The Green Brain, Frank Herbert
The Green Brain, Frank Herbert
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The Green Brain

Author: Frank Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/31/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects that made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his coworkers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso. But somehow those areas that had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales were coming out of the jungles—tales of insects mutated to incredible sizes, of creatures who seemed to be men but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects...

Author Bio

Frank Herbert's speculative fictions have taken the grand themes and questions of politics, ecology, overpopulation, and much more and applied them to the human drama. His most popular works are the well-known Dune books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and the extraordinary bestseller God Emperor of Dune. He wrote more than twenty other works of fiction and nonfiction, including a book on home computers, before his death in 1986.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Christine on 2007-07-20 04:00:16

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.