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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Philip Wylie's Vision of L.A.: A Very Bleak OneBy Erik NorthScience fiction writers have been plentiful throughout history; and Philip Wylie, though not a "superstar" like, say, H.G. Wells in his day, or, more recently, Ray Bradbury or Arthur C. Clarke, was someone who always bought something to the table, whether it be in pulp form, satire, or visions of Dystopian futures. He also helped provide the basis for the 1951 sci-fi classic WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, a film that presages by several decades such similar films as METEOR, NIGHT OF THE COMET, ARMAGEDDON, and DEEP IMAPCT.The dark Dystopian side of Wylie was revealed one final time in the screenplay he provided for an episode of the NBC-TV series "The Name Of The Game", an episode entitled L.A. 2017. In it, series regular (as People magazine publisher Glenn Howard) finds himself enmeshed in an ecological nightmare of the 21st century as pollution has forced the citizens of Los Angeles underground and into a society that looks like something out of George Orwell. Wylie's fascinating, sometimes darkly satirical look at this world was further enhanced by what the episode's director, a young "kid" named , did to make it feel realistic in the confines of what might otherwise have been a standard 75 minute-long TV episode. L.A. 2017 aired on January 15, 1971 and was highly acclaimed, thanks to both Wylie's intelligent and sometimes bitingly satirical dialogue and Spielberg's concise direction.The subsequent novel Wylie published shortly after the episode aired, titled "Los Angeles: A.D. 2017", is an excellent expansion on that episode. In many ways, not only does it expand on the episode itself, but it also echoes elements of Orwell's "1984" and Franz Kafka's "The Trial"; and in its view of an ecological nightmare, foretells some of the elements found in the 2006 documentary film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.This novelization was one of the last works published by Wylie, since he passed away at the age of 69 on October 25, 1971. It is a book that is relatively small but a very solid read, especially in light of the TV episode that spawned it, and a reminder of the kind of hard that is not easy to find much anymore these days, either in print or on celluloid.As a sidebar: it would be good for Universal Studios, whose television division produced "The Name Of The Game" (which ran from 1968 to 1971) to release L.A. 2017 on DVD. It is by far one of the single most inventive dramatic episodes ever put on television, in my opinion.3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Detours from social relevance to overplayed sex politicsBy MiaThis was essentially an ambitious expansion of a screenplay from the 1970s tv show that dropped flat on its face. The author was a strong early proponent of the climate crisis theories and as such the book reads eerily prescient in the actual year 2017 where the budget cuts to environmental protections agencies have just been slashed. But while the book starts off promisingly and socially relevant (some paragraphs can be ripped right out of modern newspapers, the top financial magnates refusing to reign in their abuse of nature's resources citing this impediment to progress as unAmerican and son on is practically a satire), it soon remembers that it is a child of the 70s (1971 to be precise) and proceeds as such, a sort of prurient gallop through the futuristic subterranean fascist like society that has developed very specific survival strategies/sex politics including reasonably well argued for eugenics and creepy argued for, not to mention absolutely inexcusable, pedophilia. And so it goes on with a distinctly 70s vibe to its tiresome sex scenes until the inevitable and hugest cop out of all time ending....it was all a dream. Disappointing as a book, this one probably should have been left as a tv episode. At least a pretty quick read.10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. It's The End of the World (as we know it)By S. J. DelongNovelist Philip Wylie, well known for his pro-conservation stance, wrote the teleplay for the made-for-TV L.A. 2017. Publisher Glenn Howard (Gene Barry) is suddenly whisked away from his plush office in 1971. He finds himself in a world beneath the Earth's surface, circa 2017. The powers-that-be in this subterranean world refuse to answer Howard's many questions as to what has happened on the surface, but audiences familiar with Twilight Zone and Outer Limits should catch on fairly quickly. The only science-fiction installment of the otherwise straightforward TV series Name of the Game, LA 2017 originally aired January 15, 1971. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideThe book expands on the premise of environmental collapse, and there was a lot of the book that was not filmed, such as the "swinging" corporate conference in the beginning , and a lot of the flashbacks of environmental disasters were also cut do to lack of tech and money, that were never filmed( gee, we may be living them now ...) and would make a excellent remake today with a large budget, heh, maybe they could even get Steven Spielberg to direct ...In "L.A. 2017," Glenn Howard is on the way back from a top-secret meeting held by a group of top scientists and industrialists discussing the very serious threats the environment (abused by polution) holds for mankind. Howard, a friend of the President of the United States (who happened to be purposefully left in the dark about the meeting), drives along a rural highway outside of L.A. after the meeting, speaking into a tape recording he is making for the President about the meeting. As he drives, Howard opens the air vent to his automobile, letting a healthy dose of L.A. smog and auto exhaust into his car and lungs, which causes him to pass out at the wheel.Time passes and Howard is now slumped over the wheel at the roadside, where his crashed auto has been found by a squad of men wearing odd uniforms and gas masks. Howard is awoken and transported across a suddenly foreign looking terrain-a desolate wasteland--to an underground facility. As he is revived, Howard finds himself in a new world, forty- six years in the future!L.A. is now a small underground outpost where survivors of the ecological catastrophe Howard and the industrialists were discussing in 1971 has come true. After being grilled by the police state (run by psychiatrists!), Howard is indoctrinated into the new society by Dane (Barry Sullivan), the leader of the L.A. branch of the U.S., which is now run by big-business.As Howard learns more about what has become of society, it becomes apparent that Dane and his cohorts are running things as a big-brother dictatorship (in an oppressive future society not unlike "1984," "THX-1138," "Brazil" (both films share 'well-meaning' terrorist bombings), or Spielberg's own "Minority Report"), where personal freedoms, life, and love are no longer a benefit of freewill...

A stark and terrifying vision of an apocalyptic, environmentally ravaged near-future world from a 20th-century master of thought-provoking science fiction. In a writing career that spanned six decades, Philip Wylie created an astonishing body of work that ranged from science fiction to suspense to philosophy to social criticism while inspiring the creation of such iconic characters as , , , and Travis McGee. In Los Angeles: A.D. 2017, based on Wylie's own teleplay written for the hit 1970s TV series The Name of the Game, directed by a young Steven Spielberg, the author imagines a dystopian future in which environmental disaster has driven the remnants of humankind belowground. By the year 2017, a series of ecological catastrophes have eliminated most of the Earth's population while destroying the America we once knew. The few who have survived live in underground bunkers beneath the ruins of the nation's major cities, controlled by ruthless corporate entities that have remolded the devastated society into USA, Inc. This is the nightmare into which crusading magazine publisher Glenn Howard awakens after 40 years of sleep. As a powerful 20th-century entrepreneur, Howard is expected to join the elite. But in this dark future age, population numbers are strictly controlled by computer; the aged, infirm, and unproductive are mercilessly eliminated; and all dissent is punished by death. For an idealist like Howard, accepting the new status quo is unthinkable. But the alternative - working with a secret rebel committed to overthrowing the cruel corporate masters - could prove the most dangerous route of all, a path that leads inexorably to one unthinkable outcome: erasure.

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