Serpent's Reach

'''Cherryh, C. J. (Carolyn Janice Cherry). Serpent's Reach.''' (c) 1980. New York: DAW, n.d. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, n.d. [S. F.] Book Club Edition.

S. F. adventure with strong women characters and interesting parallels to both R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers and S. M. Charnas's Walk to the End of the World (q.v.,) but of interest here primarily for an insectoid hive-mind associated with logic and math, and seen more positively than is usual (in male-written stories). See for a human way involving cloning and conditioning humans; cf. F. Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive, cited in this Wiki.