Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe. It contains his visualizations of different alien species from various works of science fiction.
[edit] Species & source
- Abyormenite - Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (1957)
- Athshean - Ursula K. LeGuin's The Word for World is Forest (1975)
- Black Cloud (species) - Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud
- Chulplex - Avram Davidson's Masters of the Maze
- Cinruss - James White's Sector General series
- Cryer - Joseph Green's Conscience Interplanetary
- Cygnan - Donald Moffitt's The Jupiter Theft
- Cygnostik - Michael Bishop's A Little Knowledge (1977)
- Czill - Jack L. Chalker's Well World series
- Demon (species) - Keith Laumer's A Plague of Demons (1977)
- Demu (species) - F. M. Busby's To Cage a Man (1973)
- Dextran (species) - David J. Lake's The Right Hand of Dextra
- Dilbian - Gordon R. Dickson's Spacial Delivery and Spacepaw
- Dirdir - Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series
- Garnishee (species) - Harry Harrison's Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
- Gowachin - Frank Herbert's Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment
- Guild Steersman - Frank Herbert's Dune
- Ishtarian - Poul Anderson's Fire Time (1974)
- Ixchel (species) - Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
- Ixtl - A. E. Van Vogt's The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Lithian - James Blish's A Case of Conscience
- Masters - John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
- Medusan - Jack Williamson's The Legion of Space
- Merseian - Poul Anderson's Ensign Flandry
- Mesklinite - Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity
- Mother (species) - Philip José Farmer's Strange Relations
- Old Galactic - James H. Schmitz's Legacy
- Old One - H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
- Overlord (species) - Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
- Pnume - Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series
- Polarian - Piers Anthony's Cluster series
- Pierson's Puppeteer - Known Space series
- Radiate (species) - Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman
- Regul - C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun: Kesrith
- Riim - A. E. Van Vogt's The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- Ruml - Gordon R. Dickson's The Alien Way
- Salaman - Brian Stableford's Wildeblood's Empire
- Sirian - Frederik Pohl's The Age of the Pussyfoot
- Slash (species) - Piers Anthony's Kirlian Quest
- Soft One - Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves
- Solaris - Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
- Sulidor - Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth
- Terran
- The Thing - John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"
- Thrint - Larry Niven's Known Space series
- Tran (species) - Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger
- Triped (species) - Damon Knight's Rule Golden
- Tyreean - James Tiptree's Up the Walls of the World
- Uchjinian - Jack L. Chalker's Well World series
- Vegan (species) - Robert A. Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
- Velantian - E. E. Smith's Lensman series
