Going through stuff, I found some books..."Logan's Run" by William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.
The first one is probably familiar to many from the old Michael York film. This "Logans Run" book to the right is the first movie edition from 1976. It has red foil in the movie-title logo. The movie was actually based on a fine book from 1967, and there are two fine sequels to it also. One big difference I noticed that was in the book, the world Logan ran around in was the entire earth. In the movie, they compressed the locations into the single shopping-mall like city. The remake movie is supposed to be out in 2012, and will make the characters younger as in the books, instead of the 20-somethings from the 1970s movie.
"The Inverted World" by Christopher Priest. I remember being greatly impressed by this one when I read it in the late 1970s. The cover to the right is from the 1974 edition, which is probably the first edition. The scenario? The last remnants of humanity are packed into a city on a very strange world... and the city has to be moved slowly along a pre-determined but totally undeveloped path or it will be destroyed. So they keep building tracks in front and removing them behind. Sort of like the toy trains in "Gumby". Click here to see a picture of one of those Gumby trains that can go anywhere because it always has a piece of track in front of it.
"Fellowship of the Talisman" by Clifford D Simak. This is probably a first edition, from 1978. The cover art by Michael Whelan is wonderful (click the picture to expand), but the lettering of the title is sub-par, as was typical of many Science Fiction Book Club books.And, of that title. No, it was not followed by "The Two Lighthouses" and "Return of the Royal Guy". Despite the unfortunate title. it's really not much like "Lord of the Rings" other than involving a quest. You've probably never heard of Simak before. One of his stories was adapted as an episode of original "The Outer Limits" entitled "The Duplicate Man". I consider Simak to be one of science-fiction's few greatest writers.
Thoughts? Anyone read these, or know of the authors?
5 comments:
I do like the covers of all these books. The only author I'm really familiar with is William F. Nolan and that is more for stuff he's written for the screen, if I am thinking of the same guy...
I recall these books, though I did not read "The Inverted World" but do recall the cover. I'll have to see if I can find a copy.
I like Clifford D. Simak very much! And I did read this one with the same cover art back in college days. I think my favorite of his was "Way Station." Well worth a read.
"Way Station" and "City", I think, were his two best. I think those are the ones that got the awards.
a remake of Logan's Run? Hummmmm
I own every book Simak ever wrote, Fellowship of the Talisman was not one of the best, but it was not horrible by any means,
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