Logan's Run is an odd story, and always has been, but also an interesting and somewhat plausible one. My first experience with it had been the 1970's film, which took numerous liberties with the source material and which had more neon, glitter spandex and hedonistic sex than a key party in the back lot of a roller disco. I watched it back in the 5th grade - needless to say I had no idea what was going on in the story - but I had never really known that the book was a thing until recently.The boo...

Can I make a confession here? I've never seen the movie version of "Logan's Run."I know, I know. I should probably turn in my geek card at this point. Either that or I should dust off the DVD version I picked up for a low price and put the shiny disc into the player and cross it off my list of shame.For a long time, my excuse has been that I'd never read the book. And once I found out that the book came first, as a book-a-holic, I could at least say that I wanted to read the book first. So, fina...

Over the last several years I've watched a number of 70s science fiction movies: ( Logan's Run, Soylent Green, Westworld, etc.) and read the books when I could. I finally got a copy of Logan's Run and gave it a read. I liked this but I have to admit that I think the movie is more engaging. Perhaps that's simply because it was my introduction to the story. I'll just mention here what I most liked and didn't in the book. The characters beyond Logan and Jessica (and maybe Francis to an extent) were...

I always like the idea of reading old sci-fi more than the actual experience, and it certainly held true with this book as well. Logan's Run is, of course, iconic. Immortalized in a futuristic, and now cult-classic b-movie, it has cinematic influences on everything from Bladerunner to Minority Report. But there's really just not that much story here. Ultimately, that's what disappoints - that there could have been such an interesting story, but all we get is a chase through various decaying and

Definitely a good bad book, which anticipated cyberpunk the way Robert Sheckley anticipated Douglas Adams. In Logan's world, everyone has to submit to voluntary euthanasia when they turn 21 and their palmflower goes black. But Logan decides he'll try and find Ballard, who's 42 and has lived a double lifetime. Maybe he can help him escape to the mythical Sanctuary.It doesn't exactly make sense, but there are lots of very memorable sequences...______________________________________Just saw that Ni...

A bitter disappointment after waiting years to acquire this. Minus one star for ubiquitous, unnamed, and unnecessary opening female point of view (third present?) Minus another for head hopping without achieving anything the main character couldn't have conveyed. Minus a third star for being repeatedly tossed into the deep end of this world's vocabulary and left to float without a life preserver. Minus another star for trying to turn narrative into poetry ( I believe Stephen King labels this stu...

So I picked this up for 87 cents basically for two reasons:1. It's Logan's Run!!! What more need be said?2. Come on, 87 cents? Did I mention that it's Logan's Run?Ok, I hate reading the book after I've seen the movie (this pretty much goes with any book-to-eventual-movie combo), but really, I vaguely even recall the movie - I remember scant parts and I think most of the parts I remember aren't even in the book and I think the other parts I remember are those refreshed by stills wedged into the m...

Real Rating: 2.5* of fiveI remembered this book fondly. The summer the film came out, I drove my licenseless buds to the Village Multiplex in Pygge, my 1968 Bonneville. (We'd passed the book around our Scooby-group, drinking it in.) There Michael York cheekboned his way into my, um, heart shall we say, and the rest of the film...and the entirety of the book...faded into insignificance.Netflix loses the film on January 1st. I figured I'd rewatch it, while I give the book another go; after all, th...

Logan's Run is one of those movies I grew up with, so even if it is quite silly, it has a special place in my sci-fi heart.Turns out the book is even sillier! The movie is much tighter, and better plotted.The book does contain the most 1960s sci-fi line I've read in a long while:"The tri-dimensional newsman was dressed in Lifeleather trimfits."Of course he was.

Sometimes classic science-fiction isn't as good as one hopes. While a better written novel than the sequel it isn't as fun. As pointed out by Stacey it's really nothing more than a glorified chase through a exotic series of sets. The future world of "Logan's Run" isn't as developed as it should be while predictions of future events are wildly off the mark; weighing the story down and hurting it as a result. A product of it's time (late Sixties) it's also apparent that the authors (who were in th...

In the year 2011, it is impossible to discuss the Logan's Run novel without mentioning the 1976 movie, which I believe has surpassed the original work in terms of notoriety. Upon comparison, the reason for this is all too clear. While my modern tastes found the 70's movie to be rather charming, I cannot say the same for the novel.The first problem comes with the age limit. With no character over 21, descriptions of people as "man" and "woman" are confusing and try the limits of my suspension of

The novel Logan's Run was published 40 years ago & still holds up well as an entertaining piece of science fiction. I've always liked the 1976 film version starring Michael York & Jenny Agutter & was pleased to see that there were noticeable differences between the film & the novel. I wonder had the novel had been published today, in a world of The Hunger Games, Divergent etc, it might have been a huge hit & inspired a whole series of films & merchandise spin offs. While I would recommend the bo...

A literary masterpiece this is not, but it's been influential to some extent in the world of sci-fi, especially film, and is good fun. Fueled by mid-20th century fears of global overpopulation, Logan's dystopian society is based on the concept of putting people out to pasture when they reach the ripe old age of 21 (30 in the film). It's rife with implausibilities and hastily explained settings and scene changes, but the action, at least, doesn't let up.

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-Una idea interesante para su época, no tanto ahora, y una ejecución irregular, tanto entonces como ahora.-Género. Ciencia ficción.Lo que nos cuenta. El libro La fuga de Logan (publicación original: Logan’s Run, 1967) nos presenta al Vigilante Logan, un agente de Sueño Profundo dedicado a la caza de Fugitivos, personas que no siguen la ley y, al cumplir los veintiún años, tratan de evitar su final en las Casas del Sueño. Hay más Fugitivos cada vez y parecen estar organizados, buscando un lugar l...

I read this back in the 70s. The movie appeared (not a bad science fiction movie for the day) and I ran the book down. It was better than the movie by quite a bit.This is another cold war view of the future and a fairly dark outlook. While it's not the best or the worst one I read it's a fair read.

This is a book I have been searching for, but was having trouble finding at the used book shops. I have always wanted to read it and to my great surprise, recieved it from my parents on my 25th birthday. It is the 1976 version with the silly picture insert of movie images. To say I was thrilled is a drastic understatement. In fact, no words can come close to describing the nerd-uphoria I felt. It took me very little time to read the tiny book, but it was quite the adventure and I would love to s...

A rare case where the movie is better than the book, but still worth reading as a comparison between the two mediums. I think the book would have been more plausible if the max age had been the same as the movie (21 vs 30) Nonetheless, it's still a fun idea, and a sci fi classic.

I admit I'm a little torn on this one. Written in the late 1960s, this sci-fi thriller had an interesting message and seems to have influenced a fair bit of modern sci-fi, but it was done in a somewhat superficial manner. A synopsis: It's a couple hundred years after the 20th century and nobody is allowed to live past age 21. The entire world is connected by a giant subway system controlled by a powerful computer in the heart of a mountain in the middle of America. Everyone wears implanted "flow...

Like other novels I've read from the 70's, this crazy thing makes me suspect that the authors took some kind of hallucinogenic drug and then just wrote down what they saw and heard while they were tripping. Then they added a few passages and organized it all into a story of sorts, albeit a ridiculous story that makes very little sense.In a futuristic society circa the 2270's, life is all beautiful hedonism until you turn 21, when the glowing crystal embedded in your palm goes black, and you patr...