I Am Legend

I Am Legend is a science fiction novel written in 1954 by the American author Richard Matheson. The story of the novel takes place in a then-futuristic Los Angeles of 1976 where a plague has transformed all of humanity into vampires, except for the protagonist Robert Neville. The novel has been adapted into three films, the first being The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price, which was released in 1964. The second adaptation was the 1971 film The Omega Man which featured Charlton Heston in the lead role. The most recent adaptation of the novel is the 2007 film I Am Legend starring Will Smith.

See Also

• The 100 (TV series)
• 28 Days Later, 2002
• 28 Weeks Later, 2007
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. A classic nuclear|nuke]] scenario. This book was a key influence in James Wesley Rawles writing and it was his inspiration to write “Patriots” in a similar style
• Atlas Shrugged
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Battlestar Galactica‎
• Blade Runner
• The Book of Eli, 2010
• Brave New World
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Cast Away, 2000
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Colony (TV series)
• Deliverance, 1972
• Dr. Strangelove by Peter George and Stanley Kubrick (1964)
• Earth Abides by George Stewart
• Elysium
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
• Escape from New York
• Fahrenheit 451
• Falling Skies
• Firefly (TV series)
• The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965 with James Stewart
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Hunger Games, 2008
• The Grey, 2011, with Liam Neeson
• I Am Legend, 1954 by Richard Matheson, 2007 film with Will Smith
• Into the Wild, 2007
• Jericho (TV series)
• Jeremiah (TV series)
• Judge Dredd 1995
• The Last Man on Earth, or The Last Man on Earth, 1964 Italian film with Vincent Price
• Left Behind, 1995 to 2007 by [[[Tim LaHaye]]
• Life of Pi, 2012
• Lifeboat, 1944
• Lights Out by David Crawford (Post-EMP attack.)
• Logan's Run
• Lucifer's Hammer, 1977 by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Mad Max 1981
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
• The Matrix, 1999, 2003
• Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party
• Minority Report
• Night of the Living Dead, 1968 by George A. Romero
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
• One Second After, 2009 by William R. Forstchen
• Outbreak (film), 1995 with Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland
• Open Water, 2003
• Patriots Novels Series by James Wesley Rawles
  • Survivors - A Novel of the Coming Collapse
  • Founders - A Novel of the Coming Collapse
  • Expatriates - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
  • Liberators - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
• Panic in Year Zero!, 1962 with Ray Milland
• Planet of the Apes 1968 by Pierre Boulle
• Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe-out scenario. This book was another with an influence in James Wesley Rawles writing.)
• The Omega Man, 1971
• The Omen
• The Poseidon Adventure, 1972 with Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine
• The Postman, 1997
• The Purge
• Rescue Dawn, 2006 by Werner Herzog with Christian Bale
• Resident Evil, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2012 with Milla Jovovich
• Robinson Crusoe, 1719 by Daniel Defoe, 1954 and 1997 film with Pierce Brosnan
• RoboCop
• The Road Warrior 1981 (Mad Max 2)
• The Running Man
• Serenity
• [[Silent Running]
• Soylent Green
• Stagecoach, 1939
• Star Trek: First Contact, 1996
• The Stand (TV series), 1994 by Stephen King, starring Gary Sinise and Rob Lowe
• Swiss Family Robinson, 1960, based on 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2006, 2009 film with Viggo Mortensen
• The Terminator frachise, 1984, 1991, 2003, 2007, 2009
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Terminator Salvation
• Terminator Genisys
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• THX 1138
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Total Recall
• V for Vendetta
• The Walking Dead, 2010-2015
• WALL-E
• Watchmen
• World War Z, 2006 by Max Brooks, 2013 film with Brad Pitt
• X-Men: Days of Future Past, 2014

• Survivalist fiction
• Dystopian fiction