List Of Aliens In Fiction

• List of named species:
• Works of fiction featuring unnamed alien races
• See also
• References

List of named species

A

• Abe from Abe's Oddysee
• Abh (Crest of the Stars)
• Abyormenites of Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (floating ballons - one race, that is)
• Acquarans (Farscape)
• Amnioni (Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Cycle)
• Ancients (Farscape)
• Ancients (Stargate SG-1)
• Andalites of K. A. Applegate's Animorphs
• Andorians (Star Trek)
• Annihilus, a native of the Negative Zone (Marvel Comics)
• The Anti-Monitor (DC Comics)
• The Arisians and Eddorians of E. E. Smith's Lensman novels
• Asgard (Stargate SG-1)
• Atevi (C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series)
• Autons (Doctor Who)
• Azurite(Iffix Y Santaph's StarFrost (See links at Chizora))

B

• Babel fish (Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series)
• Badoon (Marvel Comics)
• Bailies (machine race that conquered Earth in Cleopatra 2525)
• Bajorans (Star Trek)
• Bandi of Star Trek
• Banik (Farscape)
• Banthas (Star Wars)
• Berserkers of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series
• Betazoid (Star Trek)
• Bgztlans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Black Cloud of Fred Hoyle (interstellar dust cloud)
• Blastaar, a native of the Negative Zone (Marvel Comics)
• the "body snatcher pods" from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Bolians (Star Trek)
• Boolite (Farscape)
• Borg (Star Trek)
• Bothans (Star Wars)
• Braalians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Breen (Star Trek)
• Brood (Marvel Comics)
• Brunnen G (Lexx)
• Budong (Farscape)
• Bugs from Klendathu (Starship Troopers)
• Buggers (Ender Wiggins cycle by Orson Scott Card)
• Bynars of Star Trek

C

• the Caleban of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star (invisible telepathic beings who are actually the minds of stars)
• Cardassians (Star Trek)
• Carggites (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Cat People (comics)
• Celestials (Marvel Comics)
• Centauri (Babylon 5)
• Ceti eels from Star Trek II (bug-like ear parasites from Ceti Alpha V)
• Centrans (Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Planet stories)
• Changelings (Star Trek)
• Charrids (Farscape)
• Chigs ()
• Chizora (Iffix Santaph's StarFrost)
• Cho-choi (Jack McDevitt's Infinity Beach)
• Chozo (Metroid)
• Cinnrusskin of James White's Sector General series
• Colatas (Farscape)
• The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
• Coluans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Coreeshi (Farscape)
• The Covenant, a collection of religiously-motivated allied species in the Xbox/PC game
• Crites, the carnivorous hairballs of the Critters films.
• Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw Star)
• Cybermen of Doctor Who
• Cybyota from Orion's Arm
• Cylons of Battlestar Galactica

D

• Dakkamites (Marvel Comics)
• Daleks of Doctor Who
• The Dance (Marvel Comics)
• Darrians (Traveller RPG) known for their small, high-technology polity
• Daxamites (DC Comics)
• Deep Ones (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Delvians (Farscape)
• Deneans (Farscape)
• Denobulans (Star Trek)
• Dentics (Farscape)
• Deltans (Star Trek)
• Dominators (DC Comics)
• the Doublers, two-in-one semi-humanoids of Stanislaw Lem's Eden
• Dracs of Barry B. Longyear's Enemy Mine and The Enemy Papers
• Drak (Farscape)
• Durlans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Drakh (Babylon 5 & Crusade)
• Dugs (Star Wars)

E

• Edo (Star Trek)
• Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics)
• Elder Gods (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Energy Rider (Farscape)
• E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• Ewoks (Star Wars)

F

• Ferengi (Wheeling and dealing humanoids from Star Trek)
• flatcats from Robert A Heinlein's novel The Rolling Stones
• Formics See 'Buggers' above.

G

• Gaim (Babylon 5)
• Galactus (Planet-devouring force of nature in Marvel Comics)
• Gethenians (Ursula Le Guins Ekumen stories) and other races
• the Gladifers of Dennis Paul Himes
• Goa'uld of Stargate SG-1
• Gonzo (The Muppets)
• Gorn (Star Trek)
• Gowachin of Frank Herbert's stories
• Grans (Star Wars)
• Great Race of Yith (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Grudeks (Farscape)
• Greys (popular mythology)
• Grunds (Marvel Comics)
• Guardians of the Universe (natives of the planet Oa, creators and administrators of the Green Lantern Corps in DC Comics)
• Gungans (Star Wars)

