![]() ![]() The novel was adapted to film in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, as Omega Man in 1971 and finally as I am Legend in 2007, starring Will Smith. (1926-2013) is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man. The two become close and he learns from Ruth that the infected have learned to fight the disease and can spend short amounts of time in the daylight, slowly rebuilding strength and society as it was. The iconic science fiction vampire novel, adapted into the film starring Will Smith. Neville soon meets a woman, Ruth, (after three years alone), who seems to be uninfected and a lone survivor. Several humanistic and emotional themes in this book blend the horror genre with traditional fiction: we see Neville as an emotional person, and observe as he suffers bouts of depression, dips into alcoholism and picks up his strength again to fight the vampiric bacteria that has infected (and killed off) most of humankind. ![]() I Am Legend was a major influence in horror and brought a whole new thematic concept to apocalyptic literature. He must, because perhaps there is nothing else human left. He must now struggle to make sense of everything that has happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him constantly. ![]() The entire population has been obliterated by a vampire virus. Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. ![]()
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