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Logan's Run

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this book is about this futueistic world where everyone gets a chip in thier hand as a baby and when they are like 35 or something that chip gets deactivated and they die.this keeps the population under control.well ol logan didnt dig this idea and takes a hike and big brother goes out after him.thats about what i remember other than the book was fantastic and the movie wasnt all that great.

I picked up a copy of Logan's Run with this exact cover in Kidd's Bookstore in Cincinnati in November of 1969. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. Logan is a policeman(of sorts)in this futuristic novel about over population. Each child when born has a "rose" implanted in the palm of the right hand. It is red in the beginning, but it changes colors throughout the individual's life. However, it turns black when you reach the age of twenty-one. At this point you are supposed to turn yourself in to the governemtn to be eliminated. Some don't; hence, they are called runners. Logan hunts them down and kills them. When Logan's turns black, he runs along with another runner. Reading this book was like riding a rollor coaster at top speed. I had a hard time putting it down, and I was genuinely saddened when the book ended and there wasn't anymore.
I did get the feeling that the ending left room for a sequel.