The Chicago Conversion - Read Jim Fulner

Paperback, 186 pages

English language

Published Nov. 4, 1985 by Pinnacle Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-523-42429-3
OCLC Number:: 11680394

In Chicago, the Visitors' grip on the Earth has been freed with the release of the Red Dust, the bacteria discovered in the digestive tract of Robin Maxwell's hybrid children, which killed the more reptilian twin. Cultured and dried, and dispersed via hot air balloons across the world by the resistance, it causes near-instant death to Visitors, but can also cause mutation, sterility and ultimately, death, to all Earth life in excessive amounts. Prior to this event, High Captain Gerald manages to finally storm the resistance, but with little success, as they were currently liberating the Chicago Art Museum, the Visitors' ground base. Seconds before the commander of the Chicago Mothership, Alicia, calls him back for withdrawal (after the Red Dust is deployed worldwide), he is able to distribute anti-toxin from the resistance base into his shock troopers. Though Alicia is frustrated at her subordinate, she gives him a chance …

In Chicago, the Visitors' grip on the Earth has been freed with the release of the Red Dust, the bacteria discovered in the digestive tract of Robin Maxwell's hybrid children, which killed the more reptilian twin. Cultured and dried, and dispersed via hot air balloons across the world by the resistance, it causes near-instant death to Visitors, but can also cause mutation, sterility and ultimately, death, to all Earth life in excessive amounts. Prior to this event, High Captain Gerald manages to finally storm the resistance, but with little success, as they were currently liberating the Chicago Art Museum, the Visitors' ground base. Seconds before the commander of the Chicago Mothership, Alicia, calls him back for withdrawal (after the Red Dust is deployed worldwide), he is able to distribute anti-toxin from the resistance base into his shock troopers. Though Alicia is frustrated at her subordinate, she gives him a chance to redeem himself, which Gerald jumps at, as unknowingly to Alicia, Gerald is a double agent. Her plan is to convert the resistance, and "unlock the key" to regaining Chicago.

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Jim Fulner reviewed The Chicago Conversion by Geo. W. Proctor

A TV episode set in Chicago?

3 stars

I liked it just fine. It could have been an episode of the 1984-85 TV series during whose run this was published. Unlike the T.V. series the Visitors still had their distinctive reverberating voice and we didn't see any of the L.A. resistance. While officially book 4 in the series its a stand-alone tale of the Chicago resistance, all new characters, shortly after the events of the second T.V. mini-series V: The Final Battle. It didn't have the creativity of V, The Florida Project (Book 5) but it also didn't have the continuity errors. A quick read, worth it if you've got in your library or run across it at a yard sale, probably not worth seeking out on-line unless you are a real completionist.

Subjects

Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.