How long does it take to read The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth?
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 194 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)". The novel, which has had various B-movie adaptations, is about a group of scientists that invents food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults.
Subjects: Fiction, Giants, Growth factors, Food supply, Science fiction, Agriculture
