Zoe's Tale

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.

Old Man''s War Series
#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
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