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Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2024
Read this book when I was very young. Decided to order and read again. Arrived earlier then expected. Good condition for as old as it is :-) thank you!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019
Nice book good Description super seller fast shipping buy with confidence ♦️♦️♦️♦️
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2012
I have been looking forward to completing my collection of my Planet of the Apes. The cover was in near mint condition and the pages were perfect. This is a great book for any fan of the Planet of the Apes.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2011
With the exception of the original novel, "Planet of the Apes" by Pierre Boule, this is, by-far, the best of the movie adaptation novels (including the 2001 movie).
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Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2016
This is Dr. Zira, her loving husband, Cornelius, and this their little baby, Milo. The most dangerous threat to the human race...is little baby Milo. Why? How did they get here? How were they received by human society? The year is 1973-and the two Chimpanzees, along with Dr. Milo, a third Chimp companion, traveled back through a time warp from Earth's dominated future where apes ruled, and humans were the lowest order of species. to the modern era 2000 years before its destruction. That's the focus of Jerry Pournelle's brilliantly-written tie-in novelization of 'Escape from The Planet of The Apes'. This story, which is the third entry of the 'Apes' feature film series, is a major shift in the series. Now, the apes are the heroes, and the humans are the antagonists. Zira and Cornelius have become the strangers in a strange land now, which was an inverse of Colonel Taylor's situation in the first 'Apes' film. The novel is definitely an excellent adaptation of the film!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016
After "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" ended with the destruction of Earth, "Escape From the Planet of the Apes" took the only option open to it: time travel. The story finds Cornelius and Zira traveling back to 1973 on Taylor's spacecraft and navigating then-modern-day-America. The goofiness of the previous entry is gone as the characters, both Ape and Human, must navigate the philosophical ramifications of a paradox, where Cornelius and Zira could cause the very future they left. This feels like classic science fiction at its best, with all characters trying to do what they think is right, either for themselves or for the world, all while wrestling with larger philosophical issues. Jerry Pournelle's writing is up to the task and serves as a worthy successor to Pierre Boulle's work on the book that originated the franchise.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2022
Author Jerry Pournelle does an excellent job in adapting Paul Dehn’s script for “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” into an exciting and enthralling novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Trip down Memory lane
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2017
Seller sent fast and it was as said. In good order for an old book. I Ordered as a nostalgia read. I remember seeing the movie and the book hasn't disappointed . . I've enjoyed reading this to the max and have now ordered others from the series
5.0 out of 5 stars film tie in
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2014
All the pota film books were released in
The 1970s, and don't diverge from the films
This is one of the sadder of the novels due to the deaths of
The main players,quite a paradox though Cornelius and ziras offspring
Changes the world for ever ,only for them both to return thousands of
Years later and start it all over a gain. Thought provoking