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Posted By : mogano - 4/8/2008 7:19 AM
Hi!Can you recommend me a GOOD SF book about collective consciousness ?

Posted By : cussedness - 4/8/2008 12:58 PM
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.

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Posted By : Gustavo - 4/8/2008 1:00 PM
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 By : DAWaverly - 4/8/2008 1:19 PM
"Hellstrom's Hive" by Frank Herbert was nice and disturbing.

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Posted By : mogano - 4/8/2008 3:13 PM
Thanks;)

Posted By : mogano - 4/8/2008 3:14 PM
You have saved my life:)

Posted By : mogano - 4/8/2008 3:53 PM
I'm waiting for other recommendations;)

Posted By : Hazimel - 4/9/2008 7:52 PM
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.

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Posted By : Rob Santa - 4/9/2008 10:02 PM
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is the subtle version of collective consciousness, perhaps closer to a shared philosophy.


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Posted By : Lyn - 4/9/2008 10:11 PM
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 By : Nicholas - 4/10/2008 2:16 AM
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? 
 
 


Posted By : mogano - 4/14/2008 10:36 AM
I am interested not only in human collective consciousness. Thank you very much:)
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