A not very good novel on which the 1976 movie starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter is based. The book is somewhat better than the book in a few ways, but both are pretty bad, and the problems with it are not unique in the genre.
So the set up is that decades after an uprising among the young against the old, human society has grown extraordinarily in technology (interconnected underground railroads that near instantaneously transport people all over the world for example) but humans only live 21 years before they are due to report for instant death, called the long sleep.
Logan is a Sandman, a hunter who chases after runners, those who try to live past this time. After chasing down one runner early in the novel, he finds a key that would provide access to an underground liberation group helping runners escape from the Sandmen. He takes the key, runs, and changes his appearance, and joins up with the sister of the dead runner.
So what follows is a jump through different areas of the world peopled by groups who have reacted to these societal changes in numerous ways: suicidal adrenaline cults, fights to the death in arctic wastelands, and roving bands of gangs under the age of 10. All of which would be cool, if only the novel weren’t like 100 pages.
The fatal flaw of the novel is that the main character is a cop. Fuck that.
But more so, the issue is that it’s secretly deeply conservative and anti-protest. It comes to the conclusion that the new world is completely screwed up without dealing with the problems of the world that was killing the young. I say this as an old.
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