Wikipedia: List of aliens in fiction

List of aliens in fiction
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This is an incomplete list of aliens that have appeared in various works of fiction featuring aliens.

Humanoid Aliens

Most aliens are humanoid if not human-like, especially in TV series because actors are human. The Greys described in UFO folklore match this body type. Humanoids include:

Acquarans (Farscape)
Amnioni (Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Cycle)
Andorians (Star Trek)
Atevi (C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series)
Asgard (Stargate SG-1)
Bajorans (Star Trek)
Banik (Farscape)
Betazoid (Star Trek)
Bolians (Star Trek)
Boolite (Farscape)
Bothans (Star Wars)
Breen (Star Trek)
Centauri (Babylon 5)
Charrids (Farscape)
Colatas (Farscape)
Coreeshi (Farscape)
Dakkamites (Marvel Comics)
The Dance (Marvel Comics)
Daxxamites (DC Comics)
Deep Ones (H. P. Lovecraft)
Delvians (Farscape)
Deneans (Farscape)
Denobulans (Star Trek)
Dentics (Farscape)
Deltans (Star Trek)
Ewoks (Star Wars)
Ferengi (Star Trek)
Grans (Star Wars)
Grudeks (Farscape)
Grunds (Marvel Comics)
Halosians (Farscape)
Hangi (Farscape)
Hur'q (Star Trek)
Hydrans (Star Trek)
Hynerians (Farscape)
Ilanics (Farscape)
Interions (Farscape)
Jocaceans (Farscape)
Kafers (2300AD)
Kalish (Farscape)
Karrema (Star Trek)
Kazon (Star Trek)
Khunds (DC Comics)
Khurtarnan (Farscape)
Klingons (Star Trek)
Kree (Marvel Comics)
Kryptonians (DC Comics)
Laxidasians (Marvel Comics)
Luxans (Farscape)
Lyrans (Star Trek)
Martians
- H.G. Wells' 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)
- ... and many others
Minbari (Babylon 5)
Mondoshawan (The Fifth Element)
Mri (C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy)
Nebari (Farscape)
Neutrals (Futurama)
Oans (DC Comics)
Ocampa (Star Trek)
Ortheans (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed) androgynous until puberty
Pilots (Farscape)
Phagors (Brian W. Aldiss's Helliconia series)
Porquinhos (Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead)
Relgarians (Farscape)
Romulans (Star Trek)
Scarrens (Farscape)
Scorvians (Farscape)
Sebaceans (Farscape)
Shi'ar (Marvel Comics)
Suliban (Star Trek)
Sykarians (Farscape)
Taelons (Earth: The Final Conflict)
Talaxians (Star Trek)
Tarkans (Farscape)
Tavleks (Farscape)
Tellarites (Star Trek)
Terrians (Earth 2)
Trabe (Star Trek)
Traskans (Farscape)
Tusken Raiders (Star Wars)
Twi'leks (Star Wars)
Venek (Farscape)
Vineans (Yoko Tsuno (blue skin) comic)
Vorc (Farscape)
Vorcarian (Farscape)
Vorta (Star Trek)
Vulcans (Star Trek)
Wookiees (Star Wars)
Xandarians (Marvel Comics)
Xindi (Star Trek)
Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars)
Zabrak (Star Wars)
Zenetan (Farscape)
Zenn-Lavians (Marvel Comics)
Zentraedi (Robotech / Macross)
Zen-Whoberis (Marvel Comics)

Near-relatives of mankind

In these stories, these aliens are descended from the same ancestors as humanity:

Abh (Crest of the Stars)
Darrians (Traveller RPG) known for their small, high-technology polity
Gethenians (Ursula Le Guins Ekumen stories) and other races
Kromags (Sliders) descended from Cro-Magnons
Nietzscheans (Andromeda)
The Pak (or Protectors) (Larry Niven's Known Space books) the superintelligent adult form of homo habilis; human Protectors are even more intelligent.
Second through Last Men (Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men)
Terra Novans (Star Trek)
Vilani (Traveller RPG) known for their bureaucratic tendencies and empire building
Zhodani (Traveller RPG) known for their psychic abilities
in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the episode "The Chase" revealed that all the humanoid races in the galaxy are the result of genetic tinkering by a single humanoid race in the distant past called The Preservers.
similarly, in Marvel Comics' The Eternals, it was revealed that many species were genetically tampered with by the alien Celestials.

