| Title | : | Journey Into Terror (Planet of the Apes: The TV Series, #3) |
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| ISBN | : | 0426160371 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780426160373 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 157 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1975 |
The ancient projector cranks into motion. The old reel begins to unwind. Civilization, human civilization lives. Its secrets unfold before astonished eyes.
Then the rusty, outdated machine grinds to a halt. The secrets will remain secrets forever.
Unless the machine can be made to work. Only two men have the key, only two men can empower the machine that will unlock the mysteries of the ages.
But a vicious band of bloodthirsty gorillas have seized one of them. The other's choice is simple: the machine or the man, the sum total of scientific knowledge or the life of a friend!
Contains the novellizations of the episodes "The Legacy" and "The Horse Race".
Journey Into Terror (Planet of the Apes: The TV Series, #3) 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.
