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I was thinking of the bar scene in Star Wars, about ALF and E.T. and so many other aliens who play a part in my favorite books. In the Jack Campbell series, in the Cherryh Foreigner series, in Finder by Palmer, Zahn’s Quadrail series, in Corey’s Expanse series, and in Enemy Mine by Longyear there are aliens. There is an amazing array of aliens in White’s Sector General series.
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The series is noted for its diverse and believable non-humanoid alien life forms, and for its pacifist philosophy.
...Sector General is a gigantic multi-species hospital space station founded as a peace-promoting project by two heroes from opposite sides of humanity's first full interstellar war. The hospital accommodates patients and staff from dozens of species, with different environmental requirements, behaviors and ailments, but many of the stories feature types of patient that the builders did not anticipate. Initially most of the stories center round the career of Doctor Conway, who rises from junior surgeon to the top level, Senior Diagnostician. In the fourth book the Galactic Federation decides that the emergency service which the hospital offers to victims of space accidents and planetary catastrophes is its most effective means of making peaceful contact with new spacefaring species, which allows the series to expand its range of plots, characters and locations.
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Dr. Prilicla
A large but fragile winged insect-like being from the very low-gravity planet Cinruss. In addition to being highly skilled in the more delicate types of surgery, Prilicla is an empath and therefore can sense the emotions of most other lifeforms including many non-intelligent animals. Its tact and the desire of colleagues to avoid distressing it by displaying negative emotions generally makes others willing to follow its advice– a pattern that one reviewer described as "a pleasant Machiavellian streak." Despite its natural timidity and the distress that other beings' anger, fear and pain cause it, Prilicla uses its empathic ability in prolonged searches for survivors of space combat and accidents.
Hubby really enjoyed the Men in Black movies with Will Smith and a long time ago there was Cocoon directed by Ron Howard.
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Lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_extraterrestrials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humanoid_aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_universe_creatures_and_aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Star_Wars_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space#Species
List of fictional alien species
My favorites:
ALF
by E. E. “Doc” Smith
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