Zoe's Tale

Military Science Fiction Adventure

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

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

(P)2026 Macmillan Audio (US)

Critic reviews

John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today

Gripping and surpassingly original. It's Starship Troopers without the lectures . . . It's funny, it's sad, and it's true

A fast-paced political thriller laced with observant characterization, great dialogue, and some genuinely original science

Clever dialogue, fast-paced story and strong characters

Top-notch. His combat scenes are blood roiling

Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced

Astonishingly proficient

Scalzi's prose harkens back to the Golden Age of science fiction while still remaining fresh and vibrant