History HalfHumanHybrid / Literature

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's 'Tweenies' short stories features Martian-Human hybrids. There most noticeable features are large white mohican crests and high intelligence. They are outcasts of both species. In the stories a sympathetic human ends up looking after several Tweenies, later becoming a small commune. Once older, they leave Earth to have adventures colonising Venus.

* When the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biologists]] in Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/TheMoreauFactor'' crack the secret of InvoluntaryTransformation, what's the first thing they do? Turn their lab staff into sexy {{Half Human Hybrid}}s. Being Chalker, the new designs combine roughly equal measures of utilitarianism and fanservice; unlike most Chalker the fetish aspects are deliberately lampshaded as being caused by the effect of the PowerPerversionPotential on the scientists.

* In Iain M.Banks ''Literature/TheCulture'' novels, Culture comprises a number of humanoid species who were genetically modified at the Culture's founding to be able to reproduce with each other. Humanoid species from outside the Culture who lack such modifications would not necessarily be able to do the same, sometimes finding that the Culture humans look [[UncannyValley a little unattractive]]. As masters of genetic tinkering and straight up body re-engineering, there's very little to stop the average Culture citizen from [[BoldlyComing seeking out exciting new alien races]] as the gender of their choice...

* Efrel in ''{{Literature/Kane}}'' novel ''Darkness Weaves'' has it as her back story. Her mother was raped by [[EldritchAbomination ocean-dwelling demons]] Scylredi and lost her mind. As a result of her mixed blood, Efrel is very skilled at dark arts, not to mention very hard to kill.

* In Creator/RobertBloch's Franchise/CthulhuMythos story "The Brood of Bubastis", he takes this trope UpToEleven, with an ancient Egyptian cult that'd managed to bring their animal-headed deities into being ''in the flesh'', [[BestialityIsDepraved by quite primitive methods]].

* Creator/BruceCoville's book ''Half Human'' is a collection of short stories all about this trope. These half-human creatures range from the traditional to the unexpected, with just a few examples being a girl who discovers one morning that her hair has turned into snakes overnight and that her mother doesn't wear a turban all the time just for the NiceHat factor, another girl who was conceived when her mother drank dragon blood and begins exhibiting dragon-like mannerisms and [[BodyHorror sprouting ridges on her back]] when she grows up, and a ''tree'' [[HumanityEnsues transformed into a man who must learn how to be human]].

** Marcus Flint is often speculated to have troll-blood in him, though that might just be an insult and not meant to be taken seriously.

* ''Literature/{{Feral}}'' has a half-Orc named Char as the main character, mostly to his [[FantasticRacism detriment considering how humans in his world feel about orcs.]] There is also a half-dwarf assassin, and research into 'hybrids' is apparently a thing.

* ''[[Creator/HarryTurtledove A Different Flesh]]'' takes place in a world where homo erectus are the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. In "Trapping Run", a human man impregnates a homo erectus woman.

** [[spoiler:Frances Brown, great-grandmother of the main characters]] was the daughter of a human and a Kairos, a species whose [[SpeciesOfHats hat]] was being UnluckilyLucky. She never knew this however, and it was only revealed decades after her death.

* Creator/HPLovecraft would commonly use this trope. There's a bit of {{subtext}} reflecting Lovecraft's famed racist views in how the interbreeding is portrayed as so extremely unnatural.:

* Creator/HPLovecraft:

** There's a bit of {{subtext}} reflecting Lovecraft's famed racist views in how the interbreeding is portrayed as so extremely unnatural.[[note]]The problem is not that he presented breeding with a gorilla or a "frog-fish" to be unnatural, the problem is that there was an unspoken component (you know, {{Subtext}}) that breeding with a non-white race is also unnatural, because they are no more human than a gorilla.[[/note]]
** AuthorTract aside, they tend to be pretty grotesque. More notable is Wilbur Whateley in Literature/TheDunwichHorror, who, under his roomy clothes, was equal parts giant anthropomorphic goat and and HumanoidAbomination. He wasn't nearly as strange as the Horror, which was a large, invisible monster, when revealed was a mass of tentacles in the shape of an egg, inhuman mouths and eyes everywhere and a humanoid face on top. The twist at the end, [[LateArrivalSpoiler if you'll forgive the spoiler]], was that Wilbur and the Horror were fraternal twins, with the Horror simply resembling their father Yog Sothoth more than Wilbur did.

