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The term is also used in science fiction to describe a group of individual organisms that together share a single unified mind, distributing thought and communicating with each other through telepathic means. This is somewhat analogous to how colonies of social insects such as ants, bees and termites can seem to behave as if they were a single collective organism.

1 Hive minds in fiction

• The Buggers in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
• The Inhibitors in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap
• The Tines in Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with 'stingy') (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep and for his 1993 essay " Th's A Fire Upon the DeepA Fire Upon the Deep ( 1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge. It combines superhuman intelligences, well-developed and believable aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, Usenet, and more into an exceptional sp
• Bruce SterlingBruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. He writes Catscan for the SF Eye. In 2003 he was appointed Profess's short story "Swarm" in SchismatrixSchismatrix is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, originally published in 1985. The story was Sterling's only novel-length treatment of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Five short stories preceded the novel. Science fiction novels.
• The Many in System Shock 2
• The evolving children at the end of Childhood's EndChildhood's End is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. It was originally published in 1953, and a version with a new introduction was released in 2001. Childhood's End deals with the transformation of humanity into part of an interplanetary hive mind..
• The BorgThis article is about a fictional race of aliens. For other uses, see Borg (disambiguation). The Borg are a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe. Overview Borg are humanoids of different races that are enhanced with cybernetic implants, giv in Star TrekStar Trek collectively refers to six science fiction television series, ten motion pictures, and hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the early to mid 1960s.
• The Changelings in Star Trek (while connected in the Great Link)
• The cyborg army of CABAL in
• The Tyranid race in Warhammer 40,000
• The Zerg race in StarCraft
• The Kharaa (alien species) in Natural Selection