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.
*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.
*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.

ee also

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