| 1937 Astounding Stories Aug. 23/1
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A cold cloud of darkness followed after him, implacable in its alien sentience.
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| 1954 P. Anderson Brain Wave xx. 120
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Corinth's memory went back over what he had seen, the mountains and oceans and forests of whole worlds, the life which blossomed in splendor or struggled only to live, and the sentience which had arisen to take blind nature in hand.
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| 1991 T. Bisson They're Made Out of Meat in Bears discover Fire (1993) 35
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‘Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?’‘First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual.’
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| 1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep xxv. 187
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Four or five billion years ago, Someone built the first skrodes and raised the first Riders to sentience.
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| 1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep xxxii. 254
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Imagine: a stable necrosis, where the only sentience in the High Beyond is the Blight.
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| 1994 B. Hambly Crossroad ix. 120
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Yet no instrumentally for transport—not even evidence of sentience—was ever found.
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| 1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 132/2
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Group members possess sentience when operating individually.
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| 1999 I. MacDonald Days of Solomon Gursky 253
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PanLife, that amorphous, multi-faceted cosmic infection of human, trans-human, non-human, PanHuman sentiences, had filled the universe long before the continuum reached its elastic limit and began to contract under the weight of dark matter and heavy neutrinos.
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| 2000 L. Norman Stronghold Rising v. 160
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He reached up to touch her face, tracing the iridescent markings around her eyes with a careful fingertip. She was altogether different from the females of his own time—even excluding her sentience and lack of ferocity. Smaller, lighter in build, she was pleasing to all his senses.
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| 2000 A. Reynolds Revelation Space (2001) 448
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They might have been alien in their biology, inspiring a kind of visceral revulsion simply because they were so far from what the human mind considered the right and proper form for sentience.
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| 2001 T. Zahn Angelmass xxviii. 264
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‘What would you say‥if I told you I think Angelmass has become sentient?’‘I'd probably say you'd been working too hard‥it's a black hole. A fruitcake would have more chance of spontaneously developing sentience than it would.’
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