Zoe's Tale
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John Scalzi
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.
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Author
John Scalzi
Pages
336
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2012-12-21
ISBN
1429931078 9781429931076
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi 2/5 ⭐⭐
I can't say I'm super happy with this next book in the series. It rehashes most of The Last Colony almost too closely at times. However, the ending is the meat and potatoes of what you're looking for with this one.
Starting with a hole left by The Last Colony regarding the Roanoke's original intelligent life forms, that I and apparently other readers had noticed and wrote to the author about enough for him to revisit.
Also, a major event that you're just not in the right perspective for during The Last Colony, that was really my main reason for reading this but I was thinking initially it would be the starting point to this novel. It was not and left me disappointed but I eventually got my answers. "