I have another coming out, Far-Seer . Well, for me that was it. That's when I knew I'd succeeded. Your second novel, Far-Seer , features the Quintaglios , which are basically dinosaurs, tyrannosaurs in particular. In the past, the knock against aliens in SF was that they are more like human beings than alien beings.
Human beings are incredibly violent.
And yet when we look at cultures that don't live in these overpopulated cities, they have far less innate violence. I think the reason is that humanity is in essence a carnivorous species that paradoxically doesn't kill its own food. Our food is killed by other people for us and we buy it in these pristine Styrofoam packages with cellophane wrappers. I suspect that rather than being a more savage race, you end up with beings who are more compassionate and fundamentally pacifistic because they've got that way of purging their violence. Your first novel, Golden Fleece , was a critical success, but perhaps not as financially successful as you would have liked.