Yup, it's cheese. But I seriously doubt anyone would have started with book 3, so any reader is very likely going to have experienced the cheesy flavours of Logan' Run and Logan's World. So, really, by book three, you had to know Nolan was running on fumes.

Reading like a drugged-out SF version of The Wizard of Oz, Nolan runs Logan (predictably) all over the world (again). But this time it's an alternate world (cue the "ooo's" and "aaahhh's"). What this means is, Nolan can rewrite Logan's Run, keeping as much as he wants to keep and changing whatever the hell he wants to change.

He builds to a completely different ending, which is stolen from the Oz book.

What I simultaneously love and hate about Nolan's writing is that his characters make such stunningly stupid choices, that they always happen to have exactly the right thing they need close at hand to save their own asses, and his characters always give Logan exactly the right information he needs at exactly the right time through casual conversation and no prompting from Logan's part. "Hey Logan, I know I've just met you and this is crazy, but...can I explain exactly how this entire centre works including the weak points and how to exploit them? Thank you...carrying on..."

I do love how the technology has aged so poorly as well. Robots have programming on tapes. Food is dialed up. And robots are stupid as hell. Then again, so are most of the characters, so I guess that's okay.

Still, there's a certain charm to the entire Logan series. It's not the actual stories that drew me, it's the concepts. In the hands of a solid writer, someone to swipe away all the plot holes, inconsistencies, bad writing techniques, 70s misogyny, and cliches, there really would be something beautiful and engaging here.

Bottom line, I'm glad I read them, but I'm also glad I'm done and won't have to read them anymore. ( )

Very ordinary. I struggled to finish this book. The first of the series is imaginative and well paced, if not particularly well written. By this book, Nolan has run out of ideas and attempts a rehash of the first story, with extra aliens, alternate universes and telepathy. He shouldn't have bothered. ( )

The weakest of the trilogy, this is all rather far fetched and derivative and there seems little point to it other than to complete a set of three Logan novels. ( )