The Food of the Gods – In a venture to solve the problem of world hunger, two Scientists work to develop very large chickens. They discover the ultimate growth food and turn all of the creatures around into giants. Inadvertently they create a new evolution of humans that become giants. What begins with the most altruistic of motives rapidly becomes a world in chaos.

This book begins as a farce and a satire with scathing views of naive scientists, craven politicians and the populace as ignorant rubes, and rapidly becomes deadly serious as giant wasps and giant rats become mortal threats to any and everything. In the midst of this, human babies, having fed off of this new super food begin their growths toward super sizes. A race of giants is created and the little people must learn how to cope. Or not….

Book One

Chapter the First – The Discovery of the Food

Chapter the Second.—The Experimental Farm.

Part Two

Chapter the Second.—The Experimental Farm.—(Continued.)

Chapter the Third.—The Giant Rats.

Part Three

Chapter the Third.—The Giant Rats. (Continued.)

Chapter the Fourth.—The Giant Children.

Part Four

Chapter the Fourth.—The Giant Children. (Continued.)

Chapter the Fifth.—The Minimificence of Mr. Bensington.

Book Two: The Food In The Village.

Chapter the First.—The Coming of the Food.

Part Five

Chapter the First.—The Coming of the Food. (Continued.)

Chapter the Second.—The Brat Gigantic.

Part Six

Book Three: The Harvest Of The Food.

Chapter the First.—The Altered World.

Part Seven

Chapter the Second.—The Giant Lovers.

Chapter the Third—Young Caddles in London.

Part Eight

Chapter the Third.—Young Caddles in London. (Continued.)

Chapter the Fourth.—Redwood’s Two Days.

Part Nine

Chapter the Fourth.—Redwood’s Two Days. (Continued.)

Chapter the Fifth—The Giant Leaguer.

Part Ten

Chapter the Fifth—The Giant Leaguer. (Concluded.)

This edition reproduces the 1903 serial magazine edition as published in The Cosmopolitan and includes all 46 illustrations drawn by Cyrus Cuneo (1879-1916).