Do you want to read some early Soviet sci-fi? Of course you do.
A scientist's discovery of a ray that increases the growth and reproduction rate of animals leads to disaster when it is unwisely taken out of the laboratory in an attempt to feed the country. The Fatal Eggs is obviously a satirical metaphor for the experience of Russia, but I don't think I really appreciated it. Communism is something that should have been cautiously experimented with, but was seized upon by cruder and more urgent men? At least I can appreciate the detail of early revolutionary Russia, and science fiction from a time when scientists accidentally creating monsters was still a fairly fresh idea.
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