Yes, you should continue to do retro reviews. People these days need to know that there are good books out there that weren’t necessarily turned into movies.
Thanks. I just wasn't sure about reviewing books that might be difficult, or expensive, to find. But, I guess it's up to each individual, whether they want to search it out, and, maybe, pay high prices.
I first came across this book in my local Library in the Springtime of 1978 and even read it for a book report and did an oral lecture of it in front of the class and it was quite interesting.
I don't recall if I saw the movie or the TV show first, but I love both. (As a kid/teen, I loved the shows Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.) I din't read the books until sometime in the last 10 years. I still haven't read the third one.
My mother was a Treky who loved science fiction and horror films so of course I saw Logan's Run about 8 or 9 years old at the time. Have to wonder if this story inspired "The Hunger Games". To this day I still feel how much Logan's Run upset me as a child, got under my skin. Didn't scare me, but had the sense to realize there are super bad people in the world. I have not watched it ever again, nor read the book. The first time was enough. Felt the same about The Hunger Games. Ya know, it's not the bad people in these stories that bother me, it's the good! Why do good people allow bad people to get away with evil! Darlin, as stated before, I like what you do. Keep it spicy! Surprise us! Keep us on our toes. If there is a will there is a way. If I really wanted a book despite its age, I would find it. I like a challenge. Anything worth having is worth a challenge, fight etc. Cheers!
I loved Sci-Fi in the 60s/70s/80s. Just on TV we had Star Trek, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Logan's Run show, Planet of the Apes show, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, and so much more. And I loved it all! I always say that The Hunger Games is a rip-off of Battle Royale, the Japanese novel/movie. Both the book and movie are great, if you can handle kids being forced to murder kids. (Middle school in the book. High school in the movie.)
@@ErikSmith57 I recognize all the shows you mentioned, but afraid the memory doesn't remember any of the content, except for Star Trek. Every story is a "rip off", there isn't a story that hasn't been told, retold; like sex, nothing new, only someone new 😋
Actually it's in the movie as well as in the TV Show that 30 is the age of termination instead of 35 as told here and 21 is in the Trilogy of the Logan books of Logan's Run; Logan's World; and Logan's Search.
I've never touched any of Nolan's books. Just haven't had the chance. I have the TV series on DVD, saw it when it first aired in either 77 or 78. It was sorta-kinda interesting for what it wasa. The problem with TV is that it's primarily focused with educating the viewing audience on interpersonal conflict, spotting criminality or criminal situations, and health matters. SciFi for TV and film is usually focused on people with abnormal psychology or psychiatric issues, so the stories get tweaked to carry those themes. What bothered me about all scifi TV is that both Lucas and Kubrick showed that you could do good SFX for 35mm film, but shows like the Logan's Run TV series had some of the worst effects, and neither York nor Agutter did TV, so you had a couple of second or third tier TV actors assuming their roles. The SFX were hokey, the stories were formulated to meet the health criteria that all visual mass media operates under; "show no harm, do no harm, violence is in the context of saving loved ones and punishing malefactors", and there were the budgetary constraints not to mention the fiction had been reworked from the movie, which had reworked the fiction from the books. I really hate film and TV these days, and refuse to watch it, but one of the issues I've had with the scifi genre is that a lot of it was taken over or absconded by behavioral science doctors who wrote really horrible shit stories with little appeal. I've been suspicious of the Logan series because of that. Typically behavrioal science authors write about people, aliens or computers that go haywire, or torture sessions where the main character winds up with a woman, career, monetary reward and social recognition, which is a psyhiatric rehab formula---used quite often in feature films. It's hard to find TRUE and HONEST science fiction that just has real science in it, maybe some combat,, and situations that aren't taken out of some medical book on abnormal psychology dressed up as monsters and aliens. My friend read the series. I guess he liked it. He brought it up every now and then, but between the feature film and the TV show I had no desire to pick up the books.
I think I would have been okay to spoil the book considering when it was created and I think it would have made readers new and especially the old fans of this book series curious about how the stories would have turned out. Logan's run, Logan's world, and Logan's search and the unfinished Logan spinoff Jessica's run are the only books I know still exist.
I've never read Logan's Run or seen the movie. I do have a couple of short story collections by William F. Nolan though. I'm interested in reading Logan's Run and its sequels. I love pulpish science fiction though I don't read a ton of any kind of science fiction. I've nearly read everything by Octavia Butler and enjoyed those immensely. I think you should do retro reviews. Personally, I own and buy books that were originally published decades ago. I have books by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Chester Himes and other authors that I haven't read. I'm definitely interested in older books as much as I'm interested in modern ones.
I really like the movie. It has been quite some time since I have seen it, but I remember thinking that it could be remade, without a single change to the script. (It is a VERY 70s looking movie.) I'm ashamed to say that I have not read any Octavia Butler. Kindred has been on my radar for a long time, but I just haven't gotten around to it, or any other.
I always recommend The Parable of The Sower and it's sequel The Parable of The Talents. But I've liked everything she's written. There will always be an author we've never read before. Every year I try to read an author who is new to me.
I will check those out. I think that I read so many new, or newish, authors, that I sometimes forget to go back and check out some older authors that I may have missed along the way.
yah I remember the tv show and the movie both watched them in the late 70s. love em . Yep this book is avaiable on audible. I will be getting around to listening to it soon. btw, I have been reading Greig Beck books lately they are quite excellent I highly recomend them for a mix of sci fi horror military genre. esp. te Alex Hunter series.
@@ErikSmith57 frist saw her on Logan's run before American werewolf in London. Recently I watched her in the movie Walkabout, excellent, other roles that standout for me, was her portrayal of Morgan Le Faye in Last Defender of Camelot story for the 80s Twilight zone and MI-5.
@@johnwalsh4857 Even though I had seen her in Logan's Run and An American Werewolf, her name registered until I watched the original, British version of Coupling. They talk about Jenny Agutter in Walkabout.
