From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
|
(DeCamp) An extraterrestrial; a native of another world. Any resemblance to DTs is probably not wholly coincidental.
|
From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
|
e.t.'s (deCamp) Extra-terrestrials; natives of other worlds. Any resemblance to d.t.'s is probably not wholly coincidental.
|
Also a Steven Spielberg film (1982) and its protagonist, a somewhat saccharin creature cute enough to inspire hundreds of souvenir gimcracks and thousands of attacks of nausea. It lost the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo in 1983 to Bladerunner.
This is a fanspeak page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was coined, whether it’s still in use, etc.
|