The depiction of suburbia and the sprawling cityscape of Los Angeles reads like it was written yesterday. I Am Legend is a present day what-if scenario applied to vampires, asking the question, what if Dracula was real and vampires gained the upper hand on modern society? It was written in 1954, but you wouldn’t know it. OK, so you’ve seen the movie, but have you read the book? Unlike most movie adaptations, from the Twilight saga to Harry Potter and more recently The Hunger Games, this novel is entirely different to the movie, and that allows both to coexist quite merrily, without comparisons as to which is the better. There are no graphic depictions of someone being dismembered, no cruel descriptions of barbaric behaviour, but rather there is a breathtaking speculative attempt to apply science to superstition. The novel I Am Legend is considered a modern horror story, the forerunner of such apocalyptic movies as Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later, and games/movies like Resident Evil, and yet, when you read the book, it is clearly science fiction, not horror.
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