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 List of Star Trek races - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Arcturians are a species in the fictional Star Trek universe known for their clones.
The Bandi are a humanoid species native to the planet Deneb IV in the Alpha Quadrant.
Ktarians are an alien species native to the Alpha Quadrant.
www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bandi_(Star_Trek)   (3746 words)

  
 The Smurfs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Astrosniks were a similar fictional race with a space-based theme.
The Snorks were a similar, though less popular, fictional people that lived underwater and had snorkel-shaped protrusions on their heads.
The Littl' Bits were a fictional race of tiny forest people that resemble smurfs in their size and naming convention.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Smurfs   (2210 words)

  
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The relationships between the species are reasonably accurate, but the strengths of these interactions, as well as the life history characteristics of the species, are fictional, largely because these numbers have not been measured by anybody.
Species that are better at settling into empty space have higher transition probabilities in the transition matrix of Empty.
This species is the keystone even though it is usually the least, or second-to-least common species when you are running the model.
carbon.cudenver.edu /~gcronin/KeyPred.doc   (4121 words)

  
 List of species in fantasy fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fantasy fiction tends to draw upon a common set of creatures that are easily recognizable to fans of the fantastic genre and have some pre-determined traits.
Species available only to non-player characters are often called monsters, regardless of the actual nature of the species in question.
This list does not include fantasy stories' names for species more properly included in other lists, such as Atani (Humans of Middle-earth) or Melnibonéans (Elves of Michael Moorcock's Elric cycle), nor does it include fictional races of humanity unless they are physiologically different enough to merit separate consideration.
www.1bx.com /en/Mu-Miyah.htm   (348 words)

  
 Orc - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tolkien in his fictional stories of Middle-earth as the name of a race ofcreatures that are often used by evil forces as soldiers.
In Beowulf, ll: 112,the zombie-like Grendel's race is described as Orc-néas, which seems to mean "corpses of Orcus." Orcus, in Roman mythology, was an alternative name for Pluto,Hades, or Dis Pater, god of the land ofthe dead.
Gargu-Khanu are often found in mixed-species colonies where they are overlords of the smaller vassal species,controlling access to the singular breeding queen of the other species as well as their own.
www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Orc   (2111 words)

  
 archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
Fictional characters who are from Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fictional characters from cartoons, comics, or graphic novels:
www.yourencyclopedia.net /archive_of_fictional_things.html   (331 words)

  
 Discourse
That fiction takes the backseat to nonfiction in many ethical and political contexts is not only curious, it is also a dangerous background against which extant institutions of power can be invisibly sustained.
Many of those who retreat to a weak form of the distinction between certain species of writing still hold that, although the distinction is not rigid and politically useful it is nonetheless valuable in forming textual topographies and interpretive strategies.
I will briefly consider the general political employment of the distinction amongst species in the case of texts lumped together under the heading 'apocrypha.' I shall offer a speculative rhetorical analysis of apocrypha so as to situate the political choices that are at stake in classifying and interpreting apocryphal texts.
www.usfca.edu /philosophy/discourse/9/koopman3.html   (1660 words)

  
 Reconstructing civic culture 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An understanding of the way in which fictional narratives differ from “historical” narratives is important for an understanding of the extraordinary status accorded to biblical narrative in Christianity.
Fictional or literary narratives differ from “historical” narratives in that the events related by fictional narratives are invented.
Second, it is also to take biblical narrative as a species of fictional or literary narrative in that biblical narratives determine with finality the intrinsic narrative order and significance of the events they describe.
www.civsoc.com /reconciv/reconciv10.html   (4355 words)

  
 Tellarite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tellarites are a fictional species from the planet Tellar from the Star Trek television show.
Although this encounter was rather hostile (a Tellarite bounty hunter kidnapped Captain Archer), the relations between humans and Tellarites apparently improved in the next few years until both species became founding members of the United Federation of Planets in 2161.
Tellarites are renowned for being rather direct and forceful in conversation, and are known to be so quarrelsome that arguing is a sport on their home planet, Tellar.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tellarite.htm   (434 words)

