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I Am Legend (Film Tie-In) (Gollancz S.F.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Matheson
Publisher: Gollancz
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 153789
Media: Paperback
Edition: Media Tie-in
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0575081988
EAN: 9780575081987
ASIN: 0575081988
Publication Date: December 13, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It seems strange to find a 1954 vampire novel in Millennium's "SF Masterworks" classic reprints series. I Am Legend, though, was a trailblazing and later much imitated story that reinvented the vampire myth as SF. Without losing the horror, it presents vampirism as a disease whose secrets can be unlocked by scientific tools. The hero Robert Neville, perhaps the last uninfected man on Earth, finds himself in a paranoid nightmare. By night, the bloodthirsty undead of small-town America besiege his barricaded house: their repeated cry "Come out, Neville!" is a famous SF catchphrase. By day, when they hide in shadow and become comatose, Neville gets out his wooden stakes for an orgy of slaughter. He also discovers pseudoscientific explanations, some rather strained, for vampires' fear of light, vulnerability to stakes though not bullets, loathing of garlic, and so on. What gives the story its uneasy power is the gradual perspective shift which shows that by fighting monsters Neville is himself becoming monstrous--not a vampire but something to terrify vampires and haunt their dreams as a dreadful legend from the bad old days. I Am Legend was altered out of recognition when filmed as The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston. Avoid the movie; read the book. --David Langford
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 Just leaves me with MORE questions.......but an ok boook June 11, 2008
Monty
Normally, when a film is based on a book I love the book so much more. But not this time. I have to say that I'm liking the film more this time. For anyone that hasn't seen the film or read the book........the book is nothing like the film.......and the film is nothing like the book.. If that makes sense?
The book is good, don't get me wrong. I was scared in parts. However, it's nothing like the film. If you're looking for similar, but better, read 'Salems Lot' by Stephen King.
The only thing the book and the film have in common is that they both involve a man who is probably one of the last few survivors after a virus strikes the population.
With both though, I'm left with lots of questions that aren't addressed and it's frustrating to be 'almost' at the point of knowing it all, but not quite having enough information. I read the book thinking that the unanswered questions from the film would be answered, but all it's done is given me more questions.
 A wonderful collection March 27, 2008
K. Roycroft (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book contains the original version of the story, and is not a book version of the story portrayed in the recent Will Smith movie, as the description above suggests. The only connection this book has with the 2007 film is the picture on its cover.
The ideas that Matheson presents in I Am Legend are truly thought-provoking and provide plenty of food for thought. Although the story is relatively short it will leave you thinking for hours afterwards. This printing also includes several of Matheson's short stories which are quick to read and instantly pleasing. This is a nice little collection and I enjoyed reading it a lot more than watching the movie.
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