Thus, when Jinn wanted to increasehis speed, he gave it the biggest diameter possible. Furthermore, this elastic envelope could be stretched or contracted as the navigator pleased. His sail was lined inside with a series of black blinds that he could roll up or unroll at will, thus changing the effect of the light-pressure by modifying the reflecting power of certain sections. Jinn had therefore conceived an extremely ingenious method of steering. Such a machine, left to its own devices in the vicinity of a star (though far enough away for the field of gravity not to be too powerful), will always move in a straight line in the opposite direction to the star but since Jinn and Phyllis' stellar system contained three suns that were relatively close to one another, their vessel received rays of light along three different axes. Their ship was a sort of sphere with an envelope-thesail-which was miraculously fine and light and moved through space propelled by the pressure of light-radiation. They wandered over theuniversefor their pleasure-by sail. But Jinn and Phyllis, a wealthy leisured couple, were distinguished in their cosmos for their originality and a few grainsof poetry. Rockets took tourists to the wondrous sites of Sirius, or financiers to the famous stock exchanges of Arcturus and Aldebaran. In those days interplanetary voyages were an everyday occurrence, and interstellar travel not uncommon. signet, signet classics, mentor, plume and meridian books are published by The New American Library, Inc., 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019 first printing, november,1964 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHAPTERONE Jinn and Phyllis were spending a wonderful holiday, inspace, as far away as possible from the inhabited stars. AND FOREIGN OOUNTKIHSBHGISTEBBD TBADBMARK-MAECA BBOI3IHADAEECHO BN CHICAGO, U.S.A.

Pierre Boulle PLANETOF THE APES Translated by Xan Fielding SIGNET Science Fiction Books You Will Enjoy A SIGNET BOOK PLANET OF THE APES part one This is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition published by Vanguard Press, Inc.

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