Editing Logan's Run (section)

==Plot==
The introduction to the book says:

{{bquote|The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with [[sit-in]]s and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s, over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under twenty-one years of age. The population continued to climb—and, with it, the youth percentage. In the 1980s, the figure was 79.7 percent. In the 1990s, 82.4 percent. In the year 2000—[[Critical mass (sociodynamics)|critical mass]].}}

In the world of 2116, a person's maximum age is strictly legislated: 21 years, to the day. When people reach this ''Lastday'' they report to a ''[CTF] Sleepshop'' in which they are willingly executed via a pleasure-inducing toxic gas. A person's age is revealed by their ''palm flower'' crystal embedded in the palm of their right hand that changes color every seven years; yellow (age 0–6), then blue (age 7–13), then red (age 14–20), then blinks red and black on Lastday, and finally turns black at 21.

''Runners'' are those who refuse to report to a Sleepshop and attempt to avoid their fate by escaping to Sanctuary—a place where they can live freely in defiance of society's dictates. Logan 3 is a ''Deep Sleep Operative'' (also called a ''Sandman'') whose job is to terminate Runners using a special weapon called simply "the gun", a handgun with selectable ordnance keyed to self-destruct if touched by an individual who is not the proper owner. Runners are most terrified of a weapon called the "Homer", which homes in on body heat and ignites every pain nerve in the body, killing the target.

Sandmen practice Omnite, a hybrid type of [[martial arts]]. On his own Lastday, Logan becomes a Runner himself in an attempt to infiltrate an apparent [[Underground Railroad|underground railroad]] for runners seeking Sanctuary.

For most of the book, Logan is an [[antihero]]; however, his character develops a sympathy towards Runners, and he becomes more of a traditional hero figure.

Despite her initial distrust of him, he is aided by Jessica 6, a contact that Logan made after he chased her Runner brother, Doyle 10, into Cathedral, where he was killed by the vicious pre-teens known as "Cubs".

Francis, another Sandman and a friend of Logan, catches up with Logan and Jessica after they have managed to make it to the final staging area before Sanctuary. Francis reveals that his true identity is that of the legendary Ballard, who has been helping arrange their escape. Francis tells them he is actually aged 42, but due to his faulty palm flower, which does not change color, and through use of plastic-surgery shops, he has been able to disguise his true age and appearance. He is working from within the system, as he believes the computer controlling the global infrastructure, buried beneath [[Crazy Horse Memorial|Crazy Horse]] Mountain, is beginning to malfunction, and that society will die with it.

Sanctuary turns out to be Argos, a previously abandoned [[Space habitat|space colony]] near [[Mars]].

Logan and Jessica escape to the colony on a rocket, which departs from a former space program launch site in Florida, while Ballard remains to help others escape.