suffer all the usual pains and growing problems. Only in the end do they seem to have a maturity that we lack, looking to the stars as their destiny.

HISTORY: Wells created a whole sub-genre of horror-SF with the giant human motif. Sometimes the giant folk are insane and destroy a lot of buildings. Usually they are mistreated by regular humans. An obvious inspiration for Wells is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Edgar Rice Burroughs would use similar ideas in "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" (See Joog) and Tarzan and the Ant Men.

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