Hellstrom's Hive — Frank Herbert

The hellish hive in Oregon

The time: The 1970's, Police State, U.S.A.

The all-powerful secret government agency wanted Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40. But it also knew that Hellstrom was dangerous. Any move to investigate his hidden farm must be very carefully made.

A team of operatives was sent to invade a world of insect-humans more fearful than even the agency's chief suspected. A world where specially- bred scientists with huge heads and stunted legs developed weapons that hummed with deadly insect venom...chemically neutered workers with a sting that could poison the world...hidden tunnels immune to atomic fission...hormones for endless hyped-up sex orgies...and the vats in which everyone finally ended to nourish future generations of human insects!