What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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► UNSOLVED: One specific book > Short story. Describes a night of ordinary life of a family of 3. Plot twist at the end that the food they had for dinner is actually human and the family is alien creatures that treat human as livestocks.

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message 1: by Victorlohk (new)

Victorlohk | 1 comments I didn't read it personally but read about it somewhere so the details might be off.

For 80% of the story it's just ordinary slice of life stuff about a ordinary family. The child was back from shcool and chatted with his/her mother about his/her time at school. Later the father was back from work, while the mother is cooking, the father took off his jacket and helped the child with his/her homework, while drinking beer. Then they had dinner together. Just standard family life.

Then at the end, when they were cleaning up the tiny bones of the food they had for dinner, it was revealed that those were actually bones of human, and the family is some sort of alien giant colonizers that took humans as livestock.


message 2: by Michele (new)

Michele | 2488 comments Do you remember where you read about it -- for example was it a website that recommends new stories, or one that discusses classic sci-fi? Do you remember when you read about it?


message 3: by Gareth (new)

Gareth D. | 7 comments Could be ‘The Ethical Treatment Of Meat’ by Claude Lalumière, which I read in World Science Fiction Volume #1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


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