Timeline for An old novel about a sentient planetary organism, but not an ocean, so not Solaris [duplicate]
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| Nov 6, 2023 at 10:52 | comment | added | Alfred | @AlexanderKlauer No problem. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 9:59 | history | closed | John Rennie story-identification Users with the story-identification badge or a synonym can single-handedly close story-identification questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Title of novel with girl who can read minds by observing body language, later communicates with a hive mind on an alien planet's surface | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 9:46 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 6, 2023 at 9:14 | comment | added | Alexander Klauer | @Alfred For some reason none of the answers showed up for me when I made that comment. Sorry for the noise. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 9:02 | comment | added | Alfred | @AlexanderKlauer Well, if the answer (namely Nemesis) hadn't been found by DavidW I might have tried to find a summary, but it is moot now. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 8:53 | vote | accept | Alfred | ||
| Nov 6, 2023 at 8:42 | comment | added | Alexander Klauer | "Legacy" by Greg Bear comes to mind. It has just humans and the planetary organism. I don't remember whether the organism was actually sentient, though (sorry, it's been too long since I read it). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_(novel_series)#Legacy | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 6:38 | comment | added | releseabe | i am guessing a planet or star being sentient is one of the oldest themes in mythology including science fiction (if that counts as mythology or myths count as fiction) -- I have wondered if ancient greeks who named the planets after gods may have thought planets were conscious entities. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 5:42 | answer | added | Ethan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 5:41 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 4:09 | comment | added | Alfred | @DavidW I'm not saying the whole planet is intelligent. The sentience may be limited to the flora, or on one part of the planet only, I am not sure. Just that is looks "global", not composed of apparently individual sentients who are really part of a bigger whole, like Asimov's Gaia. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 4:05 | answer | added | DavidW | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 3:58 | comment | added | DavidW | @Alfred Thanks, your edit helps narrow it down a lot. The fact that both the intelligent planet and humans appear also leaves out works like Clarke's short story "Crusade." (Obviously it doesn't match as a short story, but it's a different take on the "intelligent planet" idea.) | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 3:58 | comment | added | Alfred | @Shawn Not as I remember, I don't think so. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 3:52 | history | edited | Alfred | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2023 at 3:17 | comment | added | Shawn | Was it set on a water world? | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 3:14 | history | edited | Alfred | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2023 at 2:49 | history | edited | Alfred | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2023 at 2:41 | comment | added | Alfred | @DavidW I know the short fiction (short story or just maybe novelette) "Green Patches" and it is clearly not it. To avoid the problems about possible dupe, do you mind giving a few details on each of the two other choices in a formal answer, so I can compare with my memories, or get by myself afterwards more details on wiki or other sources ? If I do it now before you write a formal answer it might become a dupe immediately... | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 2:34 | comment | added | DavidW | There are a lot of these in fiction. If it's the planet itself it might be "Here There be Tygers;" if it's just the flora it could be Midworld; if it's the fauna perhaps "Green Patches." | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 1:46 | history | asked | Alfred | CC BY-SA 4.0 |