It’s perhaps a silly question, but I don’t think it’s been asked before…
Does anyone have any “favorite,” or even just remember, any names for fictional sub-species of humans, in movies, tv, books, etc.? The only ones I can remember myself are…
•Neo Sapiens, the genetically engineered beings from the old ExoSquad cartoon. The fact that I remembered this makes me feel a little uneasy.
•The somewhat immodest Homo Superior, i.e. “Mutants,” from the Marvel comics universe.
•Homo Sapiens Invictus, the “Nietzscheans” from Gene Roddenberry’s: Andromeda.
So, anyone else remember any others?
Ichtyos sapiens in Waterworld. Wrong in so many ways.
I like the classic Morlocks. Eloi, not so interesting, but just the word, Morlock, sounds cool.
“Home sapiens staroamer” in Staroamer’s Fate.
In Asimov’s mediocre short story “Homo sol”, humanoid species are named according to the name of the star from which they hail.
And Niven has a ton of Homo species in the Ringworld books. All are apparantly decended from what we call Homo erectus.
Shadowrun, an early '90s RPG that features mythical beings in a near-future cyberpunk-style milieu, has Linnaean nomenclature for all their monsters, demihuman and otherwise; orcs, trolls, dragons, the whole nine yards. The only two I can remember offhand are elves *(Homo sapiens gracilis) *and dwarves (Homo sapiens robustus).