Planet of the Apes is only still strictly fiction. Whereas, in any sort of inter-species war, Man is pretty much so far the only type that can prosecute and organize such a war.
I mean, sure, a random lion can attack someone out in the jungle, but the whole race of lions are not therefore at war with Man as such. My take on this is that so far humans already are the only species capable of violence in an organized, systematic way. Then before I knew it I was 22 chapters in and writing a 112,500 word monster called "Warhorse" and it became apparent that I'd managed to jump on a wild horse's back and was now stuck there for better or worse. Then the sequel got a continuation.and several successor chapters. It wasn't until two years later that, on a slow day browsing Reddit at work, I dropped into r/HFY and discovered to my surprise that my forgotten short story was actually pretty popular. The story enjoyed some positive reception before (so I thought) sinking without trace in the manner of pretty much anything posted anonymously on 4chan. But in 2011 I wrote a one-shot HFY short story about a man named Kevin Jenkins and his alien friend Kirk, which I published anonymously on /tg I began writing as a hobby when I was a child, and I was one of those kids with a bedroom that was mostly bookshelf. I was born and raised in Carmarthenshire in Wales, UK and I graduated with a BEng in Computer Games Design from Staffordshire University in 2009 after which I spent several years working as a medical clerk and typist. The oldest and most powerful interstellar civilizations count us as the gravest threat they have ever faced, and so mankind barely have time to set foot on the galactic stage before we find ourselves embroiled in a deadly fight for survival.A fight in which all our natural advantages may not be enough. And that's to say nothing of the devastating bacterial and fungal plagues we carry naturally on our skin, nor our fierce intellect and contagious memes. To them, we are monsters: Impervious to their weapons, strong enough to tear them limb from limb and capable of near-impossible feats of endurance. Those species that have achieved interstellar travel on the other hand consider it impossible for sapient life to evolve on deathworlds, so when humanity shows up they are justifiably terrified of us. Humans just don't know any different because we've never lived anywhere else.
In The Deathworlders, Earth is one such planet. Virulent diseases, clawed predators, toxic plants or simply the harsh weather all pose an imminent risk of death. The term describes a planet so utterly dangerous that any intrepid explorer setting foot on its surface is in grave and immediate peril.
The concept of a "deathworld" has existed in scifi at least since the series of novels by Harry Harrison published in 1960. It envisions a world in which the human race is gifted in some way, and aims to leave the reader feeling positive or empowered about humanity as a whole.or to serve as a cautionary tale about power and responsibility. Whether we're the cowering masses in comic books who have to run for cover while supervillains are punched through our office blocks, or the galactic everyman against whom the aliens are more logical, stronger, more empathic or whatever, in most scifi and fantasy settings humanity generally comes off at best as the plucky underdog. The acronym stands for "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" and its specific focus is on subverting the usual role that the human race plays in speculative fiction.
HFY is a sub-genre of speculative fiction. It currently runs to nearly a million words and can be read in its entirety HERE.
The Deathworlders is a free online HFY science fiction serial published on a monthly schedule in chapters of at least thirty thousand words, and often twice that many or even more. He has a Patreon and is currently writing more material. They all take place in a shared universe originally created by u/hambone3110. There are hundreds of stories, mostly short novels. I have read about 3-4 books and they are REALLY GOOD. The Deathworlders is a Reddit based, completely free series of stories that have been written and curated by Redditors.