The Quiet Invasion (Paperback)

One of the most acclaimed new writers in science fiction, Sarah Zettel won the Locus Award for Best First Novel with Reclamation, and her Fool's War was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Now she presents a gripping new novel in which high ideals and good intentions may cause the death of three worlds...EARTH'S SISTER

Venus is an uninhabitable sphere of lethal heat, deadly pressures, and poison winds, yet humans explore it hoping to find miracles. To the alien beings called the People, who must escape their own distant, dying homeworld, Venus is a miracle...for it is the only other planet in the galaxy that can sustain the avian race.

But when the refugees are discovered on Earth's sister world, they are perceived as an invading alien horde intent on overrunning the solar system. Now, suddenly, the world named for the goddess of love is about to become ground zero for an interstellar war...