The SCI‐FI‐I‐SPY Catalogue of All Known
Types of Alien
Welcome to a 100 % exhaustive listing of every type of alien
in every system in every multiverse in the genre!
It may sound as if there should be more than fifty in
the collection, but once you've accounted for minor
variants within each archetype (and the bastard offspring of
illicit inter‐category hybridisation), it turns out that all
apparent leftovers are just cases of inaccurate
reporting – a remarkable proportion of
SF authors need glasses.
The Categories list presents a complete index of the fifty types;
below are brief summaries of some of the major cross‐genre
institutions that races may be more or less closely
affiliated with.
The catalogue classifies all entries in terms of their status on
the Token Collective's registries, along with a few other
useful statistics. Besides this, one or more
of the following alliances may count them as members
(whether or not particular races recognise
this fact):