Logan's Search (Logan Series #3) [Paperback]

William F. Nolan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books (January 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553138057
• ISBN-13: 978-0553138054
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,050,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With 85 books to his credit, plus hundreds of scripts, articles and short stories embracing a dozen genres, William F. Nolan is an official Living Legend (voted that honor by the International Horror Guild).
As a noted pulp historian, he is a recognized authority on Black Mask, Dashiell Hammett, and "Max Brand" (Frederick Faust). Nolan has edited six collections of Faust tales, has written Max Brand: Western Giant, and is the author of the forthcoming biography King of the Pulps: The Man Who Was Max Brand. Nolan's historical anthology, The Black Mask Boys, is the key work on the legendary magazine - and he's written three books on Dashiell Hammett, plus several pieces on the early pulp fiction of his longtime pal, Ray Bradbury.
Nolan states: "I began my fiction career [13 novels and 185 stories] too late for the pulps, but I did have letters printed in Planet Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries - and I grew up reading Argosy and Weird Tales."
Recently voted a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Dark Fantasy, Nolan is currently at work on ten new books. His most famous creations, Logan's Run, is now out in comic-book format from Bluewater Productions - and a new mega-budget film version is due from Warner Bros. in 2012.
Nolan lives in Vancouver, Washington, with an apartment full of books, pulp magazines, and stuffed animals.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Logan's Running...again, December 11, 2010

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William H Hardman (Mansfield, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logan's Search (Logan Series #3) (Paperback)

Though I haven't read this book since it first came out in paperback, nearly 30 years ago, I do remember a bit about it. It comes across as if Nolan wrote it to try and cash in on the interest in the original Logan's Run since it had recently been an Academy Award winning movie and a short lived TV series.

The story has a race of aliens plucking Logan from his home and placing him on an alternate Earth to see if he his actions and their consequences were a fluke, or if he can "free" another world.

More or less a "what if I had done this instead" story, Logan's Search was a weak end to the triolgy, but enjoyable for die hard Logan fans.

3.0 out of 5 stars I hate to say it, but..., December 1, 2011

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JD "firestorm" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Logan's Search (Logan Series #3) (Paperback)

it's not so great. Logan's Run is of course a classic, and the little-known second story. Logan's World, is a masterpeice -- possibly my favorite science fiction novel, certainly in the top five. So when I recently discovered there was a third novel, I had to get it. Unfortunately, it really wasn't anything special. It wasn't bad, exactly; I love Nolan's writing style. He's brilliant. But this story of Logan being sent to a mirror world to virtually re-write history never really takes off. The aliens tell him not to seek out the Jessica of that world, but of course, we're hoping he will, and he does... but even that never really gets interesting. There's a couple of twists at the end, which I'll admit I didn't see coming,but it's like, so what? The story as a whole is sort of like that, too. Again, it's not terrible, but don't go out of your way for it. Sorry, Nolan. Read Logan's World instead!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, September 2, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logan's Search (Logan Series #3) (Paperback)

Logan's Search, the third book in the Logan series, is really pretty pointless. It takes him out of the setting of the first couple, and has a lot of elements of do it all again.

Exploring further what was going on originally, on his own world, would have been a much better idea.