The novel originally titled La Planete des singes, which was the basis for the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.
The novel is about three human explorers from Earth who visit a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse, where the great apes are the dominant intelligent and civilized species, while humans are reduced to a savage animal state.
The novel The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle is a classic anti-war work that explores the absurdities and tragedies of war. The action takes place during World War II in a Japanese POW camp in Thailand.
Zoran Živković, an excellent connoisseur of science fiction, made a selection of Clarke's best stories with the motif of first contact and wrote an extensive text in which he interprets them in detail.