History Literature / LogansRun

William F. Nolan went on to write two sequel novels, titled ''Logan's World'' and ''Logan's Search''. The novel caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who eventually turned it into a movie that while successful for its time, had few things common with its source material.

Then there's ebook novella ''Logan's Return'' in 2001, more than 20 years after the last book.

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* TheOutsideWorld: [[spoiler:Having undergone a HeelFaceTurn, "sandman" Logan 3 escapes the rigidly controlled city with renegade Jessica 6 to explore the abandoned but habitable colony on Mars. This was later adapted into the film. ''Film/LogansRun'' by MGM studios in 1976, changing the outside world to the overgrown but habitable Washington, [=DC=]. A television series follows the further adventures of Logan and Jessica, plus the android Rem.]]

* BadassPacifist: Jessica, so very much. [[spoiler: Though she does knock Ballard unconscious when he tries to kill Logan]]

* DeweyDefeatsTruman: The most obvious being that the Little War took place around the year 2000. The construction speed of the Crazy Horse monument recounted in the novel is also extremely optimistic, as in the real year of 2014 the monument is decades of work behind the way it is described by the end of the book's Little War.

* SocietyMarchesOn: The book's plot was inspired in part by concern about overpopulation and draconian measures being used against it. Since the most dire forecasts failed to pan out, that concern waned since the book came out.

* RagingStiffie: One feral tribe of women gives Logan a dose of "Everlove" and gang-rape him.

* LovePotion: One feral tribe of women gives Logan a dose of "Everlove" and forces him to copulate with them repeatedly.
-->The first orgasm was good.\\
The second orgasm was all right.\\
The third orgasm was bad.\\
The fourth orgasm was painful.\\
The fifth orgasm was agony.\\
The sixth orgasm was damnation.

* ThePromisedLand: Sanctuary, in actuality [[spoiler:an old abandoned space station orbiting Mars]]

* BiTheWay: When Logan goes to the Glass House (think a spot where people meet for anonymous sex), he assesses his options in the waiting room - including some "pert Irish lads."

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler:By the time of ''Logan's World'', Ballard has been killed while taking out the master computer, which is a death sentence for the people on Sanctuary, as without the resistance, no more supplies can be flown in. On top of that, the destruction of the computer means an end of civilization on Earth. On top of THAT, Logan and Jessica's son Jaq is killed when they return to Earth]]

* TheReveal:

* ThePromisedLand: Sanctuary, in actuality [[spoiler: an old abandoned space station orbiting Mars]]

* TheOutsideWorld: [[spoiler:Having undergone a HeelFaceTurn, "sandman" Logan 3 escapes the rigidly controlled city with renegade Jennifer 6 to explore the abandoned but habitable colony on Mars. This was later adapted into the film ''Film/LogansRun'' by MGM studios in 1976, changing the outside world to the overgrown but habitable Washington, [=DC=]. A television series follows the further adventures of Logan and Jenny, plus the android Rem.]]
* RapeAsDrama: Logan ''and'' Jess with the Pleasure Gypsies.

* BiTheWay: When Logan goes to the Glass House (think a spot where people meet for anonymous sex), he asses his options in the waiting room - including some "pert Irish lads."

* DeathsHourglass: The life clocks. They're yellow from age 0-6, blue from 7-13 (green in The Movie), red from 14-20, blink red-black-red-black on Lastday, and finally turn black when you hit 21. [[spoiler: Ballard was able to start and run the Sanctuary movement because his life clock malfunctioned, keeping him permanently on red. He uses New You parlors and appropriated identities to keep hiding in plain sight as a Sandman.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: By the time of Logans World, Ballard has been killed while taking out the master computer, which is a death sentence for the people on Sanctuary, as without the resistance, no more supplies can be flown in. On top of that, the destruction of the computer means an end of civilization on Earth. On top of THAT, Logan and Jessica's son Jaq is killed when they return to Earth]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted, Logan and Jessica's son is killed in Logan's World]]

* DeathsHourglass: The life clocks. They're yellow from age 0-6, blue from 7-13 (green in The Movie), red from 14-20, blink red-black-red-black on Lastday, and finally turn black when you hit 21.

* TeenageWasteland: The world is dotted with the remains of once-great cities that now house lawless roving gangs, some of whom are posessed of questionable sanity.

* ReactionaryFantasy: The implication was that, if those damn hippies got their way, they'd create a world where an eleven-year-old girl announces that she's sexually "skilled beyond all others", where fourteen is adulthood and everyone dies at twenty-one.

Before [[Film/LogansRun the movie]], ''Logan's Run'' was a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

* AbnormalAmmo: The Guns carried by the DS Men are 6-chambered revolvers, where each chamber carries a different specialized round. The arsenal of a Sandman resembled the GreenArrow, with rounds named Tangler, Ripper, Nitro, Vapor, Needler, and the dreaded Homer.

* HistoryMarchesOn: The most obvious being that the Little War took place around the year 2000. The construction speed of the Crazy Horse monument recounted in the novel is also extremely optimistic, as in the real year of 2014 the monument is decades of work behind the way it is described by the end of the book's Little War.

* TheReveal

* PromisedLand: Sanctuary, in actuality [[spoiler: an old abandoned space station orbiting Mars]]