![]() ![]() Numerous editions of I Am Legend have been published over the years. Hard or soft science fiction? Psychological horror? Last-person-on-earth? Post-apocalyptic? Vampire? Zombie? Dystopian? Pandemic? Science fiction? Horror? Fantasy? And within those genres, what subgenre its narrative falls into. The ambiguities have also led to disagreements even about what kind of story this is, what genre it belongs to. ![]() And yet for readers the through-story holds up brilliantly from premise to unexpected conclusion. ![]() This has confused some critics who have felt the work was direction-less, leaving too many plot ideas undeveloped. I Am Legend is a novella dripping with narrative ideas, as though a writer's career of speculative fictions have been jammed into one slim volume. ![]() It's probably safe to say many more people are familiar with parts of Richard Matheson's story through its impact on writing and other media than through its original pages. CRITIQUE | THE TEXT | THE MOVIES A legendary storyĬritics may not have known what to make of it when it came out in 1954, but what has been made of I Am Legend since then has been several fields of popular fiction, multiple movie adaptations, lots of knockoffs, and works inspired in all media. ![]()
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