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