Logan’s Run (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: After 2072
- Setting: Various locations on Earth and an escape ship
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Escapes, Future, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Twenty-first century, Death or dying, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Earth
- Locales: Space
The Plot
Logan’s Run is set in Greater Los Angeles, where life is publicly erotic and secretly violent. All the world’s inhabitants are supposed to follow the color code of a personal handprint flower designating their age. It is first yellow, then blue, then red (from the ages of fourteen to twenty-one), and finally black, which designates Lastday. At that time, the citizen must voluntarily enter a Sleepshop to die. Those who rebel and run for the fabled Sanctuary are regarded with hatred by the populace and are pursued by Sandmen with weapons. Each Sandman has a...
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