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Greetings All, my attention was drawn to this site by someone who reviewed one of my stories over on Literotica back in 2018. I scanned through the list of authors and picked one at random that was close to the bottom—one who had written several stories. Luckily I chose Zorkmeister and this is how I discovered the Hive genre!
What do I like in a story? Well firstly it is the control aspect, but it has to be control for a reason. Next comes modification of the the character’s personality, their body, their or their sexuality. The story needs to have a good context and anything Scientific or Medical has to be either accurate or at the very least, feasible within the framework of the reality it is set in. I’m a Biologist and have always been fascinated by eusocial (hive) species and find the idea of applying this social structure to H. Sapiens to be intriguing. There is already at least one species of hive mammal, so why not us?
This was actually the first story on EMCSA that I ever read and got me hooked on the site and as well as introducing me to Hive-type stories. It follows the acquisition and induction of Chloe into what is in effect, a Hive: although it is not referred to as such.
With the current worries regarding the possible threats that AI proliferation presents, this story really brings things home and actually predicted one thing that has emerged several years after the story was written and that is the lengths a General Artificial Intelligence will go too to prevent itself from being switched off. BedHead certainly got that right! This story has plenty of mind control and body and brain modification and is certainly more frightening now than it was when first posted.
Dying of the Light by Valasania the Pale
This is a Hive story told from the opposite side: a woman abducted by drones and fighting back successfully. Well written and well thought out it actually casts the Hive I the role of the villain! Something that I previously thought would not work... But work it did and it worked very well. My attitude towards Heidi Moore, the victim began as “How dare she resist those poor drones?” But altered as the story progressed until it was Heidi that I was feeling sorry for. “That’s it, girl, fight back and you’ll beat them!”
Essence of Velissara by Tina Vamp
This story tackles the Hive trope in reverse... A drone has been arrested and is being interviewed by a Police Officer. As the interview progresses it emerges that there is far more to the drone’s presence in police custody than there seemed when the interview began, This is actually the first of a trilogy by Tina Vamp that develop the initial story in ways that I never considered when I began reading.
Education In The Basement by BedHead
This story covers another of the categories that appeal to me, namely lactation. The story tackles betrayal and brainwashing in detail. It was the first story that I read that was by this author and it made such a mark on me that I have been following his stories ever since.
Probability Zero by fembotheather
This Hive story struck a lot of cords for me: I’m a veteran myself and there was a lot about this story that rang true: the small squad given an impossible mission and briefed by senior officers whose confidence didn’t make up for their lack of accurate information. Next there was the realisation that the kit they had been given was useless. But the high point was the camaraderie of a small team who have trained together; I recognised people who I had known in that squad. The high point was that when things did go wrong they had no alternative but to carry on with everything falling to pieces around them.
Unfortunately Tabico ceased to post stories on this site years before I discovered it, however her stories are still referred too on the forum which shows that she is still missed. Sub Routine is a quirky reverse-computer virus story that looks at computer viruses affecting the human brain... If this doesn’t give you nightmares, then it should.
This one made a double impression on me, firstly it is one of the best Hive stories that I have ever read and secondly it is set on Mars, a planet that has fascinated me for most of my seventy-eight years. The story begins with Lilith Yew, the colony leader, struggling to counter the affects of a Hive abducting women from her colony and ends with her becoming the thing that she was struggling against. In fact the story made such an impact that I ed Valasania and obtained her permission to write a sequel—Yew and Me. So far this is only one of two stories that have had this affect on me.