** Boba Fett married a Mandaloran kiffar woman named Sintas Vell. Together with her he had a daughter named Ailyn, who was a half-kiffar. This daughter married a human, and with him had a daughter named Mirta Gev, who was a quarter kiffar and three quarters human. Sintas, Ailyn and Mirta were [[DarkActionGirl head-hunters]].
* In the ''Literature/XWingSeries'', a minor villain named Zekka Thyne is described as a halfbreed. It's never said what he is besides human, but he's got several {{Red Right Hand}}s, namely very mottled skin, pointed teeth, and HellishPupils that catch the light.
** One of the early ''Legends'' books has a crossbreed mechanic whose parentage is also never described, who admits to Han Solo that he's not wholly of either species and is relieved when Han is okay with that.
** The ''Legends'' continuity is filled with hybrids, due to the large number of "[[HumanAliens Near-Human]]" races, which aren't so much alien species as subspecies of humanity that descended from early space explorers who were cut off from the original human homeworlds thousands of years earlier, only to be rediscovered later. How far they diverge from regular humans varies; some just have [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe different skin colors]], while others have more extreme differences (the Miraluka, for example, have no eyes and see using TheForce instead). On the other hand, species that ''aren't'' Near-Humans explicitly cannot interbreed with humans, no matter how human-like they appear to be.
*** Later additions to the lore rendered the near-human argument moot as not only near-humans can interbreed with humans but also species like Zabrak and Twi'lek.

* Literature/VillainsByNecessity: [[spoiler:Sam]] it turns out is half-elven.

* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Shug Nix is the son of a Human father and mother who is from another species. Han can tell right away from his looks, though they're not ''that'' different from a full Human.

* ''Literature/AmericanGods'': Shadow is the son of [[spoiler:the god Odin]] and a mortal woman. Similarly, Charlie and Spider from ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' are the sons of the spider god Anansi and a mortal mother.

*** Faeries, in turn, can sire children with humans, such as the elf-knight Meliorn. A special case is Mark and Helen Blackthorn, because their father was a shadowhunter and their mother was a faerie.

** James and Lucie Herondale, Tessa Gray's children with Will Herondale are part-demonic shadowhunters, since their mother was fathered by a demon. Although neither are immortal, James inherits an ability to access his grandfather's realm, while Lucie can control ghosts, likely an exaggeration of the Herondales' natural ability to see ghosts that was boosted by her demonic blood. By extension, this means that their descendants, which include the modern-day Herondales (Stephen, Jace) and Blackthorns (Julian, Mark, Helen, etc.) are part-demon.

** Hagrid had a human father and a giant mother. Madame Maxime is also at least part-giant, but trying to pass as "pure human."
** Fleur Delacour is a quarter Veela.

* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', warlocks are the progeny of couplings between humans and demons. They are themselves generally infertile, though [[spoiler:Tessa Gray can have children, as her human parent was a Shadowhunter. This was very difficult to arrange, as the runes Shadowhunters bear will kill any warlock children the Shadowhunter might possibly have, but [[BigBad Axel Mortmain]] eventually arranged to obtain a Shadowhunter without runes.]]

