sophonts

Some viewers have posited that defections among non-human sophonts can be chiefly attributed to the working conditions present on those two worlds and ones like them along with a general atmosphere of inequality felt by many non-human species.

It's Christmas On Hoth 2005

Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become more important than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.

O'BSERVATIONS: "THE END OF THE WORLD" Toby O'B 2005

The tourist shuttle came to a stop in front of the Fat Chance Casino, disembarking a small crowd of sophonts of assorted shapes, sizes, and colors, with luggage to match.

Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

But the lizardlike aliens preferred an environment that most of the Alliance races found oppressively hot and therefore tended to settle planets closer to the primaries than those settled by other sophonts.

Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

The Skroderiders were one of the most common sophonts in the Beyond.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

Even the Alliance's own reports admit that less than half of Sjandra Kei's sophonts were of that race.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

Even from here, it was obvious they were different from any sophonts Pham had encountered: Clusters of four or five or six members hung together so close they seemed a single spiderlike being.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The Blight admits that it is a Power that tele-operates sophonts in the Beyond.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The crew of the Out of Band II brought weapons into a habitat, kill several local sophonts, and escaped before our musicians [harmonizers? police?] were properly notified.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

You see, nothin 'has turned up in the mountains; but Tigeries do tell about islands with what may be natural formations but might also be ruined walls, except that Imhotep never had any native sophonts.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985