Nobita and his friends have visited the age of the dinosaurs, the far reaches of the galaxy, the heart of darkest Africa ( where they encountered a race of sentient bipedal dogs ), the depths of the ocean, and a world of magic.

This can be seen in such works as Midworld, about a semi-sentient planet that is essentially one large rainforest, and Cachalot, set on an ocean world populated by sentient cetaceans.

: 自皈依法 ， 當願眾生 ， 深入經藏 ， 智慧如海 。( I take refuge in the Dharma, wishing for all sentient beings to deeply delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge.

Whilst this operation was a success, they are unable to spend their winnings as the Island started to drift into the ocean ( it turns out the island was sentient ).

* In the 1976 novel by Terry Pratchett, The Dark Side of the Sun, a sentient planet, ocean and sun speculate about the existence of an intelligent gas cloud

The world of Ravnica is an ecumenopolis, a vast city that covers the entire surface of its planet, and is home to a diverse assortment of sentient races.

Artists and sculptors tried to find this ideal order in relation with mathematics, but they believed that this ideal order revealed itself not so much to the dispassionate intellect, as to the whole sentient self.

Essentially the equivalent of race supremacy on a galactic scale, it entails intolerant discrimination against sentient non-humans, much like race supremacists discriminate against those not of their race.

" Bentham and Singer both argue, for example, that to deprive an animal of its whole life is a greater loss to that sentient individual compared to the benefit of satisfying another sentient individual's senses, in this case the sense of taste which is a mere desire or preference for a certain taste ( a temporary sensory experience ), given that one does not even live less years by becoming a vegetarian or vegan and thus one is only benefitting in terms of the temporary sensory pleasure ; applying this to humans versus other humans, Singer argues that to deprive a man of the right not to be tortured would, similarly, be a great loss to most men when we ask ourselves how much they lose by not having that right, whereas a man losing a right to give birth ( or right to have an abortion ) is not considered to be any loss at all because he cannot get pregnant in the first place, thus the right not to be tortured is obviously, Singer argues, a more important right for males than a nonsensical right for males to give birth ( or to elect to have abortions ).

The collection of sentient, loyal rats ( thanks to the unintentional influence of the Unseen University ) with access to the dungeons, and much of the palace itself, provides a well-secured backup escape plan ; during a conflict with the palace's snake and scorpion populations Vetinari provided them with military advice, allowing them to become the palace's dominant vermin.

However, he is much better with inanimate objects and animals and begins to display sentient characteristics ( such as creativity ; emotion ; self-awareness ) traditionally the province of humans.

Besides the psychohistorians, much of the novel's action revolves around advanced sentient simulations ( sims ) of Joan of Arc and Voltaire.

However, psychohistory cannot predict the actions of a sentient alien race ; their psychology may differ so much from that of humans that normal psychohistory cannot understand or predict their actions.

As a kind of sub-plot it is revealed that beneath Thalassa's oceans there live sentient beings similar to the sea scorpions of Earth, only much larger.

Dweller society, which tries not to get involved with " Quick " i. e. all species of sentient beings who experience life at around the speed human beings experience it, in contrast to " Slow " species such as themselves, who experience life at a much slower temporal rate.

The series makes much use of the Three Laws of Robotics and their interpretations and interactions when dealing with obscure scenarios, such as levels or priority in conflicting orders, a human brain in a robot body, and do the laws apply to non-human, but sentient beings.

He only appeared as an animate being to Billy, Mary and later Dudley, ( much in the same way that Hobbes only appears sentient to Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes ).

The Flood, which spread through infestation of sentient life, overran much of the Milky Way Galaxy.

and the central scene of Pixar's " Up " Don Hertzfeld ’ s animated short Billy ’ s Balloon bears a strong resemblance to the film, namely in its being about a sentient red balloon and an intrigued child, and both end with a gathering of other sentient balloons, though Billy's Balloon is much darker.

;: " The Limit of Life ", called the " Limit of Questions " in the English version of the series, is the theory that too much sentient life in a given space will collapse reality, resulting in a black hole-like tear in space that would absorb the entire planet.

His efforts reveal that the craze for the dessert is far deadlier and much more evil than anyone had believed – the Stuff is actually a living, parasitic, and possibly sentient organism, and it gradually takes over the brain, mutating those who eat it into bizarre zombie-like creatures before consuming them from the inside and leaving them empty shells of their former selves.

Rictor and his friends spent much time living on the sentient craft named ' Ship '.

