V the Novel: A review of the original miniseries
This is about the novelization of the book that became the V miniseries back in the nineteen eighties the book is written by it's creator Ken Johnson & A.C. Crispin this copy has a two thousand eight copyright date. The novel pretty much does follow what was filmed by Mr. Johnson but like any book it does have some great differences as well.
As you can see I really do read a book any book to death that's a paperback. I used to have a couple of those Vinyl book covers that were paperback size, there like those Bible book covers with a zipper on the side. (if any ideas are needed as a gift for me for Christmas a couple of these would be very nice there available at any bookstore or bible store.) Anyway back to the differences of the novel of V from the aired version from nineteen eighty three are quite interesting indeed. One thing Kenneth Johnson did was he included all of the key people that had helped with the production of the V miniseries while he made it. He had his music composer Joe Harnell be a pilot that files Micheal Donovan around New York, or Jeri Taylor who was later part of other science fiction hits later in the eighties & early nineties, she was a writer for Ken in other series he did in the earlier eighties in the V novel she was a journalists that went to the mother ship when first offered by the Visitors themselves. Ken even put Dan Rather was a news commentator (what a surprise here, huh?) as a well a news commentator when the Visitor's ships start to arrive, in the start of the story. And yes Kenneth does include himself as a character at the end of the story in the epilogue, he happens to be Kenneth Perry an astronomer that sends out a call for help to outer space from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in San Augustin, New Mexico. (This was where it ended in the miniseries on TV but the novel end doesn't) As I found these little inserts of real people I either had a great big smile on my face, or I just laughed out loud. Another part of the novel besides the use of real people as key fictional elements, that was interesting was how some parts were totally different from the teleplay of the aired miniseries itself. Like in the beginning of the novel when Mike Donovan and his cameraman Tony are filming the fighting in the guerrilla encampment in El Salvador they meet a dark haired woman before meeting Carlos, where as in the televised version you never see a woman before the fighting. Shortly after that when a helicopter is bearing down on Donovan he recognizes Ham Tyler as the co-pilot (what's wrong here is Ham Tyler doesn't appear in V at all, he does however appear in the beginning of the second epsiode of V the final battle refer back to my blog "It's those Lizards again..." if you forgot that part? when all of a sudden the helicopter pulls away when it sees one of the Visitor mother ship land behind the cameraman. In the novel you find out where Donovan hid his videotape of the recording of what he saw on the mother ship when he snuck aboard and filmed the Visitors going ons, where in the televised miniseries you left guessing really as to the tape's location. There are more references to Star Wars in the novel than just of when the Visitors land at the plant in the miniseries as well. And the biggest change in the novel from the aired miniseries is Robin gives birth to her hybrid baby a lot sooner than in the end of V the final battle the second espiode. There are a few things as well that I haven't told you the blog reader in differences from the novel & the V miniseries but thats because I want you to find them if you ever pick up this copy of the book. I will tell you that they do leave you hanging for more when it's all over which leads into this book here: 
which I plan to start reading on the eleventh of December after work. I will also blog of this story as well when I get finished with it as well then I read a set of Star Trek DS9 books seen here 
and blog the stories contained in these books which all take place after the series of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
As you can see I really do read a book any book to death that's a paperback. I used to have a couple of those Vinyl book covers that were paperback size, there like those Bible book covers with a zipper on the side. (if any ideas are needed as a gift for me for Christmas a couple of these would be very nice there available at any bookstore or bible store.) Anyway back to the differences of the novel of V from the aired version from nineteen eighty three are quite interesting indeed. One thing Kenneth Johnson did was he included all of the key people that had helped with the production of the V miniseries while he made it. He had his music composer Joe Harnell be a pilot that files Micheal Donovan around New York, or Jeri Taylor who was later part of other science fiction hits later in the eighties & early nineties, she was a writer for Ken in other series he did in the earlier eighties in the V novel she was a journalists that went to the mother ship when first offered by the Visitors themselves. Ken even put Dan Rather was a news commentator (what a surprise here, huh?) as a well a news commentator when the Visitor's ships start to arrive, in the start of the story. And yes Kenneth does include himself as a character at the end of the story in the epilogue, he happens to be Kenneth Perry an astronomer that sends out a call for help to outer space from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in San Augustin, New Mexico. (This was where it ended in the miniseries on TV but the novel end doesn't) As I found these little inserts of real people I either had a great big smile on my face, or I just laughed out loud. Another part of the novel besides the use of real people as key fictional elements, that was interesting was how some parts were totally different from the teleplay of the aired miniseries itself. Like in the beginning of the novel when Mike Donovan and his cameraman Tony are filming the fighting in the guerrilla encampment in El Salvador they meet a dark haired woman before meeting Carlos, where as in the televised version you never see a woman before the fighting. Shortly after that when a helicopter is bearing down on Donovan he recognizes Ham Tyler as the co-pilot (what's wrong here is Ham Tyler doesn't appear in V at all, he does however appear in the beginning of the second epsiode of V the final battle refer back to my blog "It's those Lizards again..." if you forgot that part? when all of a sudden the helicopter pulls away when it sees one of the Visitor mother ship land behind the cameraman. In the novel you find out where Donovan hid his videotape of the recording of what he saw on the mother ship when he snuck aboard and filmed the Visitors going ons, where in the televised miniseries you left guessing really as to the tape's location. There are more references to Star Wars in the novel than just of when the Visitors land at the plant in the miniseries as well. And the biggest change in the novel from the aired miniseries is Robin gives birth to her hybrid baby a lot sooner than in the end of V the final battle the second espiode. There are a few things as well that I haven't told you the blog reader in differences from the novel & the V miniseries but thats because I want you to find them if you ever pick up this copy of the book. I will tell you that they do leave you hanging for more when it's all over which leads into this book here: 
which I plan to start reading on the eleventh of December after work. I will also blog of this story as well when I get finished with it as well then I read a set of Star Trek DS9 books seen here 
and blog the stories contained in these books which all take place after the series of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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