Feline humanoids

This form has been popular. They are usually warrior-like as well:

Aslan (Traveller RPG)
Centrans (Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Planet stories)
Ctarl-Ctarl (Outlaw star)
Hani (C. J. Cherryh)
Kilrathi (Wing Commander games)
Kymnar (FTL:2448 RPG)
Kzinti (Larry Niven's Known Space series)
Tiberians (Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes' Encounter With Tiber)
Tran (Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger)
Unnamed aliens (Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer)

Canine humanoids

Melmacians (Alf)

Insectoid and Arachnid Aliens

The Aliens of the Alien movies
Brood (Marvel Comics)
Cinnrusskin of James White's Sector General series
Drak (Farscape)
Menoptera (Doctor Who)
Mesklinites of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (millipede-like)
Thargoids from Elite_(computer_game)
Thranx of Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth series
Xindi (Star Trek)
Zarbi (Doctor Who

Centaurs

Andalites of KA Applegate's Animorphs
Ishtarians of Poul Anderson's Fire Time
Kymellians (Horse head w/ humanoid body; Marvel Comics)
Tenebrians of Hal Clement's Close to Critical
Titanides of John Varley's Gaea-trilogy

Reptilians and Amphibians

Badoon (Marvel Comics)
Cardassians (Star Trek)
Dracs of Barry B. Longyear's Enemy Mine and The Enemy Papers
Gorn
Great Race of Yith (H. P. Lovecraft)
Hutts (Star Wars)
Hynerians (Farscape)
Jem'Hadar (Star Trek)
Lithians of James Blish's A Case of Conscience
Narn (Babylon 5)
Omicronians / Popplers (Futurama)
Predator aliens (Predator)
Rodians (Star Wars)
Sheyangs (Farscape)
Skrulls (Marvel Comics)
Snarks (Marvel Comics)
Trandoshans (Star Wars)
Vaadwaur (Star Trek)
Velantians (Lensman books) notable for their multiplicity of eyes and various appendages
Voth (Star Trek)
Yilane of West of Eden series of Harry Harrison
the frog-like Gowachin of Frank Herbert's stories
and various variations of dinosaurs

Aquatic species

Babel fish (Douglas Adams)
Gungans (Star Wars)
Mon Calamari (Star Wars)
Quarren "Squid Heads" (Star Wars)
Xindi (Star Trek)

Parasites and symbionts

the "body snatcher pods" from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Energy Rider (Farscape)
Goa'uld of Stargate SG-1
the eponymous aliens of The Puppet Masters
the endosymbionts of Hal Clement's Needle and Through the Eye of a Needle
Trillss (Star Trek)
Venom and Carnage (Marvel Comics)
the Wirrn, Krynoid, and Fendahl of Doctor Who
Yeerks (Animorphs)

Robotic and Mechanical aliens

Berserkers of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series
Borg (Star Trek)
Cybermen and Daleks of Doctor Who
Cylons of Battlestar Galactica
Phalanx (Marvel Comics)
Replicators of Stargate SG-1
Technarchy (Marvel Comics)

Space-Living Creatures

Budong (Farscape)
Leviathan (Farscape)

Sentient Plants & Fungi

Delvians (Farscape)

Ancient Races

Aliens that have either disappeared and left only ruins or developed to godlike- practically omnipotent entities.

Unnamed and unseen aliens in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Ancients (Farscape)
The Arisians and Eddorians of E. E. Smith's Lensman novels; compare:
- The Vorlons and Shadows of Babylon 5
Heechee of Frederick Pohl
August Derleth's Elder Gods
The Ancients of Stargate SG-1
both of Terry Pratchett's early science fiction novels, Strata and The Dark Side of the Sun, offer subversions of the paradigm
See also Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Star"

More unusual forms

Abyormenites of Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (floating ballons - one race, that is)

Black Cloud of Fred Hoyle (interstellar dust cloud)
the Caleban of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star (invisible telepathic beings who are actually the minds of stars)
the Doublers, two-in-one semi-humanoids of Stanislaw Lem's Eden
Dugs (Star Wars)
Ego the Living Planet (Marvel Comics
the Gladifers of Dennis Paul Himes
Hivers of Traveller RPG (modified starfish)
Horta (Star Trek)
Meehooks from the comic book series ''Fusion, "dinosaurs with fur"
Methorians of Barrington J. Bayley's Zen Gun (gaseous giant-giant dwellers)
Oankali of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series
Pokemon (Pokemon)
Prophets (Star Trek)
Puppeteers of Larry Niven's Ringworld and Known Space series (three legs, two manipulative heads)
Rigellians (Lensman books) which are barrel-shaped with four tentacular arms and four stubby legs
Shoggoths (H. P. Lovecraft)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (living planet)
Tholians (Star Trek)
Tralfamadorians of Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse 5)
Trillions of Nicholas Fisk (small collective crystals)
Yag-Kosha, from Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant (humanoid elephant)
Aliens that are product of mechanical evolution in The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem

Shape-shifting aliens

Changelings (Star Trek)
the Tleilaxu of Frank Herbert's Dune novels

Unintelligent Creatures

Banthas (Star Wars)
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (disputed)
Sandworm (Dune)
Tribbles, from Star Trek; compare
- Flat Cats from Robert A Heinlein's Space Family Stone book