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Country United States Publication type Magazine Originally published April 1991 Genre Science Fiction | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date April 1991 Published in Omni | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations Nebula Award for Best Short Story Works by Terry Bisson Bears Discover Fire and, Bears Discover Fire, Talking Man, Fire on the Mountain, Saint Leibowitz and the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They re made out of meat
"They're Made Out of Meat" is a Nebula Award-nominated short story by Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival.
Contents
- They re made out of meat
- they re made out of meat by terry bisson
- Theyre Made out of Meat 2005
- Music
- References
The two characters are intelligent beings capable of traveling faster than light, on a mission to "contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe." Bisson's stage directions represent them as "two lights moving like fireflies among the stars" on a projection screen. They converse briefly on their bizarre discovery of carbon-based life, which they refer to incredulously as "thinking meat". They agree to "erase the records and forget the whole thing", marking the Solar System "unoccupied".
The story was collected in the 1993 anthology Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, and has circulated widely on the Internet, which Bisson finds "flattering". It has been quoted in cognitive, cosmological, and philosophical scholarship.
they re made out of meat by terry bisson
They're Made out of Meat (2005)
In 2005, Stephen O'Regan wrote and directed a live film adaptation starring Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey. The film was made as a final project for the New York Film Academy. The main action takes place inside of a diner full of teenagers. The music for the film was scored by Bob Reynolds.
Music
In 2015, musical producer Jose Hoffman created a song based on the story.