Fredric Brown’s Martians from Martian, Go Home! – the original wise-cracking smart-ass aliens
Tweel from Stanley G. Weinbaum’s A Martian Odyssey
Micromegas from Voltaire’s story of the same name. The original commenting-on-the-0human-condition alien.
Mork from Ork. He always cracked me up.
Odo from Deep Space Nine.
Kif Kroker from Futurama.
I’ll see your Skizz and Nemesis and raise you an Ace Garp, Feek the Freek and G.B.H. {dead}: I always really wanted to see an Ace Trucking Co. and Nemesis the Warlock crossover, with Ace and crew vs. Torquemada.
Author if the Ed and Am Hunter mysteries!
He was very, very good!
Particularly Chee the Cynthian and Adzel, the dragon centaur, thoughI do not recall the name of his species.
The Fithp from Footfall by Niven.
Cthulhu was fhtagn in R’lyeh. R’lyeh was under the Pacific Ocean. On Earth. It is not evident that he was any more alien than Gojira, Mothra or the big turtle.
Personally, I am rather fond of the Arakeen sandworms.
I’ve met one
Ferengi
Pierson’s Puppeteers
Oankali (Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series)
Though this is an imprisonment, yes? Not necessarily a place of origin. What about the “star-spawn of Cthulhu”?
It looks like a difficult question. Was Gandalf from (middle-)Earth? His actions and fortune seem to be closely tied to it, in much the same way as Cthulhu, who fundamentally seems to be Terran, even if that is not his origin.
What about C’Mell? I think she was born/made on earth, from Terran creatures, but she is almost strange enough to be viewed as an alien. By contrast, Rod McBan was born on Old North Australia, making him a de facto alien, but his ancestors came from Earth. So we have an Earthling who is not a human meeting a human that is an alien …
oh, my head hurts
You raise important questions, on which possibly our fates depend. I am still thinking about whether the Sandman counts as an alien. He and his kind are of this world, but of other worlds as well.
Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar. And Marklar.
Uncle Martin was so grandfatherly.
Slartibartfast is talented and has me pining.
Zaphod Beeblebrox because who wouldn’t want that.
From At The Mountains Of Madness:
Another race—a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to the fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu—soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea—a colossal blow in view of the increasing land settlements. Later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the Cthulhu spawn whilst the Old Ones held the sea and the older lands. New land cities were founded—the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. From then on, as before, the antarctic remained the centre of the Old Ones’ civilisation, and all the discoverable cities built there by the Cthulhu spawn were blotted out. Then suddenly the lands of the Pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of R’lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the Old Ones were again supreme on the planet
That reminds me: I forgot Zathras!
But then Zathras is used to being forgotten. Very sad.
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Zathras have very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least, there is symmetry.
For erotic purposes, the Horta!
Ford Prefect, hands down.
Have to admit, that chick was hot.