Earthling is a term commonly used in science-fiction to identify humans as opposed to extraterrestrials. The literary effect aimed for is a distancing effect, inviting the readers to contemplate their own species as it might be seen from an external point of view. Especially in 1950s science-fiction, use of the term is a conscious reversal of common assumptions of anthropocentrism or human exceptionalism.
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- Earthling is a term commonly used in science-fiction to identify humans as opposed to extraterrestrials. The literary effect aimed for is a distancing effect, inviting the readers to contemplate their own species as it might be seen from an external point of view. Especially in 1950s science-fiction, use of the term is a conscious reversal of common assumptions of anthropocentrism or human exceptionalism. Historically the term referred to a mortal inhabitant of the earth as opposed to spiritual or divine entities. The derivation from the noun earth by means of the suffix -ling is already seen in Old English eyrþling, in the meaning "ploughman". The sense of "inhabitant of earth" is first attested in 1593. Use in Science fiction dates to 1949, in Red Planet by Robert Heinlein. In Early Modern English, the word was used with the intention of contrasting "earth" with "heaven", and so presenting man as an inhabitant of the sublunary sphere, as opposed to heavenly creatures or deities. Its modern use in science fiction literature contrasts "Earth" (the planet) with outer space or hypothetical other planets with sapient life. The term was often used in 1950's science fiction film and novels by aliens to express a disdainful or patronising tone towards creatures from Earth The meaning "creature from planet Earth" in the context of space travel may be extended to non-human species, as in "Russia fetes dog Laika, first earthling in space".
- Der Ausdruck Erdling bezeichnet ein Wesen irdischer oder erdnaher Herkunft, zumeist vom Planeten Erde. Der Begriff wurde von Science-Fiction-Autoren geprägt, um einen geringschätzigen Umgangston zu beschreiben, dessen sich außerirdische Wesen mitunter gegenüber Bewohnern der Erde oder in Bezug auf Menschen allgemein bedienen. Die Wortendung „-ling“, wie beispielsweise auch in „Däumling“, unterstellt zumeist die Unreife des bezeichneten Wesens.
- 地球人是指於太陽系行星地球上生长的智人。目前地球上只有一個物種能夠被稱為地球人，即哺乳纲灵长目人科人属智人种，簡稱人或人類。 在科幻小說的內容與外星生物探索研究中，地球人是對應外星人的稱呼，不少電影和小說傾向把地球人歸納為一個族群。英語世界中一般把地球人稱為「Men on earth」（在地球上的人），又或直稱「Human Being」（人類），而並無一個對應外星人以形容地球人的專屬名字。
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- Der Ausdruck Erdling bezeichnet ein Wesen irdischer oder erdnaher Herkunft, zumeist vom Planeten Erde. Der Begriff wurde von Science-Fiction-Autoren geprägt, um einen geringschätzigen Umgangston zu beschreiben, dessen sich außerirdische Wesen mitunter gegenüber Bewohnern der Erde oder in Bezug auf Menschen allgemein bedienen. Die Wortendung „-ling“, wie beispielsweise auch in „Däumling“, unterstellt zumeist die Unreife des bezeichneten Wesens.
- 地球人是指於太陽系行星地球上生长的智人。目前地球上只有一個物種能夠被稱為地球人，即哺乳纲灵长目人科人属智人种，簡稱人或人類。 在科幻小說的內容與外星生物探索研究中，地球人是對應外星人的稱呼，不少電影和小說傾向把地球人歸納為一個族群。英語世界中一般把地球人稱為「Men on earth」（在地球上的人），又或直稱「Human Being」（人類），而並無一個對應外星人以形容地球人的專屬名字。
- Earthling is a term commonly used in science-fiction to identify humans as opposed to extraterrestrials. The literary effect aimed for is a distancing effect, inviting the readers to contemplate their own species as it might be seen from an external point of view. Especially in 1950s science-fiction, use of the term is a conscious reversal of common assumptions of anthropocentrism or human exceptionalism.
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