The Florida Project

V #5

by Tim Sullivan

A secret Visitor research station in the Florida Everglades conducts genetic experiments to create Visitor/human hybrids.

Set during the unrecorded year between the end of "The Final Battle" and "Liberation Day".

Note: This novel was written before the writer's guide was available, and so contradicts the TV series on some points.

Genres: Science Fiction, Media Tie In, Fiction, Novels

179 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1985

About the author

Timothy Robert Sullivan was an American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer.
Many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted. His 1981 short story "Zeke," a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth, has been translated into German and was a finalist for the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. "Under Glass" (2011), a well-reviewed semi-autobiographical short story with occult hints, has been translated into Chinese and is the basis for a screenplay by director/actor Ron Ford. "Yeshua's Dog" (2013) was also translated into Chinese.

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

BRILLIANT BOOK!!!!! FIVE STAR!!!!!! This is a great addition for anybody that as got the V series on DVD. This book ties in with the original storyline from the 1980’s (correct me is I am wrong, I was told by my parents that the original V series was from the 1980s not the 1970). When I pick this book up from a local market stall in Swansea, the owner told me that it was not that good. I totally disagree, I found the book very interesting, adding a storyline to V series that you do not see in the TV series, although the character Donovan does show in the latter chapters of the book, arriving with weapons on a shuttle craft from LA, all the way to the Evalades in Florida. Where some of the visitors had built a base and remained there upon earth, long after the mass majority of the visitors had been forced from earth due to the red dust. There is the usual group of hero’s, a couple of FBI men, one local sheriff that gets killed by the hald man/half reptilian creature in an areana, that sounds much like the old gladiator areana from the Roman era and a local tribe of Indians, there are reluctant to help at first but join the resistance fighters after a big debate. The storyline is based upon scientists performing experiments in order to develop/create a cross breed between visitor and human, the prototype finally get killed by the main character in the book, a Miami Dolphins American footballer who goes into the swamp in order to find his girlfriend. I really enjoyed the story, it brough new characters into the V story line, it brough in new technology like the flying disk that the visitors used for moving around the swamp (can’t remember them in the TV series, but it is a couple of years since I watched the series). The humans believed that the visitors had left earth for good due to the rest dust that the humans created, but deception is the name of the game in this book, as the visitors are trying to find and antidote to the rest dust, or are they? The story follows the path of created a new creature which as been created as a weapon for the Visitors to destroy the humans with. Each chapter length in the book is short meaning that it is very easy reading and encourages you to read yet another chapter. Excellent written, I see that there are allot more paperback novels from this series, will do my upmost to find them and read them. Many of friends at University are V fans, and I am sure many of them will give reviews about this book soon upon this internet site or another, once I have passed the book to them.

[Grace · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was so terrible that I actually enjoyed reading it, like the times I want to watch the original Flash Gordon movie.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than some of the others. Ending was kind of cliche

[Kerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another week of traveling, another round of V books. Pursuit of Diana follows on from the end of the second miniseries, but seems like a bridge between that and the series. Chicago Conversion and Florida Project take place with mostly new casts, but Florida Project is stronger because it uses guest stars from L.A. and doesn't have to spend time introducing them.

[Rob Damon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a thing for the V books in the 80's. This one was especially gruesome with the half lizard half crocodile things being used as arena type combat weapons.

I loved the whole everglades setting too, it added an exotic dimension to the story.

[Primadea · Rating 3 out of 5]

nah klo yg ini gue dikasih sama tante waktu 2005 kemarin sekeluarga ke FL , covernya sih serem tapi isinya tidak se-mengerikan yg dibayangkan .

[Stasia Bruhn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even though they are parts involving Ham and Chris it still wasn't enough to save this book. This has to be one of the weakest in this series!!

[Troy Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent exciting tale. Sullivan has a writing style that was a pleasure to read, quick; precise and to the point, keeps the pages turning. Definitely my favorite book in the series so far.

[Michelle F]

My older siblings watched a great deal of sci-fi at a time when my vote for cartoons didn’t count for much, and so I ended up a default but devoted fan of most late 70’s and mid 80’s Space-related series. V was one of my favourites.

One of my sisters fan-girled hardcore for a short time, and somehow acquired the Florida Project. The cover -terrified!- me, in the sort of way that makes you go back and sneak looks at it once or twice a week for years! I know I eventually inherited it, or absconded with it, and I know I read it. But what I remember most about the book is all the stories I made up around my dreadful fascination with that damn cover. Those were pants-wetting, 5-star stories, those were.

But the actual book itself? I can’t remember a thing. Is it odd that it’s still one of my favourites, despite that?