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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.



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