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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 13:33:26 -0500
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On 16/05/2024 09.35, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2024-05-14, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I remember the original Planet of the Apes movie quite well, despite
>>> having only seen it on teleevision. That movie was justly praised...
>>> and then its many sequels were justly execrated.
>>
>> You should read the book.  It's also good, but different.
> 
> I did read Boulle's novel and found it poor.

He did some nice short work. The collection _Time Out of Mind_ contains
some quirky stuff (along with a few things that aren't SF).

Scanning the contents, I'll call out:

"Time Out of Mind" features a transtemporal war, shown from the point of view
of a witness who was just trying to have a quiet glass of wine at a cafe.

"The Perfect Robot" points to something that may be necessary to get real AI.

"The Lunians" is an interesting take on first contact.

"Love and Gravity" is kind of silly; Niven would have written it if Boulle
hadn't gotten there first.

"E=mc^2" shows that equality is a symmetric relation.

It's been nine years since I last read it, so I can't say much about a lot
of the other stories. I do so miss the wire racks!

<https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?215993>

Another collection of his short work is _Garden on the Moon_, about which I
remember absolutely nothing.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 24:17