Api 2967 (English version) [1965]
(Playwrights Co-op, 1973; Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1974)
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Résumé At an undetermined point in time, the inhabitants of an unidentified planet live for science alone.
They are all known simply by their numbers. A professor undertakes research on an apple which
he names Api, and on a series of documents handed down from the ancient civilisation "Earth."
With the help of his female assistant, E3253, he attempts to decipher this lost civilisation. Extrait « PROFESSOR : We have dug up some manuscripts of extreme importance. These manuscripts were entitled "Pornographic". / E : Porno..graphic? / PROFESSOR : Yes. From these manuscripts we can see that the human grouping is clearly divided between two classes: men and women. These men and these women are continously joining by certain organs, always in different positions, and derive from this joining a...some...feelings. / E : This must have called for a large output of energy? / PROFESSOR : Right! » Revue de presse "`Buck Rogers in the 25th century' is about 500 years short of the mark for this provocative science-fiction charade which projects us 1000 years hence, into a time of new incarnation for the human race — perhaps a new Garden of Eden with its Adam and Eve reborn." Edmonton Journal, 1969. |