Monkey Station: The Macaque Cycle, Book One

The Macaque Cycle

by Ardath Mayhar

A plague is devasting mankind. Deep within the Amazon jungle, scientists have altered the genetic makeup of macaque monkeys, making them self-aware and giving them the power of speech. Only by working together can the two races--man and monkey--find some common road to a future earth.

Genres: Science Fiction

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.

She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre, and won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was honored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Author Emeritus.

Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns; with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer, Ardath P. Mayhar. Joe R. Lansdale wrote simply: "Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!"

Reviews

[Horror Guy]

Has a dynamite premise (intelligent apes in a research base getting smarter during a Stand-style plague), but never follows through.
If you want something similar, just watch the new Planet Of The Apes films or read the novels.

[Georg Gänzle]

Das Buch weiß nicht so recht was es sein will. Die eine Intelligenz entwickelnden Affen sind gefühlt eher so dabei als die Hauptgeschichte. Das Äußere des Buches vermittelt da einen anderen Eindruck.
Das Ganze hängt irgendwie mit dem Ausbruch einer globalen Seuche zusammen. Andere Menschen außerhalb der Monkey Station degenerieren, viele sterben. So genau erfährt man das aber auch nicht. Und dann ist da die Monkey Station, deren Personal zum Ende hin dann auch noch ums Überleben kämpfen darf.

Vieles wird angerissen, aber keine Storyline hat Tiefe. Meines Erachtens wurde da zuviel reingepackt so dass für die einzelnen Elemente kein Platz mehr bleibt.