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* ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' series has an invading alien ecology [[Terraform|transforming Earth]] into a world where humanity will not only serve as food, [[Eat the Dog|but will welcome it]].
* In David Weber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground'' (a novel based on the ''Starfire'' tabletop wargame), on every human-colonized planet the Arachnids take over, they eat the locals.
* The Martians in [[H. G. Wells]]' ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' areinvade herethe forEarth in order to colonize it, presumably because Mars is no longer habitable or their population has become too large, the foodEarth being the first choice for this reason. As [[Science Marches On|medical science at the time]] (or at least Wells' understanding of it) hadbelieved the digestive system actually transformingtransformed food into blood to keep the body moving, the Martians had no actual digestive system, and "fed" by directly transfusing human blood into their system. So this is [[Older Than Radio]].
* They actually have the cookbook in real life, inspired by the [[Twilight Zone]] episode.
* This trope is one of the main themes in Michel Faber's ''Under The Skin''. The book plays with the reader's perceptions as {{spoiler|the aliens call themselves "humans" and refer to Earthlings as "vodsels". The protagonist's job is to pick up human hitchhikers while disguised as a voluptuous human female, and deliver the meat to a farm to be processed and sent to the home planet for the rich to eat as a delicacy.}}
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* In the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book ''Attack Of The Jack-O'-Lanters'', people are reported as missing around Halloween in a fairly background event. The protagonists meet two new friends who help them scare a couple of bullies, and aren't particularely phased when the duo turn out to be aliens. As they escort them back to their spaceship, the aliens reveal that [[Cruel Twist Ending|they ate all those people and that they will continue to return to Earth to do exactly that, before taking off in their spaceship]].
* In Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections]]'', Skeeve is in disguise in a Pervish restaurant and asks for "something from [his home dimension of] Klah", and is brought what appears to be an entire cooked Klahd/human; it turns out it's a fake constructed out of other kinds of meat.
 
 
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