Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Cover of the first edition
Author	Wayne Barlowe, Ian Summers, Beth Meacham
Illustrator	Wayne Barlowe
Cover artist	Wayne Barlowe
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	1979 (Workman Publishing Company)
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	144
ISBN	978-0894805004
OCLC	5491785
LC Class	NC975.5.B36A4

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text). It contains Barlowe's visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America. It was nominated for the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.^[1]

It was reprinted in 1987, with a new forword by Robert Silverberg.^[2]

After the success of the work, in 1996 Barlowe and Neil Duskis wrote a second book, Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy.

Species

• Abyormenite - Hal Clement's Cycle of Fire (1957)
• Athshean - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest (1975)
• Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud
• Chulpex - 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 - Keith Laumer's A Plague of Demons (1977)
• Demu - F. M. Busby's Cage a Man (1973)
• Dextran - 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 - 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 (not an alien, strictly speaking, but an altered human)
• Ishtarians - Poul Anderson's Fire Time (1974)
• Ixchel - 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 - 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 - Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
• Pnume - Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series
• Polarian - Piers Anthony's Cluster series
• Pierson's Puppeteers - Larry Niven's Known Space series
• Radiate - 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 - Piers Anthony's Kirlian Quest
• Soft One - Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves
• Solaris - Stanisław Lem's Solaris
• Sulidor - Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth (alternately spelled 'Sulidoror' by both Barlowe and Silverberg)
• Terran - humans; no specific novel - an image of a human (the author) used in the size comparison chart in the book.
• The Thing - John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"
• Thrint - Larry Niven's Known Space series
• Tran - Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger
• Triped - Damon Knight's Rule Golden
• Tyreean - James Tiptree's Up the Walls of the World
• Uchjinian - Jack L. Chalker's Well World series
• Vegan - Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit—Will Travel
• Velantian - E. E. Smith's Lensman series

References

1. 1980 Hugo Awards
2. Barlowe, Wayne (1987). Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89480-500-2.