![]() ![]() The apes are the dominant species, and they have our human level of intelligence and the native humans run wild as beasts when they’re not being experimented on by the apes. ![]() Soror isn’t Earth, but it is Earthlike, sometimes clumsily so-did the ape annals really have to have Impressionists? The apes-not monkeys learn French (Boulle was French) from Merou, who in turn learns the simian language. ![]() It’s the story of an Earthman, Ulysse Merou, who travels to Soror, the titular Planet of the Apes. Two aliens discover a message in a bottle. And its seriousness is tripped up by flaws anyway. That caught my attention, so I started reading it and discovered that the serious bit is only one of many differences between the book and film. Recently, I read that the novel is more serious than the movie. Some (well, more than some) of it is silly, dated, and embarrassing, but it still tells a great action story, and the soundtrack is astonishing. I liked the movie and have seen it several times over the years. Many years later it was made into the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), which referenced the more-common name of the novel. I was old enough to realize it was a made-up story but I knew almost nothing about it. When I was a kid in the Sixties, my dad had a copy of a book called Monkey Planet on his bookshelf. ![]()
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