H

• Halflings (Dances in the Snow, Genome)
• Halosians (Farscape)
• Hangi (Farscape)
• Hani (C. J. Cherryh)
• Heechee of Frederik Pohl
• Hirogen (Star Trek)
• Hivers of Traveller RPG (modified starfish)
• Hooloovoo (Hitchhikers' Guide series by Douglas Adams)
• Horta (Star Trek)
• Hur'q (Star Trek)
• Hutts (Star Wars)
• Hydrans (Star Trek)
• Hykraius (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Hynerians (Farscape)

I

• Ilanics (Farscape)
• Imskians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Interions (Farscape)
• Invid/Inbit (Flower of Life hunting conquerors of Earth from Robotech: The New Generation and their counterparts from Genesis Climber Mospeada)
• Irkens of Invader Zim
• Ishtarians of Poul Anderson's Fire Time

J

• Jem'Hadar (Star Trek)
• Jocaceans (Farscape)

K

• Kafers (2300AD)
• Kalish (Farscape)
• K PAXians (K PAX)
• Karrema (Star Trek)
• Kazon (Star Trek)
• Khunds (DC Comics)
• Khurtarnan (Farscape)
• Kilrathi (Wing Commander games)
• Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
• Klingons (Star Trek)
• Kren (See Chizora)
• Kree (Marvel Comics)
• The Krith of Richard C Merediths 'Timeliner Trilogy'
• Kromaggs (Sliders) descended from Cro-Magnons
• Kryptonians (DC Comics)
• Kymnar ( RPG)
• Kymellians (Horse head w/ humanoid body; Marvel Comics)
• Kzinti (Larry Niven's Known Space series and )

L

• Lallorans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Laxidasians (Marvel Comics)
• Leerans (From Animorphs by K. A. Applegate)
• Leviathan (Farscape)
• Lithians of James Blish's A Case of Conscience
• Lombaxs (Ratchet & Clank)
• Luxans (Farscape)
• Ly-Cilph (The Night's Dawn Trilogy)
• Lyrans (Star Trek)

M

• Martians
• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
• Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom series
• Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
• Aelita (1924 movie)
• Mars Attacks (Topps trading cards and Tim Burton movie)
• Quatermass and the Pit (BBC science-fiction television serial)
• ... and many others
• Meehooks from the comic book series Fusion, "dinosaurs with fur"
• Melmacians (Alf)
• Menoptera (Doctor Who)
• Mesklinites of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (millipede-like)
• Methorians of Barrington J. Bayley's Zen Gun (gaseous giant-giant dwellers)
• Minbari (Babylon 5)
• Mon Calamari (Star Wars)
• Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)
• Mor-Taxans (the aliens from the first season of War of the Worlds)
• Morthren (the aliens in the second season of War of the Worlds)
• Mr. Bean (Befuddled human-looking visitor to our world)
• Mr. Saturn (Earthbound)
• Mri (C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy)
• Mudokons (Oddworld series)

N

• Narn (Babylon 5)
• Nebari (Farscape)
• Neutrals (Futurama)
• New Gods from the planets Apokolips and New Genesis, from The Fourth World in DC Comics
• Nietzscheans (Andromeda)
• Nox (Stargate SG-1)
• Nyronds (passim in the works of Zander Nyrond)

O

• Oankali of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series
• Ocampa (Star Trek)
• Omicronians / Popplers (Futurama)
• Orandoans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Ortheans (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed) androgynous until puberty
• Overlords (Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke)

P

• The Pak (or Protectors) - Larry Niven's Known Space books (The superintelligent adult form of homo habilis; human Protectors are even more intelligent.)
• Phagors - Brian W. Aldiss's Helliconia series
• Phalanx - Marvel Comics
• Pierson's Puppeteers - Larry Niven's Ringworld and Known Space series (three legs, two manipulative heads)
• Pilots - Farscape
• Pequininoss - Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead
• "Predator" aliens - Predator movies
• Prophets (Star Trek)
• Protoss (StarCraft)
• Psychlos - Battlefield Earth
• Prot - Gene Brewer's K-PAX
• Protoculture -Macross series (advanced race who engineered humans and Zentradi)
• The Puppet Masters

Q

• Q (Star Trek)
• Quarren ("Squid Heads") (Star Wars)
• Qwardians (DC Comics)

R

• Relgarians (Farscape)
• Remans (Star Trek)
• Replicators of Stargate SG-1
• Rigellians (Lensman books) which are barrel-shaped with four tentacular arms and four stubby legs
• Rodians (Star Wars)
• Romulans (Star Trek)
• Rutans from Doctor Who

S

• Sandworm (Dune)
• Scarrens (Farscape)
• Schen/Headies (Noon Universe)
• Scorvians (Farscape)
• Sebaceans (Farscape)
• Second through Last Men (Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men)
• Shadows (Babylon 5)
• Sheyangs (Farscape)
• Shi'ar (Marvel Comics)
• Shivans ()
• Shoggoths (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
• Skrulls (Marvel Comics)
• Snarks (Marvel Comics)
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (living planet)
• Sontarans from Doctor Who
• Species 8472 (Star Trek)
• Suliban (Star Trek)
• Sykarians (Farscape)

T

• Taelons of Gene Roddenberry's ()
• Tai (Genome)
• Talaxians (Star Trek)
• Talokians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Tarkans (Farscape)
• Tau(Warhammer 40,000)
• Tavleks (Farscape)
• Technarchy (Marvel Comics)
• Tectonese ((Alien Nation))
• Tellarites (Star Trek)
• Tenebrians of Hal Clement's Close to Critical
• Terra Novans (Star Trek)
• Terrians (Earth 2)
• Thanagarians, native race of the Silver Age and Hawkworld versions of Hawkman and Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman (DC Comics)
• Thargoids from Elite_(computer_game)
• Therons (in the Dan Dare stories)
• Tholians (Star Trek)
• Thranx of Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth series
• Tiberians (Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes' Encounter With Tiber)
• Time Lords of Gallifrey from Doctor Who
• Titanians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Titanides of John Varley's Gaea-trilogy
• the Tleilaxu of Frank Herbert's Dune novels
• Trabe (Star Trek)
• Tralfamadorians of Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse 5)
• Tran (Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger)
• Trandoshans (Star Wars)
• Traskans (Farscape)
• Treecats (David Weber' 'Honorverse')
• Treens (in the Dan Dare stories}
• Tribbles, from Star Trek; compare flatcats from Heinlein's The Rolling Stones
• Trills (Star Trek)
• Trillions of Nicholas Fisk (small collective crystals)
• Tromites (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Tsyigu ( Dances in the Snow, Genome (Novel) Genome)
• Tusken Raiders (Star Wars)
• Twi'leks (Star Wars)
• Tyranids (Warhammer 40,000)

U

• Unas (Stargate SG-1)

V

• Vaadwaur (Star Trek)
• Vademon of Digimon
• Vasudans ()
• Velantians (Lensman books) notable for their multiplicity of eyes and various appendages
• Venek (Farscape)
• Venom and Carnage (Marvel Comics)
• Vidiians (Star Trek)
• Vilani (Traveller RPG) known for their bureaucratic tendencies and empire building
• Vineans (Yoko Tsuno (blue skin) comic)
• Vogons (bad poetry and bureaucratic planetary demolitions a speciality, from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series)
• Vorc (Farscape)
• Vorcarian bloodtracker (Farscape)
• Vorlons (Babylon 5)
• Vorta (Star Trek)
• Vorticon (Commander Keen)
• Voth (Star Trek)
• Vulcans (Star Trek)

W

• Wanderers (Noon Universe)
• The Watcher race in Marvel Comics
• Winathians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• the Wirrn, Krynoid, and Fendahl of Doctor Who
• Wookiees (Star Wars)

X

• Xandarians (Marvel Comics)
• Xanthuans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
• Xel'Naga (StarCraft)
• Xenomorphs (the Alien movies)
• Xindi (Star Trek)
• X-Parasite (Metroid Fusion)

Y

• Yag-Kosha, from Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant (humanoid elephant)
• Yautja (Predator)
• Yeerks (Animorphs) (parasitic)
• The Yeti from Doctor Who
• Yilane of West of Eden series of Harry Harrison
• Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars)

Z

• Zabrak (Star Wars)
• Zarbi (Doctor Who)
• Zenetan (Farscape)
• Zenn-Lavians (Marvel Comics)
• Zentradi (Macross), adapted as the Zentraedi in Robotech

• Zen-Whoberis (Marvel Comics)
• Zerg (StarCraft)
• Zhodani (Traveller RPG) - renowned psychics

Works of fiction featuring unnamed alien races

• (telepaths)
• 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
• Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible
• The Simpsons (Kang and Kodos)
• Cocoon and

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of aliens in fiction by type
• Index of fictional species
• List of fictional robots
• List of fictional planets
• List of species in fantasy fiction
• Xenobiology
• Cryptozoology

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: Evolving the Alien - the science of extraterrestrial life
• Cliff Pickover. 2003 The Science of Aliens New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07315-8

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