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 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* Short fiction: “After the Coup” **Other Tor Books** *The Android’s Dream* *Agent to the Stars* *Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded* *Fuzzy Nation* *Redshirts* *Lock In* *The Collapsing Empire* (forthcoming) At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.