** There are also hybrids of fairies and humans, such as the elf-knight Meliorn. A special case is Mark and Helen Blackthorn, because her father was a shadowhunter and her mother was a fairy. Thus, they both are a quarter human, a half angel, and a quarter demon.
** Then there's Jonathan Morgenstern. He became a shadowhunter, who was also to a large extent a demon, through magical experiments.
** In ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' it turns out that there are also common offspring of humans and werewolves. The "half-werewolves" cannot transform, but they are still significantly stronger, faster and more resistant than humans.
** At the same time we see in ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' that hybrids between humans and werewolves or fairies are in no way exceptions, but occur more frequently.
** ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'' has James and Lucie Herondale. They are the children of Tessa Gray, a hybrid of shadowhunter and demon, and thus a special kind of warlock. James and Lucie are both shadowhunters, but also partial demons, which is why James has special powers that other shadowhunters do not have.
*** Lucie turns out to have the power to see the dead in Chain of Gold when she sees Jesse Blackthorn, who died some years earlier. As the Herondales seem to have the ability to see ghosts despite this, but nobody else can see Jesse, it's likely that this ability of Lucie's originated in the Herondale ability and was boosted by Tessa's demon blood.

** ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'' has James and Lucie Herondale. They are the children of Tessa Gray, a hybrid of shadowhunter and demon, and thus a special kind of warlock. James and Lucie are both shadowhunters, but also partial demons, which is why James has special powers that other shadowhunters do not have. Lucie presumably would also have such powers, but she has not shown them.

* Shadow from ''Literature/AmericanGods'' [[spoiler:was the son of Odin and a mortal woman.]] Similarly, Charlie and Spider from ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' are the sons of the spider god Anansi and a mortal mother.
* [[spoiler:Tobias]] from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. His father was an Andalite (specifically [[spoiler:Elfangor]]) {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed in human form. While this would seem to make him all human, in the book ''The Illusion'', he is able to see a GeneticMemory of his father, which Andalite legend says can happen when one is near death. This could be a side effect of having acquired Andalite DNA from [[spoiler:his uncle, Ax]], in the same book.
* Played with in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl''. In ''The Lost Colony'', Artemis (human) and Holly (fairy) accidentally switch out an eye due to timetravel shenanigans. In ''The Last Guardian'', [[spoiler:Artemis gets trapped in the center of a spell that's set to kill all fairies in range, but is harmless to humans. However, because Artemis has a fairy-eye, the field sees him as fairy and ends up killing him]]. This event classifies both Artemis and Holly as this trope.
* Played straight in Adam R. Brown's ''{{Literature/Alterien}}'' series. The children the Alteriens have with humans are half human/Alterien hybrids. Ara, Lyra and Li'nia are also hybrids, though they are half human, half Shanda'ryn.
* Humans in ''Literature/BlackDogs'' seem to be able to hybridize with almost anything, from the plausible elves, FridgeLogic dragons and ''demons'' that vary wildly and possess more random body parts in otherworldly dimensions than you can shake a stick at. A couple of these hybrids are even main characters.
* Averted in Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/BrothersOfEarth''. A human man is isolated amongst humanoid aliens, but finds a place with them and gets married. Nobody expects the marriage to produce children and it is agreed that he and his wife will try for children for a year and after that the head of the household will step in.

* Subverted early on in the {{Franchise/Mistborn}} series. There are the nobility and the skaa. While it's fairly obvious to the reader early on that they're all human (or, more technically, [[spoiler:a variation of humans tweaked by the Lord Ruler to survive the increasingly CrapsackWorld]]) members of both the nobility and the skaa believe that there's an actual difference to varying degrees. The nobility are the ones that have Allomancy (read "magic") and are forbidden to interbreed with the skaa. But the sheer number of skaa with Allomantic powers (one of the jobs of the [[EliteMooks Steel Inquisitors]] is to root out skaa with Allomancy) shows this rule is largely ignored in reality although there are some references to nobles killing skaa after having sex with them to avoid "half breeds."

* In ''Literature/FairyTalesOfMourania'' Halfbloods are the spawn of humans and supernatural creatures. MainCharacter Sept is a half-mermaid. They face FantasticRacism along with other humans with magical traits.