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Enlargement (in fiction)
speculative fiction
fairy tales
fantasy
science fiction
mushrooms
psychedelic
magic
size-changing rays
Shapeshifting
Shrink ray
Square–cube law
"Mushrooms in Wonderland"
"Miniaturization"
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
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