The Quozl appears to be of benevolant nature (albeight venting their ancient instincts through violent/gruesome arts and videos), and while individually they abhor violence, their leadership evaluate killing in protection of the secret colony.ĭespite the use of planned parenthood, the Quozl population is likely to exceed the human one and overhaul their culture influenced humans more than the contrary, sparkling doubt over a possible secret invasion (biologically-driven than intentional). Their fur can have different colors (usually black, gray, tan) and they enjoy flash-color suits and decorative jewels.Ī key focus of their behavior is a compulsory sexual drive (overpopulation is mitigated by contraceptives), while this was at first a stark difference with humans, later proved to be a turning point due inter-race relationships. They are shorter than humans (in the novel they are described also as lean and possibly digitigrade, different from the book cover). In the novel their general appearence is described as both cute and attractive to human eyes. Their appearance, to human eyes, is similar to anthropomorphic rabbits. Upon discovering the human race, they successfully established a secret colony into the Rocky Mountains and attempt to avoid contact. Once a bloody warring society, they evolved into a pacifist collective society emphasizing elaborate social behavior to avoid resurgence of violent instincts. Quozl experience overpopulation in their native world and send generation-ships to colonize other planets. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.The Quozl are an alien race secretly settling on Earth, featured into the homonym novel wrote by Alan Dean Foster in 1989. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.įoster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia.
His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction.
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