Logan's World

infobox Book
name = Logan's World
author = William F. Nolan
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
genre = science fiction
publisher = Bantam Books
release_date = December, 1977
media_type = Print Paperback
pages = 149 pp (first edition, paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-553-11418-2 (first edition, paperback)

Logan's World (1977) is a science fiction novel by William F. Nolan. It is a sequel to "Logan's Run" (1967), written by Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

Plot

Logan and Jessica have lived on Argos (the fabled "Sanctuary"), a space station in orbit about Mars, for four years, along with three thousand other "Runners". They have a two-year-old son named Jaq.

On Earth, Ballard's escape line for Runners at Cape Steinbeck is discovered and destroyed by Deep Sleep operatives. Ballard escapes to Crazy Horse Mountain, and sabotages the Thinker complex buried in the catacombs below the statue. Though he is killed in the explosion he sets to destroy the computer network, the world is free.

With his death, supply ships to Argos cease. For six more years the Runners there hang on, until there are less than a few dozen of them. They have no more food, and plague is running rampant. They draw straws--a handful will return to Earth. Logan, Jessica and Jaq are among those chosen.

Logan and family settle with a group called the Wilderness People along the Potomac River in Washington D. C. Life is tough--learning to farm is not easy--but good until Jaq falls deathly ill. Logan sneaks back into the Angeles Complex to get medicine for his son. While he is gone, an insane pack of devilstick-riding Borgia gypsies murders Jaq and kidnaps Jessica.

Logan is on the run again. A run for revenge, a run to rescue his wife.

As the story unfolds, he meets blind mystics who live on the rusted shell of the Golden Gate Bridge, he travels to the New York Complex, and finally back to Crazy Horse Mountain where he discovers the Thinker is being reactivated by Gant, a former DS man, one who passionately hates Logan for his part in destroying his world. Gant has purchased Jessica from the gypsies to lure Logan into a trap.

Mary Mary, a young woman, who as a "Cub" met Logan and Jessica on their earlier run, helps them defeat Gant's plan to reenslave mankind.

ee also

* "Logan's Run"
* "Logan's Run (1976 film)"
* William F. Nolan
* George Clayton Johnson

External Links

[http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/5357/lgnswrld.htm Plot Synopsis]