List of extraterrestrials in fiction

List of extraterrestrials in fiction

This is a list of extraterrestrial species that have appeared in various works of fiction featuring aliens.

List of named species

Works of fiction featuring unnamed alien races

*John Carpenter's "The Thing"
*Arthur C. Clarke's "" (unseen designers of the Monoliths)
*Hal Clement's "Needle" and "Through the Eye of a Needle"
*Fritz Leiber's "The Wanderer"
*Stanisław Lem's "The Invincible"
*John Lymington's "Night of the Big Heat"
*Satyajit Ray's "The Alien"
*Satyajit Ray's "Banku Babu's Friend"
*Jagadananda Roy's "Shukra Bhraman" ("Travels to Jupiter")
*Carl Sagan's "Contact"
*Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
*Steven Spielberg's "E.T."
*Steven Spielberg's "Taken"
*""
*"" (telepaths)
*"The Body Snatchers" (pod people) and its film adaptations
*"Cocoon" and ""
*"I Come in Peace"
*"Independence Day"
*"Super Mario Land" and successing games (Tatanga's species)
*"ToHeart2" (Lucy Maria Misora/Ruuko)
*"War of the Worlds"
*"Prey"
*"Signs (film)"
*"Star Wars"
*"Halo"

ee also

*List of films featuring extraterrestrials
*List of extraterrestrials in fiction by type
*Cat-like aliens
*Races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
*List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens
*Index of fictional species
*List of fictional robots
*List of fictional planets
*List of species in fantasy fiction
*Alien races in the Stargate universe
*Xenobiology
*Cryptozoology
*List of Star Trek races

References

*Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers and Beth Meacham: "Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials"
*Stanley Schmidt: "Aliens and Alien Societies" (Writer's Digest)
*Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart: ""
* Cliff Pickover. 2003 "The Science of Aliens" New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07315-8


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