Back الكائنات الفضائية في الخيال Arabic Mga ekstraterrestrial sa fiction BCL Vida extraterrestre en la ficció Catalan Extraterrestres en la ficción Spanish Avaruusolennot Finnish Extraterrestre dans la fiction French חוצנים במדע הבדיוני HE Այլմոլորակայինները գեղարվեստական գրականության մեջ Armenian Extraterrestri nella fantascienza Italian Tipologia extraterrestre Portuguese
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| Other name(s) | Aliens, space aliens |
| Grouping | Science fiction |
| Similar entities | Cryptids |
An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. (The word extraterrestrial means 'outside Earth'.) Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction, and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History[1] by Lucian of Samosata.[2]
- ^ Doody, Margaret Anne (1996), A True Story of the Novel, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, p. 26, ISBN 0-8135-2168-8, retrieved December 16, 2020
- ^ Richter, Daniel S. (2017). "Chapter 21: Lucian of Samosata". In Richter, Daniel S.; Johnson, William A. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic. Vol. 1. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 328–329. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.26. ISBN 978-0-19-983747-2.
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