Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

"Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials" is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe. It contains his visualizations of different alien species from various works of science fiction.

pecies & source

*Abyormenite - Hal Clement's "Cycle of Fire" (1957)
*Athshean - Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest" (1975)
*Black Cloud (species) - Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud"
*Chulplex - Avram Davidson's "Masters of the Maze"
*Cinruss - James White's Sector General series
*Cryer - Joseph Green's "Conscience Interplanetary"
*Cygnan - Donald Moffitt's "The Jupiter Theft"
*Cygnostik - Michael Bishop's "A Little Knowledge" (1977)
*Czill - Jack L. Chalker's Well World series
*Demon (species) - Keith Laumer's "A Plague of Demons" (1977)
*Demu (species) - F. M. Busby's "To Cage a Man" (1973)
*Dextran (species) - David J. Lake's "The Right Hand of Dextra"
*Dilbian - Gordon R. Dickson's "Spacial Delivery" and "Spacepaw"
*Dirdir - Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series
*Garnishee (species) - Harry Harrison's "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers"
*Gowachin - Frank Herbert's "Whipping Star" and "The Dosadi Experiment"
*Guild Steersman - Frank Herbert's "Dune" (not an alien, strictly speaking, but an altered human)
*Ishtarian - Poul Anderson's "Fire Time" (1974)
*Ixchel (species) - Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time"
*Ixtl - A. E. van Vogt's "The Voyage of the Space Beagle"
*Lithian - James Blish's "A Case of Conscience"
*Masters - John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
*Medusan - Jack Williamson's "The Legion of Space"
*Merseian - Poul Anderson's "Ensign Flandry"
*Mesklinite - Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity"
*Mother (species) - Philip José Farmer's "Strange Relations"
*Old Galactic - James H. Schmitz's "Legacy"
*Old One - H. P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness"
*Overlord - Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End"
*Pnume - Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series
*Polarian - Piers Anthony's Cluster series
*Pierson's Puppeteer - Larry Niven's Known Space series
*Radiate (species) - Naomi Mitchison's "Memoirs of a Spacewoman"
*Regul - C. J. Cherryh's ""
*Riim - A. E. van Vogt's "The Voyage of the Space Beagle"
*Ruml - Gordon R. Dickson's "The Alien Way"
*Salaman - Brian Stableford's "Wildeblood's Empire"
*Sirian - Frederik Pohl's "The Age of the Pussyfoot"
*Slash (species) - Piers Anthony's "Kirlian Quest"
*Soft One - Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves"
*Solaris - Stanisław Lem's "Solaris"
*Sulidor - Robert Silverberg's "Downward to the Earth" (alternately spelled 'Sulidoror' by both Barlowe and Silverberg)
*Terran
*The Thing - John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"
*Thrint - Larry Niven's Known Space series
*Tran (species) - Alan Dean Foster's "Icerigger"
*Triped (species) - Damon Knight's "Rule Golden"
*Tyreean - James Tiptree's "Up the Walls of the World"
*Uchjinian - Jack L. Chalker's Well World series
*Vegan (species) - Robert A. Heinlein's "Have Space Suit—Will Travel"
*Velantian - E. E. Smith's Lensman series