[net.sf-lovers] solar sailing

@RUTGERS.ARPA:feldman%bartok.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (03/21/85)

From: feldman%bartok.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Geoff Feldman HL02-3E09 225-6023)

Believe it or not, the original Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boule starts
with a solar sailing scene.   Seems that some monkeys are out for a vacation
in their solar sailer.   They find some space junk (a note in a bottle) and
it contains an improbable story about intelligent humans...   Incidently
this story is 10 times better than the stupid movies were.   Boule is not
an SF writer otherwise.   He wrote "Bridge over the river Kwai" as well
as planet of the apes.

					---Geoff