| Title | : | Escape to Tomorrow (Planet of the Apes, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | 0426156757 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780426156758 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1975 |
"They must be caught and punished!"
"They must be taught their place!"
"They must be obliterated like the plague!"
So began the reign of terror. Humans, already enslaved, were now to be exterminated. The Dragoons, a band of vicious apes, swore to drive the humans from their land, burn their huts, murder their children, and imprison the last sorry survivors in the Forbidden Zone.
Only Galen, Virdon and Burke stood between the doomed humans and their terrible fate. Only they could expose the Dragoons and their dangerous secret. Only they could keep the apes from destroying an entire race and every remnant of their dead civilization.
But in this desert of brutality, small flames of reason and kindness still flickered. An ape doctor and a frightened blind female become the unwitting aides of human salvation....
Contains the novellizations of the episodes "The Surgeon" based on the teleplay by Barry Oringer, and, "The Deception" based on the teleplay by Anthony Lawrence and Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
Escape to Tomorrow (Planet of the Apes, #2) Reviews
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Effinger wrote four books that were adaptations of the television series Planet of the Apes, which was based on the original 1968-1973 series of movies, which in turn had been based on the Pierre Boulle novel from 1963. The TV series only ran for fourteen episodes at the end of 1974 and was not particularly well received. Each of his books adapted two of the scripts of the show. He did a good job of adapting the stories, and managed to establish some continuity between them. He obviously didn't spend as much time and energy on them as he did on his original work, and he also was in very poor health while writing them. Nonetheless, he still produced entertaining prose, threw in occasional lines and bits that enhanced the televised versions, and managed to tell an interesting series of stories.
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A standardly written adaptation of two episodes of the TV series. "The Surgeon" is another of the same type of plot where the humans wind up, with their amazing astronaut training, teaching the apes, in this case a doctor, new things about their profession ie. how to blood type donors and to do transfusions. Nothing new or interesting and pretty much the same plot of the two stories in the first book. I felt "The Deception" was much better. Still a quick standard adaptation without much added character to the filmed episode, which I looked up and watched after finishing this book, but there was some. Mostly because the book allowed us to get inside the heads of Sestus and his daughter Fauna.
