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Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert
01/06/2007 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: TOR/Forge. 332 page enlarged paperback. Price: $14.95 (US), $15.50 (CAN). ISBN: 978-0-765-31772-8. Buy Hellstrom's Hive in the USA - or Buy Hellstrom's Hive in the UK  check out website: www.tor-forge.com
It's hard to believe that 'Hellstrom's Hive' is some 34 years old or that I first read it in the mid-80s. Its also long over-due for a re-release for a new generation.
Government agents investigating Project 40, created by Dr. Nils Hellstrom are staggered when they discover that mankind is being turned into an insect hive organisation in more ways than one. These humans and insects have become a symbiosis and will not let anything get in their way. How extreme this becomes is explored over the course of this novel.
There haven't been many novels taking the insect possibilities commune very far and when they have, it wasn't on Earth. Frank Herbert's work is a no-holds barred depiction which is as much horror as Science Fiction and frankly, I'm amazed on film-maker has never considered this as a choice for another film from the creator of 'Dune'.
This story is extremely well thought out and deserves to be titled a 'classic'. People tend to forget the other books Frank Herbert wrote. In some respects, 'Dune' and its sequels have hidden a great deal of the other work he has done and this one is amongst his best.
GF Willmetts
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