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In science fiction, a common theme is that of the assimilating race: a fictional species or race which maintains its numbers at least in part by the assimilation and indoctrination of the members of other groups. ==In print== * The Amnion in Stephen Donaldson's ''Gap Cycle''. * The Souls in Stephenie Meyer's "The Host" are alien parasites that assimilate other races by being placed onto a host's spinal column and erasing the old personality. They are utterly peaceful and never lie, fight, argue, and completely trust one another. * The ''Blight'' is a viral, parasitic superhuman intelligence in Vernor Vinge's novel ''A Fire Upon the Deep''. * The ''slugs'' in Robert Heinlein's novel ''The Puppet Masters'' * The ''Comprise'', a software-mediated human hive-mind that has taken over Earth and is in a state of cold war with the rest of the human race, in Michael Swanwick's ''Vacuum Flowers''. * The Conjoiners, a race of cybernetic humans who share thoughts electronically and are dedicated to improving themselves through increasingly advanced technology. From Alastair Reynolds's ''Revelation Space'' series of novels. * The Culture series by Iain Banks mention assimilating life forms ("Aggressive Hegemonizing Swarms"), also those that are gladly assimilated. The Culture itself assimilates other cultures, but not by force. * ''Drummers'', a tribe of humans who share nanobots by exchanging bodily fluids, in Neal Stephenson's novel ''The Diamond Age''. * When characters in ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'', visit Minusland, Willy Wonka warns them all about Gnoolies, invisible creatures that are harmless to humans unless they bite, in which case the bitten victim goes through a slow, painful process of becoming more Gnoolies. * Jarts, an alien race devoted to archiving all life and information in Greg Bear's novels set in ''The Way'' multiverse. * Killiks, a fictional race from the Star Wars universe * In Ray Bradbury's short story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed", humans who settle on Mars gradually become Martians, even speaking their language. * Oankali in Octavia Butler's ''Xenogenesis'' trilogy, who can seduce unwilling humans to create human-Oankali "construct" hybrids. * The Phalanx from Marvel Comics perpetuate their race through the assimilation of other species. * Yeerks and The One in ''Animorphs''. * Gaia (Foundation universe) in the latter ''Foundation'' novels of Isaac Asimov, an entity which unified all atoms of matter into a collective consciousness for the benefit of all. * Starro the Conqueror in the DC Comics universe. Can release spores to take mental control of populations and heroes. * The Electric Church, a pseudo-religious organization made up of robotic "monks" with human brains in ''The Electric Church'' by Jeff Somers. * The fungus-like lifeform that Richie Grenadine has been transformed into after drinking a contaminated beer in Stephen King's short story "Gray Matter" * The unnamed alien race whose artifacts are discovered by the people of fictional Haven, Maine, in King's ''The Tommyknockers''. None of them are alive, but use of the alien technology gradually turns the users into beings more and more like its creators. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of fictional assimilating races」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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