Death of the Planet of the Apes

[megoapesnut]

I love the tv show much more than the films and i would love to read the continuing adventures of the TRIO.

There is a series of videos of Galen musing about his time with Burke and Verdon. They were shot as opening teasers for some "movies" that were made by stitching episodes of the TV show together. As a fan of the TV show, you might be interested in viewing those, if you haven't already.

[TrekStar]

^^ Available here, along with many wonderful things: https://pota.goatley.com/powerrecords.html

Thank you for that link, is there a link for the book & record Star Trek series?

[Confessional]

^^ Available here, along with many wonderful things: https://pota.goatley.com/powerrecords.html

[apes3978]

OK,a little confused is this book(s) set in the Heston Universe or the Galen/Verdon/Burke universe???? I love the tv show much more than the films and i would love to read the continuing adventures of the TRIO. Also are there more books with stories featuring Alan, Peter & Galen??

I believe the anthology book "Tales from the Forbidden Zone" has a story based in the TV series universe.

There's some good TV series fan-fiction out on the Internet if you do some searching.

Also, the UK television annuals have some original stories featuring the fugitives, there was a series of comics in the 70s from Argentina that featured the trio (but some of those stories are pretty far out), and for your listening pleasure, Power Records had four original APES stories put out on an LP in 1975-I would imagine these must be posted online somewhere by now-They're actually quite good and capture the spirit of the TV series. "Volcano" is my favorite of the four.

[Nostalgiabuff]

it's set in the Heston universe. Alan Verdon is in this book though. there were supposed to be more books in the series so not really sure where he was going with it. alternate timeline? i am not aware of any books continuing the TV series

[Jorge Galvan]

OK,a little confused is this book(s) set in the Heston Universe or the Galen/Verdon/Burke universe???? I love the tv show much more than the films and i would love to read the continuing adventures of the TRIO. Also are there more books with stories featuring Alan, Peter & Galen??

"Finally the truth is revealed. Beneath the irradiated wasteland, the astronaut faces the deadly wonders of a gleaming city and its inhuman citizenry. On the surface the gorillas--led by General Ursus--launch an all-out assault to exterminate the savage animals known as humans.

And out in the desert, the chimpanzee scientist Milo strives to reconstruct the spacecraft that brought the humans from the past. Events spiral at a breakneck pace, with the fate of a world at stake."



anyone read this? I just finished it. great read. really filled in a lot. written by the same guy that wrote Conspiracy on the Planet of the Apes. I love that he even brought in Alan Verdon. i hope he writes some more

[MegoMonk]

I read both Conspiracy and Death about two years ago. I liked how the author explained what really happened to Landon. Also, the books explained more about Milo, who he was and how he rebuilt the space ship. The first POTA movie I saw was Escape in the theatre when it came out in 1971. Milo gets killed so early in the movie, you never really knew anything about him.

[megoapesnut]

I stumbled on Death last year sometime and it was a great read.

[Confessional]

^^ Yes, the 2018 tome of original film knowledge!

[Nostalgiabuff]

As a kid, Beneath was so forbidding that I found it disturbing, but as a teenager and adult it became my fav in appreciation of its oddities and darkness… the Empire Strikes Back of the Apes.

I don't consume much of the new fiction either, but do have a few books in the to-read-pile with the artwork of Conspiracy having sucked me in. I suppose after recently reading Rinzler's impressive book, everything else is going to be somewhat disappointing for a while.

are you referring to the making of book he put out a couple years ago?

[Confessional]

As a kid, Beneath was so forbidding that I found it disturbing, but as a teenager and adult it became my fav in appreciation of its oddities and darkness… the Empire Strikes Back of the Apes.

I don't consume much of the new fiction either, but do have a few books in the to-read-pile with the artwork of Conspiracy having sucked me in. I suppose after recently reading Rinzler's impressive book, everything else is going to be somewhat disappointing for a while.

[PNGwynne]

Indeed. I enjoyed some of the Murray books a great deal.

[warlock664]

i guess I am in the minority. i also love Beneath. In fact it is my favorite of the Apes films, ever since i was a kid. a lot of the reviews on the book are that it is padded, and repetitive, and has plot holes. so what? So did the movies. I enjoy these things for what they are, not for what they are not

Actually, Beneath is my 2nd favorite Apes movie (the original Planet is clearly the best in the series IMO). And I really wanted to like Conspiracy . Had it captured the heart of the film series, I could’ve easily overlooked any glaring plot holes. I just don’t think it was very well written; as I said, it seemed like bad fan-fic.
Trust me, I’ve read and enjoyed plenty of things that the majority would consider dire: the original Doc Savage pulp stories (the Murray books are pretty bad though), Shadow pulps, The Spider. As you say, to each their own.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i guess I am in the minority. i also love Beneath. In fact it is my favorite of the Apes films, ever since i was a kid. a lot of the reviews on the book are that it is padded, and repetitive, and has plot holes. so what? So did the movies. I enjoy these things for what they are, not for what they are not

[palitoy]

I'm a bit of an outlier in Ape fandom but there seems to be some sort of controversy surrounding these publications? I'm a collector and fan but I don't delve into new fiction.