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Zoe's Tale
Zoe's Tale
#4 of 6 in Old Man's War

Zoe's Tale

By
John Scalzi
John Scalzi
By
John Scalzi
John Scalzi
2008 • 335 pages

Ratings26

Average rating3.3

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How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old. Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes. It's a story you know. But you don't know it all. Old Man's War Series #1 Old Man’s War #2 The Ghost Brigades #3 The Last Colony #4 Zoe’s Tale #5 The Human Division #6 The End of All Things Short fiction: “After the Coup” Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Lock In The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Series

Series

6 primary books27 released books

#4 in Old Man's War

Old Man's War is a 27-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by John Scalzi.

#1
Old Man's War
#1.5
Questions for a Soldier
#2
The Ghost Brigades
#2.5
The Sagan Diary
#3
The Last Colony

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Cyn Newman

This seems to be a retelling of the events in [book:The Lost Colony] from Zoe's point of view. There are a few details that weren't told (or happened off-stage) in that book, but not enough to hold my attention. Did someone say, “Hey, Scalzi? You gotta write a Young Adult novel, man!” at some point? Blah.

December 2, 2008
Kavinay
Kavinay

A sarcastic teenage girl tells an Old Man's War. Ugh.

Scalzi does a great job capturing the voice of a teenage girl. That's great writing... but Gilmore Girls in space is not my thing.

July 3, 2016
falinter
john holst

This was a very good addition to The Last Colony. It was refreshing to see things through another perspective other than John and Janes.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has ventured into the Old Mans War universe.

June 10, 2017

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