Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

Jinn and Phyllis were spending a wonderful holiday, in space, as far away as possible from the inhabited stars.

Apes and men are two separate branches that have evolved from a point in common but in different directions, the former gradually developing to the stage of rational thought, the others stagnating in their animal state. Many orangutans, however, still insist on denying this obvious fact.”