Posted December 4, 2015 12:36 am by Comments

By James Rummel

logans run firing gun

Most people of a certain age remember a movie titled Logan’s Run (1976), a science fiction tale of a dystopian society where everyone is only allowed to live until they reach the ripe old age of thirty.

The police in the futuristic domed city used odd ray guns, firearms that spurted a burst of flaming gas while whatever they were aiming at downrange exploded. Certainly cool to see.

What most people don’t know is that the movie was adapted from a rather crappy novel, also titled Logan’s Run. In the book, the police don’t use some sort of blow-stuff-up raygun, but are instead equipped with oversized revolvers. Each cylinder of the sixgun is loaded with special ammunition. One round is lethal, but there are also gas cartridges and even a net thrower. Pretty wild stuff!

Military science fiction author David Drake published a short story in 1976 titled The Hunting Ground. A giant extradimensional scorpion teleports to a small town on our planet in order to collect living humans to act as a food source for it’s larvae. The natural armor of the space arachnid is proof …Read the Rest

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