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Living in a silo is a great setting for sci fi, I have used this concept myself in a piece I wrote a while ago to capture some ideas. It‘s almost as complex as living in a generation populated interstellar ship, where the inhabitants culture morphs and evolves and mutates over time and new hierarchies and class systems get established around limited resources. Logan‘s run was one of the best movies in that setting, juxtaposing an age limited hedonistic society with an unknown „outside“. It is very reminiscent of this and I am looking forward to what spin the auteurs have put on the tropes

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Yes, I did think of Logan’s Run, too! A franchise that deserves a prestigious reboot.

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Or the City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke which was 5 kinds of awesome

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Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World was required viewing in my formative years! Along with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.

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City & stars is a masterpiece that spawned 100 threads over the last 70 years, Logans run is one of them, and so many more fabulous deep concepts

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I will add to my reading list with thanks!

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