Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On 16/05/2024 09.35, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2024-05-14, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
 

I remember the original Planet of the Apes movie quite well, despite
having only seen it on teleevision. That movie was justly praised...
and then its many sequels were justly execrated.

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You should read the book.  It's also good, but different.

 I did read Boulle's novel and found it poor.

He did some nice short work. The collection _Time Out of Mind_ contains
some quirky stuff (along with a few things that aren't SF).
Scanning the contents, I'll call out:
"Time Out of Mind" features a transtemporal war, shown from the point of view
of a witness who was just trying to have a quiet glass of wine at a cafe.
"The Perfect Robot" points to something that may be necessary to get real AI.
"The Lunians" is an interesting take on first contact.
"Love and Gravity" is kind of silly; Niven would have written it if Boulle
hadn't gotten there first.
"E=mc^2" shows that equality is a symmetric relation.
It's been nine years since I last read it, so I can't say much about a lot
of the other stories. I do so miss the wire racks!
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Another collection of his short work is _Garden on the Moon_, about which I
remember absolutely nothing.
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Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 24:17