America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: a beehive-like commune of humans who behave like insects and who possess insect powers far outstripping those of mortal men. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses - it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific than even …
Hellstrom's hive
Frank Herbert: Hellstrom's hive (1973, Nelson Doubleday)
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America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: a beehive-like commune of humans who behave like insects and who possess insect powers far outstripping those of mortal men. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses - it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific than even their paranoid government minds could devise : an unconquerable super-weapon that could vaporize whole cities in seconds and could condemn Earth's helpless masses to Hellstrom's twisted version of existence forever.
278 pages
English language
Published Sept. 22, 1973 by Nelson Doubleday.
Subjects
- Swarm intelligence -- Fiction.
- Insects -- Behavior -- Fiction.
- Human evolution -- Fiction.
- Weapons systems -- Fiction.
- Compliance -- Fiction.
- Group identity -- Fiction.
- Science fiction, American.