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Does this seem too much like "I Am Legend" to anyone else? Yes, the movie came out until the 2000's, but that was the third time it the novel was cinematized, first in the 50's as "Last Man On Earth", then in the 70's as "The Omega Man".
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Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
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