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mogano
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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 7:19 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi!Can you recommend me a GOOD SF book about collective consciousness ?
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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 12:58 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.

Janrae Frank
I have no skeletons in my closet, they are all hanging from the yardarm.

Once there were three brothers, Brandrahoon the vampire, Isranon called the Dawnhand, speaker to spirits, and Waejonan the Accursed, first of sa’necari. Isranon defied his brothers and was destroyed, his descendants forced into the darkness.

The Shadowed Princes
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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 1:00 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Tough one. The best I can think of off the top of my head is "More than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon. It's an older book, which might mean that the "science" isn't up to date, but it's a classic, well written novel.

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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 1:19 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
"Hellstrom's Hive" by Frank Herbert was nice and disturbing.

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"An Awakening of Shadows" in The Infinity Swords anthology from Carnivah House
"All That Glitters" at Every Day Fiction

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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 3:13 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks;)
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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 3:14 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You have saved my life:)
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mogano
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  		   Posted 4/8/2008 3:53 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm waiting for other recommendations;)
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  		   Posted 4/9/2008 7:52 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Peter F Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy is a sprawling space opera with one faction, called Edenists, who are humans that have evolved a collective consciousness and resolve everything by mental consensus.

Plus it's just a kick-ass set of books. Really long, though.

Check out my story "Cold Snap" in Lords of Justice from Carnifex Press. It's an anthology of kick-ass super hero novellas.
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  		   Posted 4/9/2008 10:02 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is the subtle version of collective consciousness, perhaps closer to a shared philosophy.


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  		   Posted 4/9/2008 10:11 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Asimov's later Foundation stories got a little wacky - and the three done by the Killer Bs were...odd. Gaia consciousness and all that. If you're into it, well, it's probably good. I just thought it was silly.

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  		   Posted 4/10/2008 2:16 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both feature alien races that have a hive-type collective consciousness. Are you specifically looking for human collective consciousness? 
 
 

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  		   Posted 4/14/2008 10:36 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I am interested not only in human collective consciousness. Thank you very much:)
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