boom-children

Updated: July 19, 2025

Now it chanced in the days when Caterham was campaigning against the Boom-children before the General Election that was amidst the most tragic and terrible circumstances to bring him into power, that the giant Princess, that Serene Highness whose early nutrition had played so great a part in the brilliant career of Doctor Winkles, had come from the kingdom of her father to England, on an occasion that was deemed important.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Along one wall, above the dado, ran a crowded array of black-framed photographs and photogravures, showing his son and Cossar's sons and others of the Boom-children at various ages and amidst various surroundings. Even young Caddles' vacant visage had its place in that collection.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth