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V: The Second Generation, by Kenneth Johnson

Millions thrilled to Kenneth Johnson's hugely popular mini-series "V," an action filled drama of alien invasion, a TV event that was also a number one bestselling novel. Now, in a new novel based on the sequel miniseries currently being developed for TV, the tension between The Visitors and Earth's human inhabitants has reached a boiling point.

The reptilian Visitors, who cleverly portray themselves as Earth's protectors, are anything but. Our oceans are being drained in order to fuel the aliens' motherships, and our scientists are treated like wanted criminals. And they have pods of preserved humans destined for even more sinister purposes.

But hope is not lost. A small, yet resourceful Resistance risks everything to undermine the Visitors' stranglehold on Earth's people. Despite their heroic efforts, without more help they will be crushed by the Visitors and their human militia. Just when Earth's doom seems inevitable, agents of an alien civilization from another planet arrive in answer to humanity's desperate call for help. But can these other aliens be trusted? Or might we defeat one alien overlord, only to be delivered into the hands of another, equally as oppressive?

Time is running out for the Resistance, for when the Visitors' Leader arrives, the aliens will complete their mission on Earth, with devastating consequences for all life on the planet.

  • Sales Rank: #2444326 in Books
  • Brand: Brand: Tor Books
  • Published on: 2008-02-05
  • Released on: 2008-02-05
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.22" h x 1.60" w x 6.14" l,
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 448 pages
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From Publishers Weekly
Johnson has been writing television science fiction (The Six Million Dollar Man; Alien Nation) for over three decades. Anticipating the 2008 television spin-off from the cult classic miniseries V, Johnson has created this insubstantial tie-in novel. Twenty years after invading, the Visitors now have a solid chokehold on Earth's scientists, intellectuals, celebrities and natural resources. While there remains an active resistance movement, they cannot stop the domination of Earth on their own. Enter the alien Zedti. Enemies of the Visitors (though sharing their general lack of concern for individual human lives), the Zedti come to the aid of the resistance efforts. Throughout, it remains ambiguous whether the Zedti are truly friends of humanity. The plethora of whiz-bang action scenes and huge cast of underdeveloped characters make this more of a primer for the new miniseries than a novel worth reading in its own right.
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Praise for the miniseries "V"

"A space age version of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." -Kenneth Clark, UPI

"…The best kind of science fiction: the kind that makes you think about the meaning of life on Earth. 'V' is a morality tale, a story of how people react in the face of overwhelming tyranny. It's prime-grade television." -Nick Coleman, Minneapolis Star & Tribune

" 'V' harbors a great deal of relevant social commentary on our misuse of water, our dependence on mass-communication, our commercialization of daily life…Perhaps comparing it to Orwell may be reaching a bit, but it certainly is superior commercial television fare." - Christian Science Monitor

"…Best miniseries in more than a year.  Kenneth Johnson…knows how to make magic…" -Lee Winfrey, Philadelphia Inquirer

'V' makes a mesmerizing nightmare." -Tom Shales, Washington Post

" 'V' -Victorious as sci-fi miniseries…Dazzling…An intelligent, imaginative, engrossing four hour drama. 'V' is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking drama that keeps the viewer engaged." -Kay Gardella, New York Daily News

"Right at the top we know that 'V' isn't just another fling at science fiction - it is nothing less than a retelling of history - the rise of the Nazis done as a cautionary science fiction fable. For television this is probably a first. It is by politics and ideology that you will know 'V'." -John Corry, New York Times

"…Kenneth Johnson and his very good cast and technicians succeed in giving us an imaginative first-class thriller of substance and social significance." -Judith Crist, TV Guide

"…Absolutely stunning…a riveting tale that is utterly convincing and compelling." - Newark Star-Ledger

"It has epic heroes in Marc Singer as a rebelling TV cameraman and Faye Grant as the leader of the Los Angeles underground…It has swell heavies in Andrew Prine and Jane Badler…And it is thoughtful enough to involve viewers on more than one level." -Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times


"…Highly impressive, an enormously engrossing experience. An unusually ambitious and compelling TV venture." - Los Angeles Herald Examiner

" 'V' is a brilliant piece of television…" - St. Louis Post Dispatch

About the Author
KENNETH JOHNSON is more than an author; he has written, directed and produced dozens of movies, television shows and mini-series including titles such as The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, and Alien Nation. In 1984, his television mini-series V hit the airwaves. It was hugely successful; it was the highest rated show on NBC for two and a half years and led to the creation of a regularly scheduled television show. Johnson has been nominated for both the Writers Guild and the Edgar Awards.

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Is the enemy of our enemy our friend... or foe?
By Dave C.
Twenty years ago, they arrived in 50 gigantic motherships offering their peace and universal friendship to Earth. They said they had come because their world was dying and desperately needed our help to manufacture chemicals found on our world in return for sharing their technology, cures for diseases and all the fruits of their knowledge. Skeptical of the Visitors intentions, a collective coalition of scientists became the unwitting scapegoats of a conspiracy against the Visitors and soon a state of martial law was imposed. A small but growing band of underground freedom fighters had organized into the Resistance led in Los Angeles by Dr. Juliette Parrish. News cameraman Mike Donovan had infiltrated the motherships to discover their clandestine truth and with the help of Visitor Fifth Columnist Martin who revealed the Visitors' true horrific intentions that they had come to rape our planet of its most precious resource - water - and to harvest human beings for food. The Resistance struck back and won a small but decisive victory against the Visitors and sent out a distress signal deep into space directed towards their homeworld near Sirius in hopes of it reaching one of the Visitors' adversaries who might answer the beacon and come to help them stave off the invasion.

Twenty years later, that call has been answered. The world under Visitor control is at its most critical point. Fifty percent of the water in the Earth's oceans have been depleted leaving behind a vast barren salt bed along the floor of the Pacific basin. The Golden Gate bridge now suspends atop two large peaks above the once aqueous San Francisco Bay. An entire generation has grown up under Visitor occupation and has bought into the lies and propaganda with unquestioning obedience to The Visitor Way and the apathetic human race have become complacent and submissive through the coercion of the Teammates - those humans that serve the Visitor Youth Corps and the Players - the corrupt collaborators who have betrayed their own kind to satisfy their own personal ambitions. The operation that Martin had said would take nearly a generation to complete was accelerating rapidly now with little opposition after the Resistance had been decimated by Commandant Diana's Great Purge in 1999 and with only a few years left until the Earth would become a barren, desolate planet devoid of all life.

Enter the Zedti - a humanoid race evolved from an insectoidial alien species who respond to the signal at our most desperate hour by sending three advance "emissaries" to make contact with the Resistance in the form of a pair of strangely humanoid females named Kayta and Bryke and a humanoid male named Ayden who are prepared to launch a counter-invasion force waiting in the wings to strike against their old enemies the Visitors whom they had defeated once before and rescue us from their oppression. But are their intentions benevolent, or do they have their own more diabolical plans for us and are we simply trading one dictatorship for an equal or even greater oppressor?

Kenneth Johnson's narrative is engaging and entertaining and manages to deftly interleave socio-political themes relevant to present day issues of counter-terrorism and political apathy as relevant as his brilliant allegory of neo-fascist takeover akin to the Nazi Holocaust that he employed in creating his V - The Original TV Miniseries. However, as a lifelong V fan, the biggest challenges I had to come to terms with while reading Kenny's book, is ignoring the problem of conflicting continuity between his original mini-series and the events of V - The Final Battle and V - The Complete Series of which he had no involvement with, and the fans are asked to simply accept the fact that those events had never even existed. Even more, the fates of several key characters established in Kenny's original story like Elias, who was killed off in the Series, and Robin Maxwell, who was impregnated by the Visitor Youth Leader Brian and gave birth to the half-breed Elizabeth, are overlooked or simply disregarded. In Kenny's mind, all of that never happened and many may welcome the idea that Elizabeth, the Star Child, doesn't save the human race with her hokey magical alien superpowers, the Visitors weren't defeated by the Red Dust, Robert Maxwell wasn't killed trying to help the Resistance commandeer the mothership, and Martin didn't die and come back as his zygote twin brother Philip who just happened to wear an identical human-looking mask. On the other hand we unfortunately never meet the stone-cold mercenary Ham Tyler nor his associate Chris Farber who joined up with the Resistance or other memorable characters indigenous to the series like Kyle Bates.

