They love graphic depictions of violence, like historical battles where warlords are gutting babies. One important thing about Quozl society is being 'open' in areas where humans are 'repressed'. Taking this into account, Quozl rulers decided the colony to stay a small underground 'Burrow' deep in a national park somewhere in the wilderness of North America. the author tries to keep it secret until the end, but it’s rather predictable.

The second was actually meeting one specimen and finding how good primitive human guns are and how hard it is to kill a rampaging human. Their first shock was discovering another sentient species. Earth was going to be their sixth colony. The eponymous aliens are human-sized marsupial rabbits that slowly colonize the galaxy traveling in Generation Ships. Once you meet the Quozl, you will never forget them.A standalone SF novel by Alan Dean Foster. One of the most admired and prolific authors in the science fiction arena, Alan Dean Foster will delight readers who hunger for something different with this funny, thoughtful, and wildly inventive novel of first contact and coexistence. But a secret like the Quozl can be concealed for only so long, especially when their numbers start to increase and certain rebellious members of the long-eared society decide the time is ripe to claim their place in a world they believe is rightfully theirs. In the midst of the brutal and helpfully distracting global conflict the Shirazians call World War II, the colony ship lands undetected, and the space rabbits immediately go into hiding. What they don't realize is that this world they call Shiraz is already inhabited by a species of violent sentient creatures known as humans.īut there's no going back now.

A gentle race of extraterrestrial rabbits, they have a propensity for reproduction that has left their home planet, Quozlene, dangerously overpopulated, and in their search for greener and less-crowded pastures, they have discovered the perfect place to start over: the third planet away from a healthy, warming sun. The Quozl just need somewhere to call home. Rabbitlike aliens from outer space colonize Earth during humankind's Second World War in a delightfully funny and thought-provoking science fiction adventure