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Zoe's Tale

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Copyright © 2008 by John Scalzi
2008
Science Fiction
2012
1 time
See 7
Prologue
Part I
Chapters 1-11
Part II
Chapters 12-19
Part III
Chapters 20-25
Book Cover
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For Karen Meisner and Anne KG Murphy
And most especially for Athena.
I lifted up my dad’s PDA and counted off the seconds with the two thousand other people in the room.
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 11-Jul-2024

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 21-Dec-2012
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
21-Dec-2012
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
420
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   11 Oct 2012 - 23 Oct 2012
Internal ID:
43703
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-429-93107-8
ISBN-13:
978-1-429-93107-6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Harris  - Cover Artist
From amazon.com:

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.
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Notes and Comments:
First Edition: 2008
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21-Dec-2012
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book

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Awards

2009Locus MagazineBest YA Novel Nominee
2009World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Nominee
2010Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaAndre Norton Award Nominee
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