Dan Goodman wrote:
> Jerry Avins wrote:

...

>> "How to Serve Man" is the title of a
>> 1962 science fiction story by Lloyd Bochner, Richard Kiel and Susan
>> Cummings in which a book of that title, written in an alien language,
>> turned out to be a cookbook.
>
> Correction. From the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base
> http://isfdb.org:
> Title: To Serve Man
> Author: Damon Knight
> Year: 1950
> Type: SHORTFICTION

I wondered why I hadn't heard of any of the "authors". I looked it up to
make sure I wasn't spewing garbage and spewed someone else's garbage
instead. My bad! The date is more reasonable, too.

I guess Bochner et.al. wrote the TV script.

Jerry
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