The Best of Science Fiction’s Oppressed Species
District 9’s crustacean aliens may be the first extraterrestrials to experience South Africa’s apartheid, but they’re hardly the first species to feel the sting of oppression. We list science fiction’s other downtrodden, enslaved, and dehumanized (so to speak) species. The Newcomers (Alien Nation): District 9’s aliens are most often compared to the Tenctonese, better known…