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I'm reading Logan's Run, the novel that inspired the movie. While the movie is a fairly straight-forward story, the novel is way more bat-shit. Murderous children. A mentally unstable cyborg ice sculptor. A giant maze of pneumatic tubes that rapidly take cars to all known parts of the inhabited world, including a mostly abandoned underwater city...
It's definitely not a work of literary genius, but it's super entertaining and fast-paced. If you like weird sci-fi, I highly recommend it.
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Also, in the book, Lastday is at 21, not 30.
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Nearly finished Logan's Run and it's sort of quaint in its Malthusian doom. In 2000 (of course called "the year 2000," as was the style at the time), there is a crisis due to the world population rapidly approaching 6 billion (lol). There are global food shortages, but the young people don't like the forced birth control and eugenics measures, so they rebel and take over all world governments. Eventually, by 2072, no one over 21 is alive and the whole "Lastday" thing is in effect worldwide.
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Finished reading Logan's Run. Decent ending with a twist that seems simultaneously obvious and totally nonsensical.
Not a masterpiece, by any means, but it's a fun read. The writing is quick and punchy, so it's a quick read and less than 200 pages. I'm actually kind of curious about the sequel now.
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