Pierre Boulle

A very near future science fiction story detailing the possible conclusions of the space race of the 1960s and plans to travel to the Moon and Mars.

Military operations in the primitive Asian jungle are complicated by the presence of an unknown source privy to every movement.

The anti-hero is John Butler, back from the war in the Far East branded a coward, a man for whom heroin had become a means of retreat from the horrors of battle. An addict now, he seeks help at a clinic and listens to the oft-repeated exhortation to find a consuming interest into which he can channel all his energies and aspirations. Butler concentrates on the one interest the war has left him - heroin. The combination of his past contacts as a chemistry...

"This classic action-adventure film that changed the face of sci-fi forever, an astronaut crash-lands on a strange planet ruled by intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport." --

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited by apes, it decides to hunt the couple down as...

In the near future, a plague has wiped out all of the cats and dogs. As a result, apes are kept as pets and slaves. One ape, Caesar, son of Cornelius and Zira, leads the revolution to take over the planet.

"Cornelius and Dr. Zira escape from their planet as it is being destroyed, and land on 20th century Earth." --