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HIVE MINDS

Where humanity ends and Hive begins

By: ro S Chang

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Hardcover | 29 April 2026

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140 Pages

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20.32 x 12.7 x 1.12

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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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