Hellstrom's Hive

'''Herbert, Frank. Hellstrom's Hive.''' Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. New York: Bantam, 1974. Originally published as "Project 40," Galaxy Nov.-Dec. 1972 to March-April 1973.

The Hive is an underground world of machines and people: a society intentionally striving to imitate the social insects. The opposition outside the Hive is a nasty espionage bureaucracy called only "the Agency."