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    RollsRoyceRevenge: My votes:Yog-Sothoth and the rest of them-there crazy kids, for reasons I hope we need not go into. The Alien from Alien (see above). The Blob, ment... more »
    d_r_e: That's great that you brought up Solaris right off of the bat. Stanislaw Lem disliked the idea of humanoid aliens, and wrote about that subject in qui... more »
    Daveinva: It's cliche now, and probably loses points for being humanoid, but Giger's Alien is *still* one bizarre mo-fo. Ditto the comment about Carpenter's Th... more »
    exwizard: About half of Lovecraft's Aliens: Flying Polyps, Yithians, Elder Things, Shoggoths, the Fungi from Yuggoth, etc. I actually thougth "At the Mountains... more »
    CodenameV: The Angels from Neon Genesis Evangelion seem partially inspired by Solaris' point that "aliens are supposed to be 'alien'".....the later, smarter ones... more »
    rek: How do we get Barlowe to publish an update to his Guide? I'm sure there have been enough interesting aliens in the last 30 years to warrant it. And h... more »
    Jaffey: How far "The Blob" has fallen to not be mentioned in the post or the comments. more »
    warestoth: Vernor Vinge 's aliens in "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the sky" are really alien in every possible way, but cleverly described by Vinge. more »
    Segador: Kosh from season 1 of Babylon 5 was awesome because he was so alien and unknowable. The worst thing they did was revealing what he looked like. more »
    MrTim: To me one of the most frightening things about Children of Earth's 456 was that once we found out what was motivating them their actions came off as b... more »
    Jack_Ferguson: One of my personal favourite depictions of a series of alien aliens is from Naomi Mitchison's ([en.wikipedia.org]) 'Memoirs of a Spacewoman.' The main... more »
    pan_magnetic: The "Reapers" from the video game Mass Effect. They were giant, squid-like things that could travel about like spacecraft and even carry passengers. S... more »
    the.joey.o: I may be the lone sci-fi freak advocating for this, but it seems to me that the probable reality is that aliens will be remarkably like us, in appeara... more »
    MISS MERCY STREET: The Capellans of James E. Gunn's The Listeners, if only for an example of an alien/human interstellar communications, and the difficulty of understand... more »
    phypidialown: "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of my favorite when it comes to "otherness". Especially, how the end of the book reflects a scary possibility how anoth... more »
    BlueBeard: Farscape. more »
    Bill-Lee: Sometimes other humans can be as alien as a creature from another world. One of my favorite "aliens" was Charlie, the ice age hunter portrayed by John... more »
    TheMonkeyKing: I look at the Heechee Saga by Fredrick Pohl. We as humans think we know what the alien might look like but we don't know why they were here (on Venus)... more »
    cobaltage: Not just in Solaris, Stanislaw Lem consistently worked with the idea that no matter how advanced human beings became technologically, our ability to e... more »
    Gildo: Do the Tines from Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep qualify as truly alien aliens? On the one hand, their culture is nearly equivalent to medieval Ear... more »
  • #rant

    The Case For Aliens Who Are Truly Alien

    In James Cameron's Avatar, we're introduced to an alien race that we immediately take to: the almost-human Na'vi. But sympathizing with slightly-different people is easy. Here are few examples of sci-fi giving us truly "alien" aliens. More »
  • #doctorwhorecap

    Best Doctor Who Episode Of The Year