(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 ?
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- Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:28 pm
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- Wed Dec 04, 2019 5:15 pm
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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...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:28 pm
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[...]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...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:24 pm
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... and just to cover up if the anime/non-spaceship pilots don't qualify
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Angel Deveraux and Rosie Forbes in Wing Commander (the movie, 1999)
Bonus: Carmen Ibanez (Rico's girlfriend) in Starship Troopers (the movie, 1997)

Angel Deveraux and Rosie Forbes in Wing Commander (the movie, 1999)
Bonus: Carmen Ibanez (Rico's girlfriend) in Starship Troopers (the movie, 1997)
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:03 pm
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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"...
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 12:41 am
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Aeryn Sun in Farscape.
(same picture

Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG1.
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 2:51 am
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- Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:30 pm
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It doesn't. The initial star should've presented sentience, too, at least.Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 9:19 amGregory Benford's Eater features a sentient black hole [...] so it probably doesn't count.
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:21 am
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- Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:06 am
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- Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:03 am
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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...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:53 am
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- Fri Nov 01, 2019 3:42 pm
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Ok, let's try to follow on the five example route: 5 sci-fi works where stars are an intelligent species.
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:21 pm
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The Whilte Plague by Frank Herbert?
The Day After Tomorrow -- movie?
The Day After Tomorrow -- movie?
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:21 am
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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 ...