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4 pages, ebook
First published April 1, 1991
“We’re supposed to talk to meat.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."This Nebula-nominated short story is a conversation between two aliens, one of which CANNOT BELIEVE that intelligent beings can be made out of ... meat. It’s very short and funny, but with a bite to it. I love the creativity of the concept.
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal!"
"They're born meat and they die meat."