By disregarding the continuity of V: The Final Battle and V: The Series, there is, for better (*cough* Star Child) and for worse (*cough* Ham Tyler) gaps of unexplained and contradictory continuity between the Original and The Second Generation. Willy's true reptilian nature wasn't revealed to Harmony until V: The Final Battle when the Resistance captured and exposed him in front of a disbelieving Harmy and forced him to confess the truth to her. Complicating things even more, Harmony was killed during the Final Battle. Disregarding those events, the reader must make the supposition that Willy inevitably revealed the truth to her somehow and irregardless of which maintained her indiscriminate feelings toward him and they married and had a half-breed son named Ted and the reader is forced to accept the circumstances of altered continuity twenty years later as-is. With the introduction of the half-breed culture of Dregs at times it felt more like I was reading a page from Kenny's other series Alien Nation, not V.

As much as I would love to see a Second Generation of V revived, I don't think, with all due respect to Kenny, that this story, in its current form, should be used as the basis of a new mini-series because of the problems inherent with ignoring the continuity which old-school V fans might find jarring and confusing. Perhaps this is why initial plans for a new mini-series announced a few years ago by NBC have remained on indefinite hold and Warner Bros. felt like they could still profit from publishing Kenny's book while surreptitiously gauging fan interest in a possible revival or perhaps have their own agenda for a "re-imagining" of V ala "Battlestar Galactica" which I think would be a huge mistake because it would be a betrayal to a generation of loyal fans who, like myself, grew up in the 80's and grew attached to those characters and the actors who portrayed them. Still, I'll take Kenny's version of V the Second Generation over an outright remake or "re-imagining" any day and I'm all for getting behind a revival of V that would reunite original cast members Mark Singer, Faye Grant, Jane Badler, Michael Ironside, Robert Englund, Blair Tefkin, et al, but if and only if it's my generation of V.

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I read the previous reviews before I purchased the book, and I was well prepared. I accepted that the writer chose to deny the existence of V: The Final Battle and the Series which allowed me to approach the book with an open mind. All in all I'm glad I bought the book as it was an enjoyable read. I also agree with many of the gripes of other reviewers.

It's dreadfully obvious that the book was written AFTER a screenplay. I'd even go so far as to say it was hastily put together. I imagine the writer was not able to devote as much time and talent to its writing and was pressured by a deadline. Johnson does provide "sufficient" depth so that anyone reading it who hasn't seen the previous telecasts isn't left in the dark. I was also able to ignore the constant "jumping" from one seen to the next. Even tho most of the time there was no warning and I usually had to reread entire pages to see where it jumped. Occasionally some "jumps" are obvious, as the writer bolds the first sentence.

I'd have to say that the most annoying aspect in the book is it's lack of time. As others have written slightly about it, I feel they didn't describe it enough. There is NO mention of time except for a few instances in which the writer tells you if the sun is shining or stars are twinkling. I've had to reread several pages at a time to get a feel for when the "day" ended, and the "night" began. You'll find yourself imagining one or the other, until the writer tells u at the END of the scene. It's very easy to get lost in the time line, and very frustrating when you have to go back and reread sections at a time.

While the writer provides sufficient depth in some areas, it's horridly lacking in others. Reviewers before me have pointed out that the story ignores various prominent characters from the first series. I've come to the conclusion that once the movie is released, the confusion will evaporate. The book describes a memorial to people lost during the "great purge" as described in the book. Tho the writer only indicates to 2 people on the memorial, I'm assuming that when the movie is shown, we'll see the faces of the missing characters.

On the positive side I'm pleased at how easy the book is to read. The language and vernacular used is as easy to understand as a Harry Potter book. You may however want to censure the book from younger readers, as it does have strong sexual depictions. Speaking of, I was pleasantly surprised at the inclusion of gay characters in the novel. Johnson writes the gay characters as if they are "simply" gay, and pays no special attention to them. He does however, give them equal inclusion in the story line. Johnson plays this off very well and I thank him for not playing into other stereotypes.

Each of the characters are believable and engaging, this is another great aspect that many other authors too often miss. While I agree with others that parts of the story line are predictable, I also assert that every story has a certain predictability. The great thing is that this book is very suspenseful, and a majority of it does not unfold as you may suspect.

I found the ending to the story to be extremely satisfying, however there are some "holes". I also enjoy the that even tho there is a conclusion, it's also a cliff hanger. I have no doubt that if this book and movie is successful, johnson will continue the story line as there is ample room to do so. All in all I'm glad I bought the book and enjoyed reading it. I do have to remove a star as it's not perfect, tho I imagine that subsequent editions will fix the "jumping without notice" problem.

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