"Planet of the Apes history could very well be neither a circular loop nor an "A or B" set of divergent highway lanes, but rather a Mobius strip embedded in an Escher landscape twisted up in a pretzel and tied up in a sailor's knot, continuously looping back upon itself and enabling all of the various contradictory incarnations to occur on the same continuous, ever-changing loop."
-Rich Handley, Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Unauthorized Chronology (Hasslein Books; 2008), page xiv: "Changing Lanes and Curving Time."
Review coming soon...
This book looks great. I love this franchise and any excuse to devote a good volume of exploration to it works for me.
ReplyDeleteI agree, John.
ReplyDeleteThe "time loop" of the five Apes films (and the TV series, the cartoon, the comics and the remake...) is a source of endless fascination for me.
I'll be reviewing the book as soon as I finish reading; but so far I have to say -- it's amazing!
JKM