Jerry Avins > writes:

> "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.


How can three people write a story? The basic idea is the product
of one person, so it seems that if anyone else is involved, espec-
ially in a work that short, they couldn't help but dilute it or drag
it off in unintended directions. "Too many cooks," and all that.



Geoff

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed,
Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why,
God? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's
just something about you that ****es me off.'" -- Stephen King