Series
Hive
T. J. Bass · 2 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 1969–1974
T. J. Bass's Hive novels imagine a grim, wildly overpopulated far-future Earth run by a vast hive-mind bureaucracy that treats most of humanity as disposable. Half Past Human, fixed up from two earlier stories, follows outcasts living outside the Hive's control; The Godwhale continues the setting generations later around a resurrected cyborg whale-ship.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Hive at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s4
Shape
2 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictiongenetic engineeringother star systemsfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Half Past Humandarkest
- Rorqual Marubrightest · calmest
- The Godwhalemost intense