The book of the famous French writer Pierre Boulle “Planet of the Apes” takes place in the year 2500. Journalist Ulysses Meru gets to a planet where the carriers of the mind are monkeys People who have lost the ability to think and speak are exhibited in zoos and used for biological experiments. Ulysses manages to get in contact with two chimpanzee scientists, who arrange for him to speak at a scientific congress and report that he is an alien from the planet Earth. Planet of the Apes has been translated into dozens of languages. It was filmed twice (in 1968 and in 2001). ). Based on her motives, several television series were filmed; on them, in turn, four more books were written... This novel is rightfully considered a cult and is part of the gold fund of world fiction.