Sentient planets

• Moosevan in The Planet Dweller and Moving Moosevan
• the planetary consciousness in Daughters of an Emerald Dusk by Katherine Forrest
• Gaea hypothesis -- David Brin's Earth
• John Varley's Gaean trilogy: Titan, Wizard, Demon
• the star in Frank Herbert's Whipping Star... not quite a planet, but close enough
• some Sheri S. Tepper
• "The Lonely Planet" Murray Leinster
• Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough in Powers That Be, Power Lines, and Power Play
• Qherrique in Sylvia Kelso's Amberlight -- not a planet but a geological feature / substance / entity

Queries

Are there any male planetary consciousnesses?