The Green Brain
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Remainder mark
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a near-future world where humanity has waged total war against insects — eradicating entire species in a desperate bid to reclaim the Earth for agriculture — Frank Herbert's The Green Brain presents a chilling vision of ecological hubris and its terrifying consequences. When a team of scientists ventures into the Brazilian jungle to investigate a zone where the extermination program has catastrophically failed, they discover that the surviving insects have not merely endured; they have evolved into something vast, collective, and eerily intelligent, with the power to mimic human form and infiltrate civilization itself. Herbert, celebrated as the architect of the landmark Dune sequence, brings the same sweeping ecological vision and philosophical urgency to this compact but devastating novel. The Green Brain argues that nature is not a passive victim of human ambition but an adaptive, retaliatory force of staggering complexity — a thesis that has only grown more resonant with time. The novel operates as both a pulse-quickening thriller and a sobering cautionary tale, urging the reader to consider what intelligence truly means, and whether mankind's greatest enemy might be its own certainty of dominance. The final revelation of the hive mind's true purpose will leave readers questioning who, in this war for the planet, is the real parasite.
Author: Frank Herbert
Format: Paperback
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Remainder mark
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a near-future world where humanity has waged total war against insects — eradicating entire species in a desperate bid to reclaim the Earth for agriculture — Frank Herbert's The Green Brain presents a chilling vision of ecological hubris and its terrifying consequences. When a team of scientists ventures into the Brazilian jungle to investigate a zone where the extermination program has catastrophically failed, they discover that the surviving insects have not merely endured; they have evolved into something vast, collective, and eerily intelligent, with the power to mimic human form and infiltrate civilization itself. Herbert, celebrated as the architect of the landmark Dune sequence, brings the same sweeping ecological vision and philosophical urgency to this compact but devastating novel. The Green Brain argues that nature is not a passive victim of human ambition but an adaptive, retaliatory force of staggering complexity — a thesis that has only grown more resonant with time. The novel operates as both a pulse-quickening thriller and a sobering cautionary tale, urging the reader to consider what intelligence truly means, and whether mankind's greatest enemy might be its own certainty of dominance. The final revelation of the hive mind's true purpose will leave readers questioning who, in this war for the planet, is the real parasite.