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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* The [[Trope Namer]] is the 1950 story "To Serve Man" by [[Damon Knight]], which was adapted for television during the original run of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', as noted below. |
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* In ''The Awakeners'' by [[Sheri S. Tepper]], humans are allowed to immigrate to the planet Northshore after the government essentially makes a [[Deal with the Devil]] with a native species (that resemble human sized, talking birds). {{spoiler|When a person dies they are fed a liquid, The Tears of Viranel, which supposedly helps them on into the afterlife. In reality this liquid turns them into walking zombies, and tenderises their flesh so the native species can eat them.}} Um, yeah... |
* In ''The Awakeners'' by [[Sheri S. Tepper]], humans are allowed to immigrate to the planet Northshore after the government essentially makes a [[Deal with the Devil]] with a native species (that resemble human sized, talking birds). {{spoiler|When a person dies they are fed a liquid, The Tears of Viranel, which supposedly helps them on into the afterlife. In reality this liquid turns them into walking zombies, and tenderises their flesh so the native species can eat them.}} Um, yeah... |
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* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Silver Chair'' the children are invited to stay in the giants' castle, where they will be "part of the great Autumn Feast in their honor". The older female giants fawn and tut-tut over their charges. Then they discover a giant-sized cookbook in the kitchen... it lists Man as a delicacy, albeit with very little actual meat. The cookbook goes so far as to list Marshwiggle ([[Non-Human Sidekick]] Puddleglum), claiming that while edible, they are very stringy and have a "muddy flavor". |
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Silver Chair'' the children are invited to stay in the giants' castle, where they will be "part of the great Autumn Feast in their honor". The older female giants fawn and tut-tut over their charges. Then they discover a giant-sized cookbook in the kitchen... it lists Man as a delicacy, albeit with very little actual meat. The cookbook goes so far as to list Marshwiggle ([[Non-Human Sidekick]] Puddleglum), claiming that while edible, they are very stringy and have a "muddy flavor". |
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* A number of aliens in [[John Scalzi]]'s ''Old Man's War'' universe like to eat humans, most notably the Rraey. This tends to be the main issue with human-Rraey relations. |
* A number of aliens in [[John Scalzi]]'s ''Old Man's War'' universe like to eat humans, most notably the Rraey. This tends to be the main issue with human-Rraey relations. |
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** The Rraey have ''cooking shows'' about how to serve humans. |
** The Rraey have ''cooking shows'' about how to serve humans. |
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* In ''[[Parasite Pig]]'' by [[William Sleator]], there are [[Giant Enemy Crab|crablike]] aliens that have a whole gourmet tradition for cooking humans and similar creatures (complete with treating them as guests and fattening them up), even though they don't have space travel and have to wait for humans to come to their home planet. (In that [[The Verse|verse]], [[Casual Interstellar Travel]] exists, but Earth-inhabiting humans don't have access to it, and it generally doesn't seem as if the crabs in question do, either.) |
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* The [[Eldritch Abomination|godlike Managers]] [[Sealed Evil in a Can|imprisoned beneath the showgrounds]] in ''[[The Pilo Family Circus]]'' consider the entire human race little more than an exquisite but miniscule delicacy. |
* The [[Eldritch Abomination|godlike Managers]] [[Sealed Evil in a Can|imprisoned beneath the showgrounds]] in ''[[The Pilo Family Circus]]'' consider the entire human race little more than an exquisite but miniscule delicacy. |
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* The main reason the devils in ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' have any interest in people whatsoever is their oh-so-tasty souls. |
* The main reason the devils in ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' have any interest in people whatsoever is their oh-so-tasty souls. |
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