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Like Philip K. Dick in his epic "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Matheson used this sci-fi vampire tale to embody a powerful idea, in this case post modernism. The hero Robert Neville is a lone survivor amid a world of vampires. By day he works to survive, by night he holes up in his barricaded house, trying to stave off madness, induced by fear, grief, and being alone. Gradually, in a process that seems to mirror evolutionistic human history, Neville transcends his primal human needs to try to control his world, but ultimately he must face the absolutely fundamental changes to a world no longer his. The novel shares more with the spirit of the grim featurettes that one finds as bonus material on the "I AM LEGEND" DVD than with the hope injected into Will Smith's feature film. A deathly dark tale, excellently told, "I AM LEGEND" follows the spirit of postmodernism by its story form, as well as voicing its darkest vision of the world.
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