In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the human beings who are analyzing it.

Conflict and interaction between the various alien species on Jorune drove some of the drama of individual adventures, as did the exploration of the planet's surface, which was littered with powerful prehistoric artifacts originating variously with the initial Human settlement ( typically blaster weapons and other " advanced technology ") or the Shanthas, the native sentient lifeform ( typically instruments for Isho manipulation ).

Commander McConnell's last journal entry can be found on the surface of the Crystal Planet ; in it, he shares his discovery that endurium is actually a race of living, sentient beings who are being burned up as fuel for interstellar travel.

The planet itself was devoid of sentient life, but robotic war machines were found on its surface, and humans have since learned to control them telepathically ( allowing the humans themselves to stay out of harm's way ).

The surface of the planet Pandora is 80 % seas, and the sea is dominated by a type of kelp which appears to be sentient.

* Solaris — A planet covered by a single sentient organism in the book of that name by Stanisław Lem.

A later encounter with a villainous sentient sun from the future known as " Solaris " would reveal a future where Superman is still alive approximately 83, 000 years in the future, leading him to speculate that death may never come for him.

In the 853rd century Solaris is a secondary artificial sun, a sentient machine in the orbit of Uranus that helps to warm the outer parts of the solar system and relay communications and information.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

Merlin has been studying computer science on Earth while constructing a secret project called Ghostwheel, a sentient computer based on the Trumps that Merlin hopes will be able to locate Corwin, who vanished after visiting the Courts of Chaos in the previous novel.

* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.

The novel is loosely related to the future history into which he attempted to integrate his science fiction output, connecting several ideas from earlier and later novels, including non-human intelligence, sentient planets ( Erythro ), and rotor engines ( Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain ).

In the 1997 novel Great Apes by Will Self, an old Exonian, the author imagines an Earth where chimpanzees have evolved as the dominant, sentient species.

* China Miéville's 1998 novel King Rat reimagines the Pied Piper as a flautist adding samples to drum and bass music and is opposed by sentient rats in London.

As the novel opens, it is revealed that Calebans, who are beings visible to other sentient species as stars, have been disappearing one by one.

It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.

52 different sentient species ( including earth-humanity ) exist in the novel.

* The Wormholersfiction novel about a planet beyond a wormhole inhabited by sentient whales

* Advanced Logistic & Inconsequence Cognizing Equipment, an advanced sentient artificial intelligence in the Gundam Sentinel novel

In Robert Holdstock's fantasy novel Ancient Echoes, Glanum is a sentient, living, moving city which eventually settles at its present site in Provence.

A team of scientists develop a laser satellite-controlling computer system called MAAX ( Meteoroid and Asteroid Exploder ) to destroy the meteoroid ; however, MAAX develops a personality of its own ( in an obvious parody of the sentient computer HAL from the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ) and refuses to save the planet unless Earth's scientists can solve seven science riddles.

* Wake ( Robert J. Sawyer novel ), a 2009 Robert J. Sawyer novel about a sentient internet

* In the 1995 novel Earthfall, part of the Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card, humans are referred to as " the Old Ones " by the two sentient, indigenous species of the Earth.

As presented in the novel, the concept sometimes refers to a form of inquiry, specifically an attempt to determine whether non-human sentient systems are truly independent minds, or whether they are merely " parrots " that give back to human researchers what the researchers expect to hear.

Eventually, Entreri stole a deadly, sentient, ancient, evil blade forged by the Netherese called Charon's Claw in the novel Servant of the Shard.

* The ( non-canonical ) novel Memory Prime by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens was written as a sequel to " The Lights of Zetar ", featuring Scotty's reunion with Mira Romaine and a successor facility to Memory Alpha equipped with about a dozen sentient artificially intelligent systems.

* The Jokers in Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun ( 1976 ), who predate all the sentient species in the novel, leaving behind artefacts and a cryptic poem.

The novel deals with a government installation at Blind Lake, Minnesota, where scientists observe sentient life on a planet 51 light-years away, using telescopes powered by quantum computers that have advanced beyond human understanding.

The novel also contains a very original gestalt alien race referred to by the humans as ' Brothers ', composed of non-sentient worm-like creatures ( Cords ) that join to form sentient individuals ( Braids ).

In the Faction Paradox novel Of the City of the Saved ... by Philip Purser-Hallard, Compassion established an afterlife known as The City of the Saved for all humans and human-descended sentient beings.