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They're Made Out of Meat the story. They're Made Out of Meat "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 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. The two characters are intelligent beings capable of traveling faster