TY - ABST T1 - High-Opp Y1 - 2012 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society using manipulated public opinion polls to place people in one of the two statuses available, the Labor pool at the bottom and the "High-Opps" at the top. The novel follows one man from the High-Opps to the Labor Pool through a revolution.. First publication of an early novel by the author of the Dune series.

PB - WordFire Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Plague Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian set in a near future Ireland using Irish myth to explore the conflicts.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project 40" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where humans are bred to be hive creatures. They have been in existence for some 300 years and currently comprise 54,000 members living in an extensive underground hive in Oregon. The hive is developing a new weapon that could destroy the Earth and uses it to blackmail the U.S. government to leave it alone. The hive's plan is to continue to grow until it completely overwhelms the rest of the world.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 33.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.

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Repub. as Hellstrom's Hive. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1974; and New York: Tor, 2007. U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Santaroga Barrier Y1 - 1968 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. An additive to food gives people an expanded awareness that allows them to create an inward looking, small town eutopia, but they are ready to kill to keep the community as it is.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1970. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. A shorter version was published in Amazing Stories 41.4 - 6 (October 1967 - February 1968): 6-51, 119-33, 147-54, 156, 158, 160; 129-40, 144; 67-123.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mary Celeste Move” Y1 - 1964 A1 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia where North and South America are dominated by cars.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 74.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 145-52; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 157-64; and in The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (New York: Tor, 2014), 392-97.

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Illus. John Schoenherr

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