Hellstrom's Hive

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses--it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even<br/>their paranoid government minds could devise. First published in<br/>Galaxy magazine in 1973 as "Project 40," Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"A speculative intellect with few rivals in modern SF."-- "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"<br/><br/><br/>"Brick never ceases to up the ante and terrify his audience. The characters are rich and wonderfully realized...Brick's understated reading makes this a fantastic experience."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"<br/><br/><br/>"Scott Brick creates an atmosphere of tension...His projection of both calm and anxiety...creates undercurrents throughout the story."-- "AudioFile"<br/><br/>[Narrator Scott] Brick never ceases to up the ante and terrify his audience. The characters are rich and wonderfully realized.... Brick's understated reading makes this a fantastic experience.-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Audio Review"<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Frank Herbert (1920-1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of "Dune World" and "The Prophet of Dune" in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.<br/><br/><br/>Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by<br/>AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by<br/>Booklist magazine.