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
- Acheron from the computer game Unreal 2 is entirely covered by a single, sentient organism.
- Alcoreth from Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat's 1931 short story "The Menace from Andromeda".
- Alter-Ego, Ego's twin from Marvel Comics.
- 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 and appearing within the subconsciousness as a Doctor.
- The Duck Planet, from the popular series of Duck Fight games. In episode 2 it was revealed that the Ducks had come from another planet, in an unspecified galaxy "not far from Earth".
- Earth from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story When The World Screamed.
- 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
- G889, an Earth-like planet from the short lived TV series Earth 2.
- 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
- Gozmastar from the Super Sentai series Dengeki Sentai Changeman.
- Id the Selfish Moon, who was once Ego's moon from Marvel Comics
- Kathulos, a living planet that served Shuma-Gorath in Marvel Comics. It was destroyed by Doctor Strange.
- 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, orbiting a Red Sun.
- 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 star-faring races which have visited the planets. It is unclear to what extent Juggler worlds are independently 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
- Primus, a planet from the tv show Ben 10 Alien Force the planet is a massive organic machine that holds the DNA from sentient life and wirelessly communicates with the omnitrix.
- Planet Remina from the Junji Ito Manga Hellstar Remina
- 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.
- Triton, a living planet encountered by the crew of a space exploration ship from the book, 'Triton is a Planet's Name' (Triton Ekti Groher Naam) by author Md Jaffar Iqbal.
- 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.
- Pandora, from the film Avatar.
- Solaris V, from the film Gatekeeper
- Yggardis the Sorcerer Planet, from DC comics
See also