Escape from the Planet of the Apes

141 Pages·1974·0.82 MB·English

by  Pournelle Jerry R

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 . . .
20th Century-Fox Presents
An Arthur P. Jacobs Production
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET
OF THE APES
Starring
RODDY McDOWALL • KIM HUNTER
BRADFORD DILLMAN • NATALIE TRUNDY
ERIC BRAEDEN • WILLIAM WINDOM • SAL MINEO
and
RICARDO MONTALBAN
as Armando
Produced by
APJAC PRODUCTIONS
Directed by
DON TAYLOR
Written by
PAUL DEHN
Based on Characters from
PLANET OF THE APES
Music by
JERRY GOLDSMITH

ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
FIRST AWARD PRINTING January 1974
Copyright © 1971, 1973 by
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
All rights reserved
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CONTENTS
Title
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET
OF THE APES
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Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
TO: P. Schuyler Miller
and L. Sprague de Camp
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerry Pournelle is currently president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
He is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best new
science fiction writer since 1971. His novella, The Mercenary, has been
nominated for a 1973 Hugo Award.
Mr. Pournelle was intimately involved in the U.S. space program from 1956 to
1968. He is married, the father of four boys, and his wife teaches in a
correctional institution. Unlike many of his SF writer friends he prefers dogs to
cats, and has a Husky named Klondike. Mr. Pournelle is currently writing a
regular science fact column for Galaxy magazine.