The Apes of Wrath

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In the Rue Morgue, the jungles of Tarzan, the fables of Aesop, and outer space, the apes in these seventeen fantastic tales boldly go where humans dare not. Including a foreword from Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this provocative anthology delves into our fascination with and fear of our simian cousins.
Evil Robot Monkey introduces a disgruntled chimp implanted with a chip that makes him cleverer than both his cohort and humans alike. In Murders in the Rue Morgue, a murder mystery unravels with the discovery of a hair that does not appear quite human. Merging steampunk with slapstick, The Ape-Box Affair has a not-so-ordinary orangutan landing on Earth in a spherical flying shipwhere he is promptly mistaken for an alien. King Kong sets a terrible example with booze and Barbie dolls in Godzillas 12-Step Program.
If youve ever wondered what makes humans different from apes, soon youll be asking yourself, is it even less than we think

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"Impressive... This is no gimmicky set of sideshows but a powerful exploration of the blurry line between animal and human." -- Publishers Weekly (January 21, 2013, STARRED REVIEW) "Aficionados of apes in literature and film should enjoy this gathering of new and old stories." -- Library Journal (March 2013) "An eclectic, enjoyable mix of fiction and nonfiction ... the 17 stories and four original essays all show a remarkable degree of quality from the authors and the editor himself, who in interviews professed an early love for all things simian." -- SF Signal "These are all fine additions to any fantasy lover's library... Climb up into your tree, peel a banana, and enjoy the treats herein." -- Sci Fi Magazine "An eclectic, enjoyable mix of fiction and nonfiction..." -- SF Signal "These are all fine additions to any fantasy lover's library... Climb up into your tree, peel a banana, and enjoy the treats herein." -- Sci Fi

Author Bio

Richard Klaw is the author of the acclaimed genre blog The Geek Curmudgeon and was the fiction editor at RevolutionSF. He is the co-editor of the ground-breaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business; the editor of The Big Bigfoot Book; and the co-founder of Mojo Press, one of the first publishers to produce both graphic novels and fiction. Klaws essays and observations are collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century. Over the past decade, he has written about fictional simians for a variety of publications, including Moving Pictures Magazine, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, King Kong Is Back!, and Kong Is King.