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I very much prefer the Classic TMP Cold War setting, but it's fun to speculate on other post-holocaust settings. The novel "Logan's World", the sequel to the novel "Logan's Run" would be very interesting.

My wife: "If it's a boy, can we name him 'Logan'?"

Me: "Sure, only if his middle name is 'Five'!"

My wife: "?"

Logan's World was very much a post-apocalypse novel set a decade after civilisation on Earth (which was much more extensive in the novel than in the movie) was completely destroyed by the destruction of the Thinker supercomputer by Ballard. People now scrape a living in the wilderness (like the "Forest People") or run in gangs that prowl in the massive abandoned city sprawls ("LA Complex", NY Complex", etc.). There are a few remnants of high technology, such as a black market run out of a small part of the self-sustaining "Green Giants" twin arcology in New York. Transportation technology includes "Devil Sticks" (jet bikes), paravanes (some kind of ducted-fan transport) and hovercars. I don't recall the power sources, probably solar. Aside from the Forest People, black marketeers and the Devil-Stick riding gang called the Gypsies, Logan also runs into the remnants of the fearsome DS (Deep Sleep) organisation, the Sandmen. Weapons include the Flamer, a kind of laser, and of course the multi-functional Gun of the Sandman (settings selected by rotating the cylinder included Flamer, Ripper, Tangler and of course the fearsome Homer).

It's been a long time since I read this book but I remember scenes like Logan sneaking into the city to find drugs to heal Jaq, his son by Jessica, and having to slide down the long-dead burn chute at Carousel to elude pursuit by the gangs, finding the medicine in a Creche filled with crib pods with tiny skeletons. The dead Maze system. A small family lives on the remains of the partially-destroyed Golden Gate bridge. In the novel Logan's Run, Steel City (Pittsburgh, a completely automated manufacturing centre run by robots), and some abandoned underwater city is mentioned, along with the abandoned rocket port at Cape Steinbeck (these are called the "dark places").

Although you could set a game earlier, with a team waking up in the radioactive ruins of Washington DC (another "dark place", nuked during the "Little War" that instituted the "death by 21" society) during or just after the events of Logan's Run, there is still a functioning society at that point.

Tony