''Logan's World'' (1977) is a

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novel by American writer William F. Nolan. It is a sequel to ''

Logan's Run ''Logan's Run'' is a science fiction novel by American writers William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, the novel depicts a dystopic Malthusian future society in which both population and the consumption of resources ...

'' (1967), written by Nolan and

George Clayton Johnson George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer, who co-wrote with William F. Nolan the novel '' Logan's Run'', the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He also wrote television scripts for ''The Tw ...

Plot

Logan and Jessica have lived on Argos (the fabled ''Sanctuary''), a

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in orbit around

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, for four years, along with 3,000 other ''Runners''. They have a two-year-old son named Jaq. On

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, 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. While he is killed in the explosion, he succeeds in destroying the computer network and making the world free. With Ballard's 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

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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

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murders Jaq and kidnaps Jessica. Logan finds himself on the run again, this time to save his wife and avenge his murdered son. As the story unfolds, he meets blind mystics who live on the rusted shell of the

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, he travels to the

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Complex and finally back to Crazy Horse Mountain, where he discovers the Thinker is being reactivated by Gant, a former Deep Sleep operative who despises 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 re-enslave humankind.

Continuity

Logan still has his Sandman gun in this novel, which is a

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by Nolan as he lost it at the end of the previous novel when it went "wild" (sounded an alarm when Logan's palm flower went black). In this book, Logan has the gun in a box. In the third novel in the series, ''Logan's Search'', Nolan addresses this apparent continuity error as Logan muses about how he obtained and altered another Sandman's gun after joining the Wilderness People, to deactivate its identity sensing technology, which is described as an exacting and delicate process, meaning that the gun he uses in ''Logan's World'' is not his original gun.

History

Following the success of the 1976 film version ''

'', Nolan had pitched a sequel. MGM expressed interest in adapting ''Logan's World'' as a film, but the original film's producer Saul David had opted to focus on a ''

'' TV series instead.Jason V. Brock, Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, p. 106. ''Logan's World'' was published by Bantam in 1977.

Comic adaptation

Beginning in May 1991,

Adventure Comics ''Adventure Comics'' is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1938 to 1983 and revived from 2009 to 2011. In its first era, the series ran for 503 issues (472 of those after the title changed from ''New Adventure Comics''), ...

published a 6 issue bimonthly adaptation of ''Logan's World'' by Tom Mason, Chris Ulm and Barry Blair

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