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Zoe's Tale [Hardcover]

John Scalzi (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Release Date: Aug 19 2008
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.

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In the touching fourth novel set in the Old Man's War universe, Scalzi revisits the events of 2007's The Last Colony from the perspective of Zoë, adopted daughter of previous protagonists Jane Sagan and John Perry. Jane and John are drafted to help found the new human colony of Roanoke, struggling against a manipulative and deceitful homeworld government, native werewolf-like creatures and a league of aliens intent on preventing all space expansion and willing to eradicate the colony if needed. Meanwhile, teenage Zoë focuses more on her poetic boyfriend, Enzo; her sarcastic best friend, Gretchen; and her bodyguards, a pair of aliens from a race called the Obin who worship and protect Zoë because of a scientific breakthrough made by her late biological father. Readers of the previous books will find this mostly a rehash, but engaging character development and Scalzi's sharp ear for dialogue will draw in new readers, particularly young adults. (Aug.)
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“The Last Colony will kick your butt across the galaxy and make you care.” — Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column, on The Last Colony
 
“Scalzi’s captivating blend of off-world adventure and political intrigue remains consistently engaging.” — Booklist on The Last Colony
 
"In Heinleinesque fashion, the book is loaded with scenes of comradeship, isolation, ruthlessness and the protocols, which govern the lives of active-duty soldiers. But this is where Scalzi, famous for his blog ‘The Whatever,’ surpasses Heinlein. Scalzi weaves in subtle discussions of humanity's growing fear of aging and our simultaneous attraction and repulsion to the Frankenstein-like creatures we are able to create." — San Antonio Express-News on The Ghost Brigades
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Riveting, Splendid Young Adult Novel from John Scalzi Jun 10 2012
By John Kwok TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Readers unfamiliar with John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" space opera science fiction novels will find much to recommend to both young and old audiences alike in "Zoe's Tale", which recounts from the perspective of seventeen year-old Zoe Boutin Perry, much of the plot of Scalzi's "The Last Colony", the third novel in his series. Those familiar with Scalzi's "Old's Man War" novels have met Zoe before in the sequels "The Ghost Brigades" and "The Last Colony", but here she emerges as a protagonist as fascinating and as compelling as her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan. In a last ditch gamble by the human Colonial Union to wage a victorious war against an vast alliance of alien worlds opposed to further human expansion into the galaxy, the Colonial Union offers as a most tempting "prize", the newly settled Roanoke colony, led by former Colonial Union soldiers John Perry and Jane Sagan. Determined to preserve the lives of her family and friends, Zoe must rely on both her steadfast convictions and newly earned knowledge of that alien alliance to find some means of ensuring not only Roanoke's survival, but ultimately, also humanity's right to colonize interstellar space. Scalzi has written a superb, vividly imagined, novel that will win the affections of both Young Adult and adult audiences of space opera science fiction, and one which emphasizes the loyalty and love that Zoe has for her parents and Roanoke friends.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great May 27 2009
By A. Smith
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I really enjoyed the previous books in this series. Zoe's Tale is pretty much the whole story told in The Last Colony with a couple of extra insights from Zoe's point of view. It is well written, but since I knew what was going to happen I didn't enjoy it as much.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Funny pulpy sci fi Dec 18 2009
By John Hellfarth
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The same sarcastic humor of the preceding Old Man's War novels, perhaps too much the same since now it is coming from an adopted teenage daughter. Gets a bit tiresome coming from two characters, father and daughter (and, groan, the daughter's best friend too). Certainly a fun read for a long flight or a warm beach. Nothing deep to say except the inherent unfairness of life. I do wonder if I would have dropped my star rating to two if I'd read it before the preceding novels. I suspect it is not a stand alone.
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