[Pulpmeister]

In science fiction and fantasy, with imagined and created cultures, you have all sorts of opportunities for creating names which seem to make sense and have consistency within the world.

Imagine a society with - Greek pantheon fashion - an all-powerful major God or Goddess, and a court of lesser goddesses. Call the all-powerful god, for instant, Abar.

Many names common today are contructed with elements of gods' names. Do the same. So several characters could have 'ab', aba' 'bar' or 'abar' as elements in their names. Not all of course, just a sprinkling.

The elements, combined with suffixes and prefixes, open room for other names similarly structured using other gods. This then gives you a sort of overall style of names where you can make up names which have no god elemnts, but seem to belong to that culture.

With several different alien cultures in one book, several different sets of cultural touchstones will almost automatically give inspiration for another set of names.

And place names of course. If you have your fictional geography mapped out, your have roots for numerous other names. Throw in patronymics and matronymics and you've got an infinite variety.

Then choose the ones which are easy to type without tangling your fingers every time.