The Green Brain

The best part of this book is the description of the communal insects and how they secretly infiltrate human society. The story has some interesting concepts, but overall it wasn't very compelling.

I am glad to discover that this obscure 60s SF novel is not entirely forgotten.......more

Merely ok. Written in the mid-sixties, it's full of the sort of casual sexism that give me hives. But the idea was interesting enough and the writing kept me engaged, even if the character were flat and the editing a bit slap-dash.......more

I should probably start of by saying this is the first book by Frank Herbert I have read (but definitely not the last). I have not, like most of the reviewers, read Dune yet. This is probably for the best, seeing as the masterpiece which is Dune may have disappointed this book for me. I did really en......more

There’s some pretty solid stuff here, some sci-fi goodness that’s almost Asimovian in the way that it throws ethical quandaries at you and almost Kingian in the way that it freaks you out. I should tell you right now that if you’re disturbed by the idea of a human being made entirely from insects th......more

Like most people, I read Dune first, fell in love, then sought out his earlier books. And, like most people, was disappointed that they all weren't Dunes. What I came to realize was that most of Herbert's earliest works were stories appearing in science fiction magazines like Amazing Stories & Astou......more