List of Fictional Assimilating Races - in Print

In Print

• The Amnion in Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle.
• 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.
• Jarts, an alien race devoted to archiving all life and information in Greg Bear's novels set in The Way multiverse.
• 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.