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In the great tradition of the five APE movies ("Remarkable, original, forceful, memorable and unique!" said Newsday), the brand new CBS-TV APE programs offer the best in science fiction adventure.

Here is the first book based on the fascinating TV series...a mind-reeling journey to Earth in the year 3085, when Apes are masters and Men are slaves — a waking nightmare from which there is no escape!

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"Savages, they're nothing but savages!"
"They must be caught and punished!"
"They must be taught their place!"
"They must be obliterated like the plague!"

So began the reign of terror. Humans, already enslaved, were now to be exterminated. The Dragoons, a band of vicious apes, swore to drive the humans from their land, burn their huts, murder their children, and imprison the last sorry survivors in the Forbidden Zone.

Only Galen, Virdon and Burke stood between the doomed humans and their terrible fate. Only they could expose the Dragoons and their dangerous secret. Only they could keep the apes from destroying an entire race and every remnant of their dead civilisation.

But in this desert or brutality, small flames of reason and kindness still flickered. An ape doctor and a frightened blind female become the unwitting aides of human salvation...

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THE DEADLIEST CHOICE OF ALL —

A SINGLE HUMAN LIFE...
OR THE SECRETS OF THE AGES

The ancient projector cranks into motion. The old reel begins to unwind. Civilisation, human civilisation 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Then the rusty, outdated machine grinds to a halt.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!

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Take two astronauts time-warped 1000 years into the future to find human civilization destroyed and the Apes in control — and you have a terrifying vision of what the world may someday be like:

The Orangutans rule.
The clever Chimpanzees are the administrators and bureaucrats
The powerful and brutal Gorillas staff the military and police
And Humans are enslaved

Only the astronauts Burke and Virdon, and their companion Galen are free in this savage world. But theirs is the freedom of perpetual fugitives...