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Line 2: A short story about two space explorers happening upon a new alien race. However, much to their disgust, they find that they're... meaty. Three guesses as to what this race is. Written by Terry Bisson and nominated for a [[Nebula Award]]. Can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20100209131234/http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html here]. Enjoy a short film adaptation of it here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE ~~here~~low resolution (with credits and intro)]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ high resolution version (no credits or intro)] ---- === This short story provides examples of: ===▼ ▲~~===~~ {{tropelist\|This short story provides examples of: ~~===~~}} * [[An Aesop]]: Overlaps with [[Fantastic Aesop]]. * [[Easy Amnesia]]: The aliens are surprised that meat can think, even so they are able to "smooth out" the thinking part of the meat (the human brain), making the time they probed seem like a dream. Although if it doesn't work, their test subjects will be dismissed as crazy. * [[Energy Beings]] -: The meaties are literally the only race that die as meat. One race starts as meat, but eventually "ascend". * [[Fantastic Racism]] -: In the end, the explorers decide to strike the record of encountering the meaties and declare this sector empty, believing that first contact would be extremely awkward. As one of them puts it, "What are we going to say to them? 'Hey, meat, how's it going?'?" * [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: Meat cannot do that, because it's confined to [[Techno Babble\|C - space]] and therefore limited by the speed of light. * [[Humans Through Alien Eyes\|Meat Through an Explorer's Eyes]] * [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]]: And ''just plain weird'', to boot. * [[Invisible Aliens]] -: they've done some abductions, but wiped the abductees' memory. * [[Squick]] -: In-universe, to the explorers. * [[Starfish Aliens]]: Apparently, all known aliens are [[Energy Beings]]: there is ''one'' race that undergoes a "meat" stage, but ascends late in life, and another that is partially meat. ** The explorers certainly consider the meat this: meat communicate and entertain themselves by squirting air through their meat and flapping their meat at each other, which meat shouldn't be doing '''because it's meat.''' Line 20 ⟶ 21: [[Category:Nebula Award]] [[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] [[Category:Theyre Made Out of Meat]]▼ [[Category:Literature]] ▲[[Category:~~Theyre~~They're Made Out of Meat]]