Guess Who?

             They’re Made of Meat is a short story by Terry Bisson that I had read back in the 6^th grade. I’ve recently read it again. Since I really don’t real want to blog about the book I’m reading again, I’m going to blog about this short story. I strongly recommend reading this if you like new perspectives on things. Also it is completely dialogue, so if you’re having trouble figuring that out, this might help.

                They’re Made of Meat is a dialogue between two characters in outer space who were sent to research some alien species to see if they could communicate and make relationships with. But they are appalled and disgusted when they find that the species is completely made of meat; no carbon-based body parts, no electron plasma brains, they are simply made of meat. Meat that thinks, dreams, makes machines, and even communicates by flapping their meat together to make sound. They are so abhorred by this species that they pretended they never discovered them and left them to be lonely in the universe.

WARNING YOU MAY WANT TO READ THE ACTUAL STORY BEFORE READNG THE NEXT PARAGRAPH. IT WILL RUIN THE MAGIC. So here's the link.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.shtml

Guess what the intelligent species they found was? Us. The whole time I was reading it for the first time, I believed it was two humans talking. Turns out it was two aliens talking about humans. And all the things they described us as, is actually true. Our vocal chords are just meat flapping together and we are completely made out of meat. Those things may seem very odd for aliens who are made of rock or who knows what (I’m not saying I believe in aliens but if there were….). I found They’re Made of Meat intriguing and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes short stories.

Reading Log

Prodigy by Marie Lu

2 hours 30-42%

9/15/13