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Following up on a recent request from Steven Lindlbauer, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 1967 book Logan’s Run, by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson and its 1976 adaptation to film and 1977 adaptation to television.
Thank you so much again for the shout-out, moving this up the queue, and sharing some of my feedback. Somewhere around here I have that fanzine where two of my friends interviewed George Clayton Johnson. (Unfortunately I missed out.)
He wrote some episodes of the original Rod Serling, Twilight Zone. I believe “Kick the Can” was one of them.
I don’t know if I mentioned how Logan’s Run had a lot of negative reviews at the time. The slick SF magazine, Cinefantastique, titled their article and review of it as, “The Science Fiction Boom Begins With a Bomb.” The coming boom was Star Wars, released a year later. I see now how quite a few people like the movie.
When they wrote it, it was a reaction to the youth culture of the 60’s. The film had more of a Me Generation, mall consumer culture.
Oh, and the Logan’s Run costume at conventions at the time, also included females in the lovely sheer Jessica outfits. Though not quite as sheer, lol.