The Coming of the Great Apes

A science-fiction novella about the secret development of new biological supercomputers.
«September 28. My premonition did not deceive me: the old man really had been hiding something from us. Today the chief took me downstairs, and there for the first time I saw the neopithecines, as he calls them. They are enormous apes, the size of gorillas, with large round heads. They sit alone and in groups in rooms with thick bars instead of doors. Mollini led me up to one set of bars, and I saw a shaggy creature sitting at a table and… writing something.»