

Then logan turned 21 - and suddenly he was desperately running, searching, in a world of cities beneath the sea, frozen arctic prison colonies, great hollowed-out mountains, abandoned cities. Logan was a Sandman, one of the elite police who hunted those who refused to accept their fate. But the trip from grove to grave was quick. The Youth Rebellion Had Triumphed.The young long since had taken over the Earth. The story follows the actions of Logan, a Sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and kills citizens who "run" from society's lethal demand - only to end up " running" himself.

First published by Dial Press in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of citizens who reach a particular age. Logan's Run is a novel by William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
