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Here are a bunch of pages on our website that are tagged communalness science fiction
Communalness is a specialized term and subgenre, involving a human future with relationships and communities 'boosted' into enhanced consciousness by cybernetic or other means. The namesake town in Frank Herbert's novel The Santaroga Barrier has achieved a kind of drug-induced unity. The disciples of V. M. Smith in Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land achieve this (along with impressive powers) through learning to speak Martian.
