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(Just re-reading:) Didonians referred to as Heesh (three entities, a sort of rhino, monkey, and bird -- krippo, noga, ruka - connected to form a higher intelligent entity than the sum of the parts) in The Rebel Worlds by Paul Anderson?
Jabba the Hutt ?

OK … name five intelligent alien species who are, on a human scale, very large. For the avoidance of doubt this means at least twice the height and/or mass of an adult human being, and by "intelligent" I mean able to hold conversations, discuss abstract ideas, etc. Bonus points if they're technolog...

[...]Aeryn Sun / Claudia Black from Farscape.....mmm her bio says she was a pilot but i dont remember her flying anything.. Pilot flew the ship... <oh, no, not Aeryn :-D > Well, she didn't actually teleport on Moya, right? She deliberately piloted her Prowler in, during the first episode. Just chuc...

... and just to cover up if the anime/non-spaceship pilots don't qualify :

Angel Deveraux and Rosie Forbes in Wing Commander (the movie, 1999)

Bonus: Carmen Ibanez (Rico's girlfriend) in Starship Troopers (the movie, 1997)

Kara Thrace, aka Starbuck - Battlestar Galactica Aeryn Sun - Farscape <going for the ladder, mumbling something about the low hanging fruits> Vansen and Damphousse in Space Above and Beyond TV series. Beka Valentine in Andromeda (although the captain and pilot of Eureka Maru, she was the "official"...

Aeryn Sun in Farscape.

(same picture )
Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG1.

cbr wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:34 pm

That purple girl with that guy from Hercules eh...

Trance Gemini

Trance Gemini in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
And here you have it people, #5 wholesome!

All hail cbr!

Disembodied wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:19 am

Gregory Benford's Eater features a sentient black hole [...] so it probably doesn't count.

It doesn't. The initial star should've presented sentience, too, at least.

ffutures wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:02 pm

Would the Prophets in Deep Space 9 count? [...]

No ... but it's getting warmer in here!

ffutures wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:53 pm

Sorry, Dogsbody it is - the perils of answering from memory!

Star Maker by Stapledon qualifies, I think.

We have a #4.

One more! ... maybe someone will come with something else than books ... !?

Starchild and Rogue Star by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson Sirius by Diana Wynne Jones? Not sure if it counts as SF, fantasy, or magic realism of sorts. There's a sentient white hole in Diane Duane's So You Want To be a Wizard , but that's more fantasy than SF. Ditto the fallen star in Neil Gaim...

Cody wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:14 pm

Do the Calebans count?

#1
Of course they do! The Whipping Star series by Frank Herbert is one of the three examples I already thought of

Ok, let's try to follow on the five example route: 5 sci-fi works where stars are an intelligent species.

The Whilte Plague by Frank Herbert?
The Day After Tomorrow -- movie?

OK: name five alien species who have successfully* conquered/taken control of the Earth. <Hah, you really had the time to think this over :) - or was it a curse that might've hit the forum ?> Nietzscheans in Andromeda series (Gene Roddenberry's)? Also Gene Roddenberry's Taelons/Companions in Earth ...