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Hellstrom's hive / by Frank Herbert.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert, Frank
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swarm intelligence--Fiction.
- Swarm intelligence.
- Insects--Behavior--Fiction.
- Insects.
- Human evolution--Fiction.
- Human evolution.
- Weapons systems--Fiction.
- Weapons systems.
- Compliance--Fiction.
- Compliance.
- Group identity--Fiction.
- Group identity.
- Science fiction, American.
- Insects--Behavior.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (autograph, November 1973)(donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1973]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "This work was originally published under the title Project 40 in Galaxy Magazine."
- Cover art: David K. Stone.
- First printing has gutter code "42P" on page 277, indicates a printing date of October '73; a November selection of the SFBC
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code. Has folder to join the Science Fiction Book Club laid in.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 256030
- Other Format:
- Online version: Herbert, Frank. Hellstrom's Hive.
- OCLC:
- 16790209
- Publisher Number:
- 01705 Science Fiction Book Club
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