Out of Pod Experience

The unnamed alien race from Attack the Block.

Because I should have gone home, locked my door, and played FIFA.

Technically they are not aliens, but I´d say the Fremen from Arrakis. Tough people.

And of course, the Xenomorph. Scary things.

Hmmm just had an idea ... someone needs to make Aliens vs. Fremen

Zerg from star craft, because they just rule. laugh

Furians because of Riddick

And Predator.

When I was a kid, the Mala'kak in the crashed ship on Acheron scared the **** out of me. So did the Giger art. But I was really disappointed with them in Prometheus. Mystery gone. Less interesting.

Worf is a bit of an exception.
I have a Klingon toon that won't even sit on chair with cushions and takes up a ready position strategic for Star Fleet betrayals.

The Centauri, but only because Londo is my favourite character in a sci fi setting. Although he is pretty much human.

Possibly the Pattern Jugglers as a race just because they are enigmatic and don't fit into the humanoid racial template.
I'd mention an Adam Roberts race here from a novel I recently read but it'd ruin the plot, so just read all of his stuff


I love her stuff. They are referred to as Gethenians as far as I recall (by the envoy, but they refer to themselves based upon their local area), and they're not really aliens either but a mutation of humanoid which has evolved in response to the climate. Her father was a noted anthropologist and it shows in her works, although she's also a feminist (60s style), buddhist and poet. The Dispossessed is probably my favourite novel. These do have to be read carefully because of when they were written, although she's written some short stories to revisit the settings which are really interesting. I think she tagged the Gethenian one I read as "chance to actually get in the kemmerhouse and have some fun with it".

It might not be explained in the novel itself, but the ambassador is a member of a race known as the Ekumen who seeded various planets with humanoid colonies in the past and then return to see how they have evolved. It is very much a social commentary. Her sci fi stuff generally falls into the same universe, usually called the Hainish cycle.

I used to agree that female writers generally leaned towards that type of narrative until I read some recent stuff by men. Adam Roberts (everything) and Kim Stanley Robinson (The Mars series) really seem to be breaking the mould in the way they write. Definitely worth a look.

This little fellow:

E.T.

Pros:
- Expert in communication
- Great BMX skills
- Glowing finger (pretty awesome feature during night times)
- Child-friendly

Cons:
- Extreme home sickness

Q.

Clearly the Reapers.

Because what other "race" would try to preserve organic life by wiping it out?
Then again, that just might be some analogy to the duality of mankind or some such sh!t that is so mindblowing dumb it goes the whole circle around to being genius again....


Alternately, I vote for the Imperium of Men, they have the coolest weapons.....

Cylons forever