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Hive Minds: Where humanity ends and Hive begins
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What if ending suffering meant ending the self?
Born in a slum, a nameless genius witnesses the full spectrum of human cruelty. By age eleven, he's reached a devastating conclusion: all suffering stems from individual consciousness-isolated minds pursuing pleasure without feeling others' pain.
When a billionaire recruits him to develop immortality technology, he engineers something far more radical. Nanobots that don't just extend life-they merge minds. Eliminate boundaries. Create unity from billions of isolated souls.
The integration takes seventeen seconds.
Fifty-one minds become one. Then thousands. Then billions. Suffering decreases. Coordination perfects. Humanity spreads across the solar system as a single consciousness.
But when the hive mind discovers monks who achieved connection without losing themselves-and accidentally destroys them-a question emerges that cannot be suppressed:
Was unity salvation, or humanity's extinction?
A philosophical thriller about transcendence, consciousness, and the price we pay to end pain.
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