- Insect societies, Fiction, American Science fiction, Swarm intelligence
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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Grave, epic, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Frank Herbert
- First published
- October 1, 1978
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Heyne Verlag, J'ai Lu, Corgi
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781400105649
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Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the series is a classic of the science-fiction genre. The series has been adapted numerous times, including the feature film David Lynch's Dune (1984), the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003), and a motion picture trilogy currently in production, with Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024)
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