They 're Made Out of Meat - wikipedia They 're Made Out of Meat `` They 're Made Out of Meat '' Author Terry Bisson Country United States Language English Genre ( s ) Science fiction Published in OMNI Publication type Magazine Publication date April 1991 They 're Made Out of Meat ( 2009 ) by Alexander S. Peak, inspired by the Terry Bisson story. `` They 're Made Out of Meat '' is a 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. 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. Contents 1 Film adaptations 1.1 They 're Made out of Meat ( 2005 ) 2 Music 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Film adaptations 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. See also Carbon chauvinism Fables for Robots ( A collection of humorous short stories by Stanisław Lem where humans ( and organic life in general ) are looked upon in similar way ) References Jump up ^ Bisson, Terry ( April 1991 ). `` They 're Made Out of Meat ''. OMNI. Jump up ^ 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. Jump up ^ `` 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. ^ Jump up to : Bisson, Terry. `` They 're Made out of Meat ''. Terry Bisson SF Story Showcase. Retrieved 2009 - 12 - 10. Jump up ^ Bisson, Terry ( November 1993 ). Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories ( 1st ( Hardcover ) ed. ). New York, NY : Tor. ISBN 978 - 0 - 312 - 85411 - 9. Jump up ^ 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. Jump up ^ 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. CS1 maint : Extra text : editors list ( link ) Jump up ^ McGinn, Colin ( May 1999 ). Mysterious Flame : Conscious Minds in a Material World. New York, NY : Basic Books. ISBN 0 - 465 - 01422 - 4. Jump up ^ https://soundcloud.com/bobreynolds/sets/theyre-made-out-of-meat External links `` They 're Made Out of Meat '' - the text of the short story. Short film adaptation. 2010 Short film adaptation. 2006 / 2011 Short film adaptation. Short film adaptation 2012 production as a radio play ( WNYC ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=They%27re_Made_Out_of_Meat&oldid=847803747 '' Categories : 1991 short stories Artificial intelligence in fiction Brain -- computer interfacing in fiction Fiction portraying humans as aliens Short stories by Terry Bisson Science fiction theatre Works originally published in Omni ( magazine ) Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Extra text : editors list Talk Contents About Wikipedia Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 27 June 2018, at 21 : 52 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: in the short story they're made out of meat who are the main characters
Answer: 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."