Help from Unexpected Places by wild-force71 (author’s journal)

Main Character: John
Rating: PG-13
Genre: gen, fix-it of episodes
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Ever since John Sheppard stepped onto Atlantis, the city’s been waking. Now he’s woken something he can’t shut off.
Story length: ~58,600 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Teyla, Lorne, Zelenka
Means of communication Atlantis uses: hologram
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: helpful, protective
It’s unclear whether Atlantis takes any independant action.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

The Skywalker Factor by darkmoore (author’s journal)

Pairing: John/Rodney, Lorne/Radek
Rating: R
Genre: mpreg
Author’s Summary or Teaser: John had suspected for a while now, that Atlantis might be sentient. He hadn’t thought she’d be insane, though.
Story length: ~8,900 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: lonely, invasive
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

Women’s Work by Rachael Sabotini

Women’s Work by Rachael Sabotini (author’s journal and website)

Pairing: Miko/Laura
Rating: PG
Genre: drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Antarctica taught Miko that context was everything.
Story length: ~3300 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: Miko
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: nurturing
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

White Noise by Domenika Marzione (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: John
Rating: G
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Set in the first week of the Atlantis expedition (circa “Hide & Seek”), John Sheppard fails to avoid participating in an Athosian rite. He’s supposed to be thinking on his past ties, but instead ends up thinking about his newest relationship — with a city that kindamaybesorta talks to him.
Story length: ~3200 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
Atlantis does not take independant action that affects others, i.e. does not meddle.
Atlantis’ sex, if any, is unclear.

Where the Ocean Meets the Sky series by Khriskin (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: Atlantis
Rating: PG to PG-13
Genre: gen, AU, drabbles, darkfic
Author’s Summary or Teaser: For ten thousand years the city slept beneath the sea, dreaming of people she’d never met. Faces, names, lives all carefully teased from a mind in stasis, oblivious to her interrogation. Because Atlantis can wait, but she wants to know who she’s waiting for. – This is the story of the city that might have been. An AI created to guide the Atlantis Expedition Janus knew was coming. An electronic symbiote limited by the harsh lessons learned from the Asurans. A powerful ally, hidden safely away and waiting…
Story length: so far ten 100 word drabbles and one ~350 word ficlet; ~1,350 words for the whole series

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: others, Rodney
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental, avatar
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: possessive
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

What the Chair Sees: A Side Story by slybrarian slybrarian (author’s journal)

(from the Sides verse by Archae_ology and slybrarian)

Main Characters: Chuck, John/Lorne
Rating: NC-17
Genre: humor
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Instead of an explanation, Chuck suddenly found an image projected into his head. It was almost as though he was in Sheppard’s quarters, where – holy shit! Holy shit!
Story length: ~400 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: Chuck
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: helpful, protective
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is regarded as female.

The Welcome Wagon’s Greasy Wheel by Domenika Marzione (author’s journal and website)

Main Character: OC, John
Rating: PG-213
Genre: gen, drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: To the ATA carriers among the marines arriving in Atlantis, the city is one part eager puppy and three parts surreal hell.
Story length: ~3300 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: OCs, John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: direct
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: eager to chat?
Atlantis does not take independant action that affects others, i.e. does not meddle.
Atlantis is not regarded as female.

We Now Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Crisis by siegeofangels (author’s journal)

(prequel: High as Heaven)

Pairing: John/Rodney
Rating: R
Genre: drama, humor
Author’s Summary or Teaser: This is a story about sex and power. And, um, monkeys and PowerPoint. (And love.)
Story length: ~8100 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: Rodney, John
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: love
It’s unclear whether Atlantis takes any independant action.
Atlantis is referred to as female.

Watching John by Michele Cross (author’s journal)

Main Characters: Atlantis, everyone
Rating: G
Genre: gen, drama, ep related
Author’s Summary or Teaser: Atlantis’s perspective on the arrival of the Expedition.
Story length: ~9800 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Rodney, Elizabeth, Carson
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental, indirect
Atlantis expresses the following feelings: happiness, protectiveness
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is referred to as female.

Watch the Sun Sink Like a Stone by Telesilla (author’s journal and website)

Pairing: John/Rodney
Rating: PG-13
Genre: drama
Author’s Summary or Teaser: “Tell them that I missed him every single day and night after that, but that I never regretted any of it.”
Story length: ~2900 words

In the story, Atlantis shows the following specific signs of sentience:
Atlantis targets and/or communicates with: John, Madison
Means of communication Atlantis uses: mental
Atlantis doesn’t express any specific feelings.
Atlantis takes independant action that affects others, i.e. meddles into the affairs of others.
Atlantis is not regarded as female.