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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 AWARD BOOKS are published by Universal-Award House, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation, 235 East Forty-fifth Street, New York, N.Y. 10017 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Title Copyright Dedication About the Author ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen 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.
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