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PLANET OF APES, by Pierre Boulle. By keeping the pace fast and sideshows entertaining, Author Boulle gets a whole novel out of a one-line joke-what life would be like if monkeys, not men, won the anthropological race.
PLANET OF THE APES by Pierre Boulle. 246 pages. Vanguard. $4.50.
Writers used to have fun with the simple-minded idea that if 50 monkeys were locked in a room with 50 typewriters, they would eventually turn out War and Peace. But nothing stays simple. Bringing the conception up to date for the space age, French Novelist Pierre Boulle has concocted...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration...
In all this, is the author just monkeying around? Not entirely. The human beings of Betelgeuse's planet, it turns out, were once dominant and as highly developed as man on earth in the 20th century. The master race of apes did not evolve faster than men, but superseded...