Planet of the Apes
by Pierre; Fielding, Xan (translator) Boulle · first published 2001
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…the big bang (some 13.7 billion light years) in one human lifetime. The space travellers could return to Earth billions of years in the future. A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Time_dilation_and...
on “US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth” ↗"A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle." — also The Forever War by Joe Haldeman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
on “US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth” ↗…travel through the entire known Universe in one human lifetime.[12] Space travelers could then return to Earth billions of years in the future. A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, and the Orion Project has been an attempt toward this idea." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Velocity_time_di...
on “Dissolving the Fermi Paradox” ↗In 1964 he predicted the concept of ape slave labor which was the basis of the plot of the novel "La planète des singes" (Planet of the Apes) by Pierre Boulle printed in 1963.
on “Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It” ↗I wonder if these paintings, specially the ones by Pieter van der Borcht, have in someway inspired Pierre Boulle to write Planet of the Apes.
on “Two Monkeys” ↗Really, they could have tossed Pierre "Planet of the Apes" Boulle in there, if they knew the name. Although my favorite Boulle story was "Les Jeux de l'esprit", where scientific rationality takes over the world, and, for entertainment, contests between physical…
on “The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit)” ↗