The Green Brain

...Although not without its qualities, in my mind The Green Brain it the weakest of Herbert's novels I have read to date. He never manages to really lift it above a science fiction monster story. For an author who was reluctant to enter the field of science fiction, he made many attempts to break into the main stream fiction market in his career, it is a disappointingly work. In each and every one of his novels Herbert, he tries to raise the level of the genre with lots of attention to the psychology of the characters as well as a good idea to support the novel. In The Green Brain he does not achieve the desired result. The combination of ecology, social insects and science fiction has potential as Herbert would later show but in this book he did not find the right combination.

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