Zoe's tale
Scalzi, John, 1969-2025
Book
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 an 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.
Main title:
Zoe's tale / John Scalzi.
Author:
Scalzi, John, 1969-, author
Work:
Edition:
First trade paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Tor, 2025.©2008.
Collation:
x, 323 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Old man's war ; 4.
Notes:
Originally published: 2008.
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9781250359520 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2419378