Friday, March 23, 2018

Fantasy Food in Science Fiction - A Bitter Pill?

Now that romance and erotica got the juices flowing, we introduce another flavour - science fiction:
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth ... chronicles the creation of a substance called Herakleophorbia, by two men named Bensington and Redwood. Later dubbing their creation “Boomfood,” they soon discover that it can cause some animals and plants to grow to an enormous size.

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The Bert I. Gordon Film


Perhaps, Soylent Green is more memorable to some of us. 

The film was based on a book.

Set in New York, Make Room! Make Room! imagines a world where all natural resources are all but gone. The world is overcrowded. Water is rationed. Work is scarce. Those who can work are still incredibly poor, forced to share tiny rooms. Those who can’t work survive – just about – on benefits, often supplemented by crime. Food is almost always synthetic or manufactured from everything from seaweed to soya and lentils – which is where the name Soylent comes from.

Arthur C Clarke had one too, a little earlier. 



In the anthology, there is a short story called "The Food of the Gods". 

... in which human meat is presented as the most nutritious and most delicious food of all. The theory that man has evolved as he is because of cannibalism in the ancient past was also suggested.



Your absolute go-to for fantasy foods in science fiction works: Food in Science Fiction.

Upcoming posts offer a nourishing soup of food fiction from around Earth.

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