Zoe's Tale
Feb 2011 · The Old Man’s War series Book 4 · Pan Macmillan
4.5star
39 reviews
Ebook
336
Pages
About this ebook
Hard-core, fast paced science fiction, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is the fourth in The Old Man's War series.
She won't go down without a fight.
It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoë Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter of two former super-soldiers. She's also a holy icon to a race of alien warriors who track her every move. So she's used to the quirks of being a human in space.
However, this time something's different. Betrayed by the authorities, Zoë – along with her parents and fellow colonists - finds herself stranded on a deadly pioneer planet. The Colonial Union has also set them up as a target for hostile alien action. Zoë must become a player (and a pawn) in an interstellar battle, which will determine the fate of humanity.
Her father's side of this story was told in The Last Colony, but Zoe's Tale reveals a whole new dimension.
It's a story you may think you know, but you don't really know it at all.
Continue the gripping space war series with The Human Division.
'John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today' – Joe Hill, author of The Fireman
She won't go down without a fight.
It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoë Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter of two former super-soldiers. She's also a holy icon to a race of alien warriors who track her every move. So she's used to the quirks of being a human in space.
However, this time something's different. Betrayed by the authorities, Zoë – along with her parents and fellow colonists - finds herself stranded on a deadly pioneer planet. The Colonial Union has also set them up as a target for hostile alien action. Zoë must become a player (and a pawn) in an interstellar battle, which will determine the fate of humanity.
Her father's side of this story was told in The Last Colony, but Zoe's Tale reveals a whole new dimension.
It's a story you may think you know, but you don't really know it at all.
Continue the gripping space war series with The Human Division.
'John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today' – Joe Hill, author of The Fireman
Ratings and reviews
4.5
39 reviews
Joe Heffernan
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September 20, 2023
I enjoyed the other books in this series! This one didn't disappoint. I'm not sure how much of my enjoyment came from the same events as seen from another prospective or a good yarn, told well.
Alexander Fanshawe
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April 26, 2019
Smart overlap with 1st 2 stories
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About the author
John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His debut Old Man's War won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Lock In, and also Redshirts, which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
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