  
 BackBreaker Studios LLC-->Tutorials-->Writing-->Diversity Training
Perhaps the most common avoidable error committed when constructing a fictional world is to make that world a monoculture -- using a single societal template with little or no variation from region to region.
Don't limit a fictional species to a mere subset of human behavior.
Someone of the same species as one of the married couple, but of the opposite sex, would be engaged to conceive and provide a child or children.
www.backbreaker.com /Tutorials/Writing.php?id=3   (5430 words)

  
 yeerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A yeerk is a fictional extraterrestrial species from the book and television series Animorphs.
It is a parasite that takes over the mind of another being by way of infestation through the ear canal.
The Yoort have long since changed from being parasites, and have become symbiotes; They merged with a species created by them, the Isk, with whom they have a symbiotic relationship.The joint species is called Iskyoort.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Yeerk.html   (278 words)

  
 Articles - Chigs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chigs are a fictional alien species from the science fiction television series Space: Above and Beyond.
The term chig is not the real name of the species but rather a nickname given to them by humans, referring to the earth animal known as the chigoe.
Special ops missions, infiltrations, assasinations, snipers, sabotage all proved effective against the Chig attackers.
www.lastring.com /articles/Chigs?mySession=81f410273bc57878cdf65812d0518069   (757 words)

  
 Two Monsters in Search of a Concept   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is not, then, a fictional truth of Psycho that Bates is “interstitial.” This makes him on Carroll’s theory not a monster at all, a conclusion with which Carroll would agree, though it also subverts Carroll’s attempts to explain why others take Bates to be a monster.
Man-eating blobs, brain-stealing pods, werewolves, and other entirely fictional monsters cannot be mistakes of nature for they have no counterparts in nature from which they deviate.
The acid-drooling dinosaur-like beast of Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is probably a perfectly developed example of its (fictional) species (certainly it behaves as the robot-scientist aboard the spaceship expected).
www.contempaesthetics.org /pages/article.php?articleID=201   (3475 words)

  
 Rakata - TheBestLinks.com - Civil war, Star Wars, Slavery, 2003, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Rakata are a fictional species from the Star Wars universe video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003).
The Rakata were described as a cruel and savage species.
Rakata were known to defile the bodies of slain enemies by eating them, and they also practiced slavery.
www.thebestlinks.com /Rakata.html   (381 words)

  
 Metroid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For the titular fictional species from the Metroid games, see Metroid (video game species).
Metroid is the first game in the Metroid series of video games, and was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.
The password is now regarded as a total fluke, with no special meaning.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Metroid   (1367 words)

  
 List of species in fantasy fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(''For such species, see List of species in folklore and mythology.'') Fantasy writers and authors have also created a number of monsters and races unique to their particular tales and worlds.
Many fantasy worlds' humanoid species are referred to as "race (fantasy)races".
This list does not include fantasy stories' names for species more properly included in other lists, such as Atani (Humans of Middle-earth) or Melnibonéans (ElfElves of Michael Moorcock's Elric cycle), nor does it include fictional races of humanity unless they are physiologically different enough to merit separate consideration.
www.infothis.com /find/List_of_species_in_fantasy_fiction   (551 words)

  
 INCITE: Dweenles in our midst
In a game called Starflight 2 (apparently there are more in that series nowadays) there were three alien species that claimed credit for the universe.
The Dweenles, as fictional species go, were very depressing, eager to take the blame for anything and unwilling to acknowledge that they had ever done anything that benefited themselves or anyone else.
A great civilization signs a treaty with a species that reproduces by using other sentient species as hosts for it's parasitic offspring.
incite1.blogspot.com /2005/01/dweenles-in-our-midst.html   (659 words)

  
 Mul - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This page deals with the mul, a fictional race.
The mul are the mixed breed offspring of humans and dwarves in the fictional setting of Dark Sun in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.
They are born sterile and the mother is usually a human, and a good portion of women who give birth to muls die.
en.freepedia.org /Mul.html   (108 words)

  
 The Furry Subculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A species could also be fictional such as dragons and unicorns, or a hybrid such as a cabbit or a catwolf.
An example would be that a person feels he mentally changes into an animal of a particular species; that he becomes tuned in to an entire species and his perception changes accordingly.
Many people feel that they act like, or are comparable to, a particular species (or hybrid or fictional species) and so choose to represent themselves as a member of that species within the Furry subculture.
www.vexen.co.uk /human/furry.html   (2838 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Hobbits
Most of his names for characters and places came from established languages, fictional or otherwise, and so they had a 'real' history in Tolkien's imagination that could be translated into his fictional world.
The solution he chose was more sophisticated: he selected the Old English words hol byldan, or some similar variant, meaning 'to build a hole', and developed the fictional compound holbytla (plural holbytlan).
We can only realistically see this as an attempt to marry his fictional people with the 'hobbits' of folklore and tradition.
www.glyphweb.com /arda/h/hobbits.html   (1426 words)

  
 screenonline: Water Wrackets (1978)
Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army.
Peter Greenaway, 1978) is a mythological story about a fictional species associated with water.
It is essentially a spoof piece of anthropology following this imaginary culture's growth and decline, through its leaders, wars, and other significant events, all in homage to the English television documentary tradition.
www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/965021   (90 words)

  
 Jeff VanderMeer Secret Life Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
Short fiction is just as likely to last a lifetime as the latest doorstop.
He's writing stories about subjects both science fiction and horrific that never, ever read as if they were genre fiction.
His language burns brightly, sliding from one word to the next, slickly avoiding expectations, the reader's inherent inclination to categorize a work as belonging to one group or another.
trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/vandermeer-secret_life.htm   (867 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Recall in > Kripke's Naming and Necessity Appendix, he asserts that "unicorn" > denotes a *fictional* species, that the fiction doesn't really tell us > the exact scientific makeup of the species and doesn't ground the term > in any other way (certainly not like real species terms are grounded > by ostension).
He concludes that the fictional species is so > "incomplete" (my term) that it couldn't be identical with any *real* > species.
Maybe using a fictional object or mathematical > object as an example might be less "provoking" to the reader.
www.ou.edu /cas/ouphil/faculty/chris/ed.comments   (4122 words)

  
 Snapper News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
revealed the presence of endangered species such as the Chinese stripe-necked turtle, the Chinese softshell turtle, the Australian snake-necked turtle and the pig-nosed turtle.
Special Rule 7A, a/k/a, "Markunas/Wolfendon Rule": Tee times (tee orders) are scheduled in advance for each match.
I tried to come to terms with having lost this special friend, trying to convince myself that it really was an inevitable end for the little fella from the moment destiny had me find it.
www.usol.com /~jcarlson/page5.html   (5484 words)

  
 Faqtastic :: Q&A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
These are fictional characters though, if you're referring to any real person; then that depends on which religion you study.
A: A person can only be sired by a Tempest drinking their blood and then the person needs to drink the blood of a Tempest.
I think you're a bit confused - the Tempests are a fictional species.
www.artisticchardon.com /faq/faq.php   (467 words)

  
 ussjustice.org | Daily Record 01/00   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Crew member Alycia Gerben, a legal secretary from Dover, recently brought to a crew meeting a Russian word from her law office for which she needed a definition.
Rohal, who had specialized in Russian studies at school, helped her.
Roddenberry's vision of the future in which different species - of varying color and shapes and beauties - work together to solve common problems also attracts people.
www.ussjustice.org /dailyrec0100.htm   (1471 words)

  
 Golden Gryphon Press - Secret Life Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It's full of a rigorous whimsy as it gorgeously renders in prose the entirely fictional habits of an entirely fictional species, culminating in an image of loveliness and power.
But then, these stories don't feel as if they are literary fiction in the midst of the reading experience.
VanderMeer's fiction leads a mayfly life: each story bursts into life then flickers back into nothingness, leaving only itself.
www.goldengryphon.com /revsecret7.html   (458 words)

  
 NHEON : Frameworks : Search Results
The class breaks up into small groups to discuss fictional species that are given.
At the high school level students need to shift from thinking in terms of selection of individuals with a trait to changing proportions of a trait in populations.
If genetic diversity becomes low at many genes of a species, that species becomes increasingly at risk.
www.nheon.org /frameworks/view.php?actid=2369   (409 words)

  
 Articles - Humanoid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this sense, the term describes non-human hominids and indeed most primates, as well as mythological creatures and artificial organisms (robots), especially in the context of science fiction and fantasy fiction.
Most of the aliens in television and movies are humanoid, since it is easier for a fictional character to be a disguised human actor.
A humanoid may also refer to the fictional species in the video game Seven Samurai 20XX who describe various robots, cyborgs, and mutants who attempt genocide upon humans or try to simply use them for consumption purposes.
www.gaple.com /articles/Humanoid?mySession=50d2991e97b3f81758e0161b816fb1df   (403 words)

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