## The Carnivore (1953) by Katherine MacLean

* Author: u/occasional-redditor *
* URL: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Carnivore
* Score: 20

* Created: 2017-05-24T17:37:16

### Post:

[Link to content](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Carnivore)

### Comments:

> **u/MultipartiteMind** [+2]  (a day later)
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> "Herbivores may be eaten by carnivores, but predators NEED their prey.  Y'know what 'omnivorous' means?  ALL-CONSUMING, [censored]."
> 
> ...This makes me want (if I had more time) to try to write a story about 'All-Eaters' and the horror of coexisting/warring carnivore and herbivore spacefaring civilisations as they failed to fit within the civilisations' expectations/framework.

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