Art by Frank R. Paul for “The Nth Man” by Homer Eon Flint in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1928).
“This theme has been speculated on before by scientists and by many fiction writers, but no one has had the courage to propose such a giant as the one we meet in this story. And it is all excellent science, and all not quite so impossible as it sounds at first. Everything in this world is relative. There have been tremendously large monsters on our earth, as is well attested by the fossils of ancient animals, the skeletons of which are in our museums. Growth, after all, is a matter of surroundings, food and gland action. How far it may be stimulated, no one knows. . .” [From the Editor’s Note]
Art by Frank R. Paul for “The Nth Man” by Homer Eon Flint in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1928).
“This theme has been speculated on before by scientists and by many fiction writers, but no one has had the courage to propose such a giant as the one we meet in this story. And it is all excellent science, and all not quite so impossible as it sounds at first. Everything in this world is relative. There have been tremendously large monsters on our earth, as is well attested by the fossils of ancient animals, the skeletons of which are in our museums. Growth, after all, is a matter of surroundings, food and gland action. How far it may be stimulated, no one knows. . .” [From the Editor’s Note]