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Hellstrom's Hive is a 1973 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert

Hellstrom's Hive is a 1973 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It is about a secret group of humans who model their lives upon social insects, and the unsettling events that unfold after they are discovered by a deeply undercover agency of the US government. Dr. Nils Hellstrom, an entomologist, is a successful film maker and influential scientific advisor with strong political ties.

Science Fiction Masterworks Volume 91. eGod. The book is not a tie-in; it’s a kind of tie-out: a deliberate metamorphosis of one text into something much richer and stranger. In place of the effective but rather simple-minded documentary narrative of the film, Herbert creates a compelling apocalyptic thriller. Where The Hellstrom Chronicle is interested in insects, Herbert shifts the focus to people. Herbert’s name is most closely associated with Dune (1965), his hugely influential planetary romance.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory.

Originally published under the title PROJECT 40 in Galaxy Magazine (November 1972 - March 1973); published by arrangement with Bantam Books. The Academy Award-winning, quasi-documentary film "The Hellstrom Chronicle," released in 1971, was the inspiration for Herbert's novel. 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.

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America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. 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.

By the stance you take against the universe, it is possible to destroy yourself.

By the stance you take against the universe, it is possible to destroy yourself ned left again down a side ramp and, at the ramp’s end, when a car appeared, he entered the open gap of an express elevator. He jumped out of the moving car at level fifty-one into another wide gallery, but this one showed less activity than the upper chambers and conveyed a deep sense of cushioned stillness even in the activity it did possess

Hellstrom's Hive - Frank Herbert. From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter.

Hellstrom's Hive - Frank Herbert. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural selection and removed all previous limits on the amount of specialization (expressed as caste differences) that a colony could tolerate.

Words of the brood mother, Trova Hellstrom

This work was originally published under the title PROJECT 40 in Galaxy Magazine. Words of the brood mother, Trova Hellstrom. I welcome the day when I will go into the vats and become one with all of our people. Dated October 26, 1896. THE MAN with the binoculars squirmed forward on his stomach through the sun-warmed brown grass.