The book includes: a science fiction novel by the prominent American science fiction writer Frank Herbert, telling about an incredible and successful experiment on turning people into ants, as well as diverse science fiction stories by Howard Fast.* * *Near a provincial American town, a huge underground city was built, a real anthill where strange people live. Several hundred years ago, they took insect colonies as a model for society. The inhabitants of the hive are divided into asexual and brainless workers, female producers and “servants” who cover the Hive in the “wild” outside world.©The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.