The Darwin Variant - Softcover

Kenneth Johnson has been a successful writer-producer-director of film and television for more than four decades. Creator of the landmark original miniseries V, he also produced The Six Million Dollar Man and created iconic Emmy-winning shows such as The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, and Alien Nation. In addition, he directed numerous TV movies as well as the feature films Short Circuit 2 and Steel. Johnson has received multiple Saturn Awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, as well as the Sci-Fi Universe Lifetime Achievement Award and the prestigious Founders Award from the Viewers for Quality Television. He has presented his unique graduate-level seminar, The Filmmaking Experience, at UCLA, USC, NYU, Loyola, the New York Film Academy, the National Film and Television School (UK), Moscow State University, and many others. The author of the recent bestseller The Man of Legends and V: The Second Generation, Kenneth and his wife, Susan, who have been married for forty-one years, live in Los Angeles with their latest two golden-retriever rescues. Visit Johnson at kennethjohnson.us and www.facebook.com/KennethJohnsonAuthor.

“Johnson channels Stephen King with this summer thriller...The Darwin Variant divides families, lovers, and colleagues working toward the same goals in a nerve-wracking race to an unexpected conclusion.” —Booklist

“When scientists calculate that a comet will impact Earth, chaos reigns, but the worst is yet to come in Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi thriller...Johnson takes the scenario of fear of collision with a rogue object from space and turns it on its head by making things worse after everything seems resolved. This approach turns the narrative into a contemporary version of the paranoid classic film Invasion of the Body Snatchers...Fans of Johnson will also see echoes of V, his television show from the 1980s...Johnson has written another engaging novel.” —Associated Press