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The Quiet Invasion
by
Sarah Zettel
Venus, second planet from the Sun, is a lonely sphere of lethal heat, deadly pressure, and poisonous winds. Yet mankind still explores it for signs of life. When an abandoned alien outpost is discovered on Venusian soil, Dr. Veronica Hatch is sent to investigate. What she discovers is extraordinary -- an alien race has escaped its dying and distant world to colonize Venus,...more
Paperback, 496 pages
Published
March 1st 2001
by Aspect
(first published 2000)
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Sarah Zettel is brilliant at envisioning and describing alien races and she is in top form here. The aliens, their culture and their environment is interesting, believable and well-described. I felt immersed in their world. But as with all things Zettel, brilliance mixes with drivel. The purpose of thing that the whole plot is based on in the beginning is revealed at the end and it makes no sense. It's just dumb. Plus, from the beginning you know that the alien's cities are dying from some disea...more
4 stars
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Due to the acquisition of GoodReads by Amazon on March 28, 2013 and my existing and continuing boycott of all things Amazon, the review I wrote after reading this book now resides, safe and secure, at my blog. You can read it by following this link: http://bit.ly/18qqH4Y
Mar 08, 2009
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This is one of those rare books where I'm not sure if I failed it as a reader or if the author failed me as a story teller. For me the problem was with the over abundance of characters and the way they more or less fell in as the plot went on. Would I have been less confused if I'd read it in one sitting or, say in three consecutive days or so? I don't know.
One thing I know for sure is that the ending rushed everything in the last chapters. This is where something was definitively lacking in Zet...more
One thing I know for sure is that the ending rushed everything in the last chapters. This is where something was definitively lacking in Zet...more
Another excellent novel, although parts of the background is perhaps too Fantasy-like for my taste. The aliens are complex, alien, yet understandable.
This was the third SF novel by Sarah Zettel that I have read. It was an engrossing read with very interesting human and alien characters and a mostly believable story. The ending was bit weak but realistic. Real-world endings rarely answer all our questions or ties up every loose thread. In this way, Zettel's SF reminds me of that by Urusla LeGuin, one of my favorite SF authors. I found "The Quiet Invasion" a more enjoyable read than the Zettel's "Playing God" but less satisfying than her "Fool'...more
Interesting story of human exploration of Venus
3.5 -- good, but with a downer ending.
Excellent. Best first contact story I've read since Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. Well conceived and subtle.
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Sarah A. Zettel (born December 14, 1966) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
Her debut novel, Reclamation, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her second release, Fool’s War, was a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, and the American Library Association named Playing God one of the Best Books for Young Adults of 1999. Her novel Bitter Angels won the Philip K. Dick Award for best...more
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Her debut novel, Reclamation, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Her second release, Fool’s War, was a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, and the American Library Association named Playing God one of the Best Books for Young Adults of 1999. Her novel Bitter Angels won the Philip K. Dick Award for best...more
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