Hellstrom's hive
By: Frank Herbert
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Swarm intelligence -- Fiction.; Insects -- Behavior -- Fiction.; Human evolution -- Fiction.; Weapons systems -- Fiction.; Compliance -- Fiction.; Group identity -- Fiction.; Science fiction, American.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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: 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.