Zoe's Tale: An Old Man's War Novel

John Scalzi

Aug 2008 · Old Man's War Book 4 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Read this or The Last Colony, not both. They cover the same plot from two different perspectives. I like The Last Colony and expected more from this book. About a chapter or two into this one and I realized it is just a cash grab. A book from Scalzi used to be an automatic buy for me, but now I'll read the reviews first.

it was good enough. it feels like the same story and Last Colony. which isnt really that bad, but what really drove me crazy is the woman that read the book would read most of the names differently him the guy that read the Last Colony.

About the author

John Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo Award. His other books include The Ghost Brigades, The Android's Dream and The Last Colony. He has won the Hugo Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for science-fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. His weblog, Whatever, is one of the most widely-read web sites in modern SF. Born and raised in California, Scalzi studied at the University of Chicago. He lives in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.