List of fictional sentient planets

This is a list of fictional sentient planets, planets in fiction which are said to be alive or intelligent.

Living/sentient planets

  • The Yuuzhan Vong homeworld from the Star Wars universe.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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´s 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
  • Petaybee, from the Petaybee Series (Powers series) by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • 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.

See also

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

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