Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

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Zoe's Tale

Author:	John Scalzi
Publisher:	Tor, 2008
Series:	Old Man's War: Book 4
0. The Sagan Diary 0. After the Coup 0. Questions for a Soldier 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
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Military SF Colonization Space Opera
Awards:	2009 Hugo Nominated 2009 Locus YA Nominated 2010 Norton Nominated
Lists:	Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List by David Brin
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Synopsis

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 to 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.