The Green Brain

The Green Brain
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author	Frank Herbert
Cover artist	Gerald McConnell^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	160 pp

The Green Brain (1966), initially published as Greenslaves, is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert.

Plot introduction

The book is set in the not-so-distant future, where humankind has all but succeeded in controlling all life on the planet and almost completely wiping out all insect life. The earth is divided into a "Green Zone" which humans totally dominate (or so they believe) and a diminishing "Red Zone" that is not yet conquered.

The "Green Brain" of the title is an intelligent organism that embodies and arises from nature's resistance to human domination. It is able to command social insects to form humanoid-shaped collective organisms which it uses to infiltrate the "Green Zone".

The book is about a small team sent into the jungles of Brazil to investigate the problem, who find out that some of their assumptions were wrong.

References

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Frank Herbert

Dune	Dune (1965) Dune Messiah (1969) Children of Dune (1976) God Emperor of Dune (1981) Heretics of Dune (1984) Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

ConSentiency	"A Matter of Traces" (1958) "The Tactful Saboteur" (1964) Whipping Star (1970) The Dosadi Experiment (1977)

Destination: Void	Destination: Void (1966) The Jesus Incident (1979) The Lazarus Effect (1983) The Ascension Factor (1988)

Standalone novels	The Dragon in the Sea (1956) The Green Brain (1966) The Eyes of Heisenberg (1966) The Heaven Makers (1968) The Santaroga Barrier (1968) Soul Catcher (1972) The Godmakers (1972) Hellstrom's Hive (1973) Direct Descent (1980) The White Plague (1982) Man of Two Worlds (1986) High-Opp (2012) Angels' Fall (2013) A Game of Authors (2013) A Thorn in the Bush (2014)

Short story collections	The Worlds of Frank Herbert (1970) The Book of Frank Herbert (1973) The Best of Frank Herbert (1975) The Priests of Psi (1980) Eye (1985) The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (2014)

Frank Herbert bibliography

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