A review by gengelcox
To Serve Man by Damon Knight

4.0

This is a famous story—or at least, a famous Twilight Zone episode, so most people know the story. I haven’t seen the TV episode in years, but I still knew the last line of this story. That said, it’s a longer story that you expect. The beginning is all about how the main character doesn’t like the aliens very much for their appearance, but comes around to believing that have altruism as a goal, unlike his friend who suspects their motives throughout the story. The two are language experts, U.N. translators, and eventually they steal one of the alien’s books and translate the title, which is where the story title comes from. It’s a clever story, even with the twist ending, which doesn’t necessarily resolve things, even if it helps explain the aliens.