List of fictional living planets

This is a list of fictional living planets, planets in fiction which are said to be alive, and in some cases, intelligent. This includes worlds covered by a single immense organism (such as Solaris) or whose biosphere is composed of organisms which are linked into a hive mind.

Living/sentient planets

  • The Yuuzhan Vong homeworld from the Star Wars universe.
  • Acheron from the computer game Unreal 2 is entirely covered by a single, sentient organism.
  • Alyx, covering the eponymous planet except the poles in Murray Leinster's The Lonely Planet (1949)
  • Chiron (often known simply as "Planet") from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  • Dahak, from David Weber's Mutineers Moon, a planetoid sized battleship masquerading as Earth's moon.
  • The Doctor Moon from "The Library" episode of Doctor Who, a massive sentient computer made to look like a moon, orbiting a planet-wide library, scanning to protect the library's central database from viruses and hackers.
  • Ego the Living Planet from Marvel Comics
  • Erythro from Isaac Asimov's novel Nemesis
  • Eylor, from Rifts, a living world said to be the source of the magical Eyes of Eylor, living disembodied eyes of great power.
  • Fairy, from the novel and OVA Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze.
  • Fannie Mae a sentient star in Frank Herbert's novel "Whipping Star" and "The Dosadi Experiment"
  • First Sirian Bank from Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun
  • Gaea, a sentient artificial space habitat, from the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard & Daemon) by John Varley.
  • Gaia from Foundation's Edge, by Isaac Asimov. The name is derived from the Gaia hypothesis
  • Ghroth from Ramsey Campbell, a contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos
  • The Krang, a moon-sized weapons platform built by the Tar-Aiym, in Alan Dean Foster's The Tar-Aiym Krang
  • Mogo, from the Green Lantern Corps comic books, is not only alive, but also an appointed member of the Corps.
  • Ōban, a living (though not quite sentient) planet larger than Earth's sun that can actually create other planets, from Ōban Star-Racers
  • Pandarve, from the Storm comic books, is not only alive, but also has the status of a goddess
  • Various worlds spread across the galaxy in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space universe are inhabited by Pattern Jugglers, networks of marine organisms which serve as vast information-cataloging systems, recording the minds of various starfaring races which have visited the planets. It is unclear to what extent Juggler worlds are indepentantly sentient.
  • Petaybee, from the Petaybee Series (Powers series) by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Phaaze, an evil sentient planet from the Metroid Prime series.
  • Scub Coral, from the television show Eureka Seven
  • Solaris, the planet in the eponymous novel by Stanisław Lem and 1972 and 2002 films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh, is covered by a sentient ocean.
  • Unicron, from the Transformers Multiverse.
  • Primus/Cybertron, also from the Transformers Multiverse.
  • Worm Planet, from The Power Twins by Ken Follett.
  • Wormwood, from Rifts.
  • Zonama Sekot, a living world from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
  • Swiborg, from Infinity Flight.

See also

  • Planets in science fiction
  • Group mind (science fiction)
  • Gaia hypothesis
  • Graha

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