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Logan's Search

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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.

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!

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.

Stunnung display. Just as good as its' predecessors!