All Day

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AD-012-ENF · Book · 1967 · novel

Logan's Run

William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson

The machines

A central computer administering a fully automated city.

What people do all day

Nothing whatsoever. Nobody works, nobody needs to, and the days are spent on pleasure, drugs and travel until Lastday arrives at twenty-one and you report for Sleep. The lifespan cap exists because a society with nothing to do had no other way to limit itself.

Pattern

Enforced idleness — Everything is provided, so nothing is left to do — and that turns out to be unbearable.

Note

Cruder than Forster and blunter than WALL·E, and useful precisely for that: it is the only work here where the response to universal leisure is to shorten the life rather than fill it.


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