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* Subverted in the third book of [[John Varley]]'s [[Gaea Trilogy]]. Yes, there is a giant sand worm; Gaea herself has created and placed it, no doubt directly inspired by Earth fiction. It's miles long, it's probably hungry (it has ''turned'' the original landscape into the desert it is now)...and it moves so slowly that it's basically just a living terrain feature. Some of the passing humans cut graffiti into its skin.
* Diggles in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Xanth]]'' series are giant worms that could phase through solid rock and literally worked for a song.
* Another [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] example is [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Krayt_Dragon Greater Krayt Dragons], ridiculously huge ten-legged dragons that mostly ate banthas, but there's an illustration in ''The Wildlife of Star Wars'' of one digging up and eating a ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906133750/http://msngroup.aimoo.com/IcewindDaleGamers/krayt_dragon_lg.jpg sarlaac]'' . Usually they stayed buried in the sand.
** They exist in canon. The skeleton of one can be seen when C3-PO is alone on Tatooine.
** Tatooine also has [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dune_worm dune worms], which... are basically exact [[Expy]]s of sand worms.
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