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

See subarticles:

• List of extraterrestrials in fiction: A-I
• List of extraterrestrials in fiction: J-Q
• List of extraterrestrials in fiction: R-Z

Works of fiction featuring unnamed alien species

This list is for listing works that contain alien species that are not named by species, with a short description specifying the unnamed species.

• Damon Knight's amorphous amoeba-like creature in the 1953 short story Four In One
• John Carpenter's The Thing
• 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
• 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
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Babylon 5: Thirdspace (telepaths)
• The Body Snatchers (pod people) and its film adaptations
• Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return
• The Greatest American Hero
• 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
• Star Trek
• Halo
• Alien Olympics 2044 AD (Game Boy)

See 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: Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life
• Cliff Pickover. 2003 The Science of Aliens New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07315-8