“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”
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Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was a French novelist born on February 20, 1912, and died on January 30, 1994. He is best known for his science fiction novels, with 'The Planet of the Apes' being one of his most famous works. Boulle's novels often explore social, political, and philosophical issues with profound insight. more
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