**Before you see the movie, read the original novel!** First published more than thirty-five years ago, Pierre Boulles chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history, from the classic 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, through four s
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
✍ Scribed by Jerry Pournelle
- Publisher
- Award Books
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
The time indicator raced back through the years—from 3955 to 1973. The spacecraft held the Earth's future inhabitants—three survivors of a devastating cataclysm.
The capsule's occupants included Cornelius, his mate Zira, and Dr. Milo—three Apes, the thinking, speaking descendants of the species that had dominated Man and the Earth for centuries.
The world of 1973 welcomed them at first, pampered them when it realized their unusual qualities, threatened them later when it was learned that Zira carried the seed of the future ascendance of Ape over Man.
They had to be killed! But first . . .
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