List of aliens in fiction
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This is a list of aliens that have appeared in various works of fiction featuring aliens.
Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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)
- Anabis (The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt)
- Ancients (Farscape)
- Ancients (Stargate SG-1)
- Andalites of K. A. Applegate's Animorphs
- Andorians (Star Trek)
- Androsynth (Star Control)
- Annihilus, a native of the Negative Zone (Marvel Comics)
- The Anti-Monitor (DC Comics)
- Arilou (Star Control)
- 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: The Wrath of Khan (bug-like ear parasites from Ceti Alpha V)
- Centrans (Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Planet stories)
- Changelings (Star Trek)
- Charrids (Farscape)
- Chenjesu (Star Control)
- Chigs (Space: Above and Beyond)
- Chizora (Iffix Santaph's StarFrost)
- Chmmr (Star Control)
- Cho-choi (Jack McDevitt's Infinity Beach)
- Chozo (Metroid)
- Cinnrusskin of James White's Sector General series
- Coeurl (The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt)
- 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 Halo: Combat Evolved
- 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)
- Dnyarri (Star Control)
- 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)
- Drakh (Babylon 5 & Crusade)
- Druuge (Star Control)
- Durlans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Dugs (Star Wars)
- Dyson Aliens (Peter F. Hamilton's "Pandora's Star")
E
- Edo (Star Trek)
- Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics)
- Elder Gods (Cthulhu Mythos)
- Energy Rider (Farscape)
- E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
- Esmers from Little Big Adventure 2, they are divided into four races: Sups, Francos, Wannies and Mosquibees
- 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.
- Furlings (Stargate SG1 -- member of the Four Great Races)
G
- Gaim (Babylon 5)
- Galactus (Planet-devouring force of nature in Marvel Comics)
- Galactoid (Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson)
- Garthlings from David Brin's Uplift Universe
- 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)
- Gubru from David Brin's Uplift Universe
- Gungans (Star Wars)
H
- Halflings (Dances in the Snow, Genome)
- Hallessi from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar book series, a subject species of The Race.
- 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)
- Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics)
- Hur'q (Star Trek)
- Hutts (Star Wars)
- Hydrans (Star Trek)
- Hykraius (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Hynerians (Farscape)
I
- Ilanics (Farscape)
- Ilwrath (Star Control)
- 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
- Ixtl (The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt)
J
K
- Kafers (2300AD)
- Kalish (Farscape)
- K PAXians (K PAX)
- Karrema (Star Trek)
- Kazon (Star Trek)
- Khunds (DC Comics)
- Khurtarnan (Farscape)
- Kilaks (Destroy All Monsters)
- 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 (FTL:2448 RPG)
- Kymellians (Horse head w/ humanoid body; Marvel Comics)
- Kzinti (Larry Niven's Known Space series and Star Trek: The Animated Series)
L
- Lallorans (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Laxidasians (Marvel Comics)
- Lectroids (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension)
- 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)
- Melnorme (Star Control)
- 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)
- Mmrnmhrm (Star Control)
- 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)
- Muuh from Orion's Arm
- Mycon (Star Control)
N
- Narn (Babylon 5)
- Namekian (Dragon Ball)
- Nebari (Farscape)
- Nebular (Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson)
- Neutrals (Futurama)
- New Gods from the planets Apokolips and New Genesis, from The Fourth World in DC Comics
- Niea from anime Niea_7
- 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)
- Orkans (Mork and Mindy)
- Ortheans (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed) androgynous until puberty
- Overlords (Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke)
- Orz (Star Control)
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
- Pkunk (Star Control)
- Pequininoss - Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead
- "Predator" aliens - Predator movies
- Progenitors from David Brin's Uplift Universe
- Prophets (Star Trek)
- Protoss (StarCraft)
- Psychlos - Battlefield Earth
- Psychons (Space: 1999)
- Prot - Gene Brewer's K-PAX
- Protoculture -Macross series (advanced race who engineered humans and Zentradi)
- Ptavv from Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs
- The Puppet Masters
Q
R
- Rabotevs from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar book series, a subject species of The Race.
- Race, The (Moreau Series) Amoeboid aliens that attempt to hide on an Earth where genetic engineering has been rampant.
- The Race from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar book series, a reptillian species that had conquered two planets and attacked "Tosev 3" (Earth) in 1942.
- 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
- Riim (The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt)
- Rodians (Star Wars)
- Romulans (Star Trek)
- Rutans from Doctor Who
S
- Sandworm (Dune)
- Saiyan (Dragon Ball)
- Scarrens (Farscape)
- Schen/Headies (Noon Universe)
- Scorvians (Farscape)
- Scrin (Command & Conquer)
- Sebaceans (Farscape)
- Second through Last Men (Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men)
- Shadows (Babylon 5)
- Sheyangs (Farscape)
- Shi'ar (Marvel Comics)
- Shivans (Descent: Freespace)
- Shoggoths (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Shofixti (Star Control)
- Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
- Skrulls (Marvel Comics)
- Slylandro (Star Control)
- Snarks (Marvel Comics)
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (living planet)
- Solomon Family (3rd Rock from the Sun)
- Sontarans from Doctor Who
- Spathi (Star Control)
- Species 8472 (Star Trek)
- Suliban (Star Trek)
- Supox (Star Control)
- Sykarians (Farscape)
- Syreen
T
- Taelons of Gene Roddenberry's (Earth: Final Conflict)
- Tai (Genome)
- Talaxians (Star Trek)
- Talokians (DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Tarkans (Farscape)
- Tau(Warhammer 40,000)
- Tavleks (Farscape)
- Technarchy (Marvel Comics)
- Tenctonese ((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)
- Thraddash (Star Control)
- 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)
- Traeki from David Brin's Uplift Universe
- 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)
- Twinsunians from Little Big Adventure, they are divided into four races: Quetches, Rabbibunnies, Grobos and Spheros
- Tyranids (Warhammer 40,000)
U
- Unas (Stargate SG-1)
- The Uncreated (Marvel Comics)
- Umgah (Star Control)
- Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (Star Control)
- Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah (Star Control)
- Uryuoms (El Goonish Shive)
- Utwig (Star Control)
V
- Vaadwaur (Star Trek)
- Vademon of Digimon
- Vasudans (Descent: Freespace)
- 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)
- Vortigaunt (Half-Life)
- Voth (Star Trek)
- Vulcans (Star Trek)
- VUX (Star Control)
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)
- Yehat (Star Control)
- 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
- Zoq-Fot-Pik (Star Control)
Works of fiction featuring unnamed alien races
- Babylon 5: Thirdspace (telepaths)
- Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (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 Cocoon: The Return
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