Quozl has a fairly interesting premise: A spacefaring race of horny alien rabbits travel through space on vast multi-generational colony ships until they can reach their intended destination. In both Quozl and especially the damned trilogy this is very true. The biggest problem with his books that I have is that he seems to be good at conceiving of interesting story concepts, but then completely fails to actually capitalize on any them.

I feel this is enough to get an idea of what his writing looks like. Admittedly I've only read Quozl and the Damned Trilogy and not his other works, but that's still four books. I'm not sure if I like or dislike his work despite having already read 4 books from him, and was curious what your thoughts are on his work.īesides Alien I haven't read/seen anything from this dude that I felt was particuallary remarkable, yet I still found myself drawn to some of his books simply because I found the premise of the books facinating. The revolt of the household appliances fizzles out, the retirees are tiresome and the alien Drex, with four eyes, tentacles and fangs, is singularly unoriginal.This is the guy who wrote alien, almost wrote Empire, and plenty of other fiction works. Foster ( Glory Lane ) has created some promising comic opportunities here but fails to take advantage of them.

The Earth, for years a backwater in the galaxy, a combination theme park and retirement planet, is invaded by secret agents posing as tourists. Soon the immense ship is airborne, carrying five retirees and readying itself for combat against an alien enemy.

Eventually they succeed, as a self-described ``kitchen serve-and-retrieve doohickey'' belonging to a retirement community on Earth stumbles upon an alien warship buried for one million years. In short order, farm equipment, drink dispensers and gardening tools across the galaxy are talking back to their human masters and laying aside their programmed duties in order to search for signs of higher, non-human intelligence. When Tunbrew Wah-chang leaves his cheese sandwich in the bowels of the O-daiko, the plant responsible for manufacturing components of machines endowed with artificial intelligence, mechanical mayhem results.

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