Lin Mo, an overworked office drone, dies and opens his eyes to find himself a “deformed egg” in an Insectoid hatchery. Though male, he has been bound to the Matriarch’s exclusive reproductive powers, making his half-human, half-insect body a taboo to the entire Insectoid race.
In one hand, he holds the moral limits of a human soul. In the other, the Matriarch’s instinctive bloodlust and urge to reproduce.
When a guard insect’s claws pierce his cocoon, he instinctively hatches three worker bees and fights his way out. Yet the moment he kills, his human conscience churns his stomach. When the Matriarch Council’s assassination order spreads across the star systems, he uses a mental link to strengthen his swarm and fight even as the horror of insect traits spreading across his skin consumes him. When every interstellar race views the Insectoids as mortal enemies, he insists on using his identity as a male Matriarch to tear apart the rules:
“Who says a Matriarch has to be female? Who says the Insectoids can only survive by plundering?”
From fighting alone in an abandoned mine to forging a bizarre alliance between his swarm and human wanderers; from being driven to the brink by the Judging Matriarch to unleashing his latent potential and forcing his soldier insects to evolve; from fearing he would become a monster with no humanity to finally accepting his half-human, half-insect body…
He hatches worker bees to build a nest, breeds soldier insects to charge into battle, and tames commander insects as weapons, all while clinging to a trace of the warmth that belongs to “Lin Mo.” As the Star-Eater eggs threaten to devour the galaxy and every race believes the Insectoids are destined to destroy everything, he will prove at last:
The outsider is the key to breaking the cycle.
I can only say that the entry point of the subject matter is relatively new, and there is nothing else to say.