They're Made Out of Meat

"They're Made Out of Meat"
Short story by Terry Bisson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Publication
Published inOMNI
Publication typeMagazine
Publication dateApril 1991

"They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by American writer Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI.[1] It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation.[2] A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival.[3]

The story was collected in the 1993 anthology Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories,[4] and has circulated widely on the Internet, which Bisson found "flattering".[5] It has been quoted in cognitive, cosmological, and philosophical scholarship.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Bisson, Terry (April 1991). "They're Made Out of Meat". OMNI.
  2. ^ Bisson, Terry. "They're Made out of Meat (play)". Terry Bisson SF Story Showcase. Archived from the original on 2008-07-02. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  3. ^ "Science Fiction Short Film Festival Winners Announced". Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. 2006-02-09. Archived from the original on 2006-05-21.
  4. ^ Bisson, Terry (November 1993). Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories (1st (Hardcover) ed.). New York, NY: Tor. ISBN 978-0-312-85411-9.
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  6. ^ Boden, Margaret A. (2006). "16.v.d". Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press. p. 1386. ISBN 0-19-929238-8. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  7. ^ Wolff, Milo (2003). "55: Cosmology, the Quantum Universe, and Electron Spin". In Richard L. Amoroso; et al. (eds.). Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale. Fundamental Theories of Physics. Vol. 126. Netherlands: Springer. pp. 517–524. doi:10.1007/0-306-48052-2_55. ISBN 978-1-4020-0885-6.
  8. ^ McGinn, Colin (May 1999). Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-01422-4.