How To Serve Man!

Emerald would add more flavor to this crude and simple recipe on "How to serve man!" Any rogue, who frequently pickpockets, has most likely come across this at one time or another. Most would give a little chuckle when they first read it's contents; but few probably do not know it's deep meaning. Developers do not simply throw in random books for no reason at all. They love to insert little eggs here and there that only a handful of players will know their true meaning.

Admittedly, the Twilight Zone may be the most widely-known form of this story, but it is by no means the earliest. This episode of the Twilight Zone originally aired in 1962. But twelve years earlier, in 1950, Damon Knight published the short story "To Serve Man". In 1953 (still nearly a decade before the episode aired), C. S. Lewis published The Silver Chair, which contains an analogous book and play on words by a race of giants. The Silver Chair is one of the books in the widely-read The Chronicles of Narnia series.

In one of the most famous Twilight Zone episodes, a race of aliens known as the Kanamits land on Earth and promise to be nothing but helpful to the cause of humanity. Initially wary of the intentions of such a highly advanced race, even the most skeptical humans are convinced when their code-breakers begin to translate one of the Kanamit's books, with the seemingly innocuous title, "To Serve Man." Sharing their advanced technology, the aliens quickly solve all of Earth's greatest woes; eradicating hunger, disease, the need for warfare. Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet,Mars, which is supposedly a paradise. All is not well, however, when a code-breaker discovers the Kanamits’ true intentions. Their book, "To Serve Man", is a cookbook.

This reference has also found itself in other pop cultures such as Madagascar, The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror I, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Futurama. It was also mentioned in Warcraft III where a troll witch doctor delivers the famous punch line.

You just have to love the easter eggs in this game.