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  <title><![CDATA[Zoe's Tale]]></title>
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  <default-description>How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did &amp;#8212; how I did what I had to do &amp;#8212; 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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Scalzi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Scalzi returns to his popular &quot;Old Man's War&quot; universe with a parallel novel to the last entry, told from the perspective of Zoe Boutin Perry.  Covering the same time frame as the previous entry, &quot;The Last Colony,&quot; &quot;Zoe's Tale&quot; examines the ins and outs of the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32158056">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Acknowledgements, John Scalzi admitted he wanted to &quot;step away from&quot; &quot;The Old Man's War&quot; series after <em>The Last Colony</em>. He should have. <em>Zoe's Tale,/i&gt; is as illogical and emotional as its protagonist . . . but she's a teen.<br/><br/>Some of the illogic was driven by plot c...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43167894">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scalzi writes like Heinlein in his prime. I love courageous authors who are willing to step out of their comfort zone and write from a different perspective. Told from the viewpoint of a teenage girl, (which Scalzi definitely is not) this adventurous tale takes Zoe who has had a very event filled li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35101915">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This inter-galactic science fiction about a teenage girl who is destined to save her planetary colony from certain destruction has a promising start. But I ultimately lost interest due to the fact that every bit of information was conveyed through dialogue, including scenes that would have been bett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32203251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book comes--somewhat disappointingly--as a retelling of Scalzi's The Lost Colony.  I think he does a good job channeling a teenage girl as the main character (thankfully he has a teenage daughter himself to &quot;educate&quot; his perspective).  The book on it's own is pretty decent and it very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36387529">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps my least favorite Scalzi so far.  An adult male author attempting a teenage female narrator is tackling a pretty difficult task, and Scalzi deserves some credit for making an honest attempt.  But Zoe comes across as just too perfect, even compared to her three friends, only one of whom acts ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49855132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sort of book you stay up all night reading more because it is so much fun to read than because you have to know what happens next. In fact, if you follow the series, this isn't even a new story, but one told from a different character's perspective. So if you've read 'The Last Colony' yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38949354">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After saying that he was done with the Old Man universe Scalzi returned pretty quickly with a parallel time story to The Lost Colony. This tells the story from Zoe's perspective. She was a well formed yet tertiary character in the previous books (Ghost Brigades and Lost Colony) so it was nice feelin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56398346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book re-tells the story in Scalzi's Last Colony, and this time from the perspective of his 15 year old adopted daughter Zoe Boutain Perry.<br/><br/>The story fills the gaps in the Last Colony, particularly what happened in the forest with the werewolves, and what happened when Zoe went to vis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54726352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First impressions:  This DEFINITELY reads like a YA book, even though it was shelved in the adult section of my local library.  Zoe is an annoying little wench.  Everyone just has the perfect retort for every comment.  The weird part about it being a YA book is that it's not a stand-alone novel; if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42513481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's weird how we now discover authors because we enjoy their blogs and not the other way around.<br/><br/>Been meaning to read something of Scalzi's for awhile and I was not disappointed.<br/><br/>Zoe's Tale was sci fi with emotional impact told