PLANET OF THE APES   UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH - by Arthur Browne, Jr. #B-514   The astronauts are involved when a human makes a glider and his work is studied by a lady chimp scientist who doesn't mean well.   GALEN is picking berries when he first sees LEURIC’s handiwork, a glider in which he, a human, is actually flying. Galen is panicked, but calms when VIRDON and BURKE take it all matter-of-factly. Then two things happen: Leuric’s glider, far from perfect, nosedives and at the same time a pair of Gorilla GUARDS appear in the distance. Galen and the Astronauts hurry to rescue Leuric from the shrubbery he’s dived into, and with him run to the shelter of his barn where models of his work are on display. Leuric is a man who simply has a passion to fly — he doesn’t care what the risks. This the Astronauts can understand, but what they can’t make him understand is that his design is faulty and that they know how a glider should be made. Certain they’re prejudiced against the man’s flying, he won’t listen, and they get to work on the more immediate problem — getting him, his equipment and tools out of the area where his glider has been seen. Indeed, it is now in the hands of the Council, where URKO, ZAIUS, and a lady Chimp scientist, CARSIA, are discussing the problem. She is curious about the possibilities of flight and jockeys Urko, who prefers executing anyone he doesn’t agree with, into agreeing to let her make a study of the glider and its creator if he can be found…He is found just after the Astronauts have hidden his gear in a ruined temple. Imprisoned in a garrison under the command of KONAG, a typical Gorilla administrator, Leuric becomes the object of a study by Carsia, who moves into the garrison, blithely overriding any objections — and bringing with her a mysterious box containing a fragmentation bomb. She interviews Leuric. She’s a scientist, she says, interested in learning the secret of flying. To this end she has brought him a collection of tools and directs him to make another glider. Galen, meanwhile, representing himself as an archeologist, talks his way into prison, which is some way out of the city, and manages to interview Carsia on the subject of the flying human. He’d love to see one fly. Her answer is so sympathetic that he takes word back to the Astronauts that she will be helpful. They don’t think so; Their problem is to see that Leuric produces for her an actually flying glider, which they know he cannot do. While Leuric works under Carsia’s eye, Virdon and Burke make…a workable glider, then figure how to get it to him. The next problem is — who’s to fly it? A human in a flying craft would be shot down. It’ll have to be Galen. He protests strongly, but they make him fly it anyway and soon he has the hang of it and loves it. The next problem is how to swap the craft for the clumsy one Leuric has engineered under Carsia’a eyes. Galen visits the garrison workshop with a lens Burke has ground from a piece of glass, manages to focus the sun’s rays on Leuric’s glider and sets it afire. Carsia, under a little pressure from above herself, nevertheless promises Leuric time to build another, and is agreeable when Galen’s “servants”, Virdon and Burke, come in to help, actually to bring in their own glider in pieces to be assembled. In this way they learn Carsia’s real motive when they see the fragmentation bomb — she means to have it dropped from the glider on the Council and its troops, after which she’ll be in charge. The astronauts thereupon try to destroy the glider but are fought by Leuric who wants only to fly, until he and Virdon are captured while Burke and Galen get away. With the flight arranged for morning, Burke taps a Morse code message outside the prison window. The result is that when Leuric and Virdon are then sent up in the glider, they know exactly what to do — they dive into the ocean behind some rocks and are picked up there by Virdon and Galen and escape while the glider Carsia wants sinks in the sea.   #   Galen Virdon Burke Urko Zaius Leuric   Konag Carsia Gorilla Guard 2nd Trooper Council Orang Human Driver Roddy McDowall Ron Harper James Naughton Mark Lenard Booth Colman Frank Aletter   Martin Brooks Joanna Barnes Ron Stein Eldon Burke William Beckley Glenn Wilder