9780552084789 - logan's run von nolan, william f.; johnson, george clayton (3 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Corgi Books, 1970
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers Ltd., London, 1976
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Some creases and scuffing on the cover, internally good and firmly bound. Film tie-in edition.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Corgi Books, 1970
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson?s Logan?s Run offers a future society with a beautifully simple answer to the problem of ageing: don?t. At twenty-one, everyone is expected to report for death with the sort of civic cooperation normally associated with renewing a library card, because nothing… says advanced civilisation like building a paradise and then setting a very strict expiry date on the inhabitants. Logan is a Sandman, which sounds dreamy until one learns that his job is to hunt down Runners: those awkward citizens who reach their final day and decide, rather rudely, that being terminated is not quite the social contract they had in mind. The world is young, glittering, controlled, pleasure-soaked and hollow, a place where youth is not merely admired but enforced, and where maturity has been removed from the population as if it were a design flaw. The plot does the sensible thing and turns the hunter into the hunted. Logan, once an agent of the system, begins to run himself, pursued through a future of domed cities, strange subcultures, ruined places, automated comforts and institutional menace. It is one of those excellent science-fiction arrangements in which the hero discovers his society is appalling at roughly the same moment the society discovers it would quite like him dead. There is a clean, nasty irony at the heart of it. This is a youth culture taken to its logical and idiotic extreme: no wrinkles, no old people, no patience, no memory, no accumulated wisdom, no one around to say ?we tried this before and it ended badly.? Everyone is young, beautiful and doomed, which sounds like advertising until you notice the body count. The future has solved boredom, sex, leisure and population control, but somehow misplaced the entire point of being alive. For readers of classic dystopian science fiction, over-polished futures, rebel chases, social satire and paperback-era ideas with sharp little teeth, Logan?s Run remains a splendidly brisk nightmare. It belongs to that period when SF could take one brutal premise, wire it into a chase plot, and produce a world that feels both absurd and uncomfortably familiar. Given how modern life treats youth as a moral achievement, the book has aged rather better than its citizens are allowed to. Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. A decent Corgi paperback from the days when dystopias were smaller, nastier and could fit in a coat pocket. No carousel, no crystal in the palm, no compulsory civic death ceremony included; just a solid copy of a future where turning twenty-one is less a birthday than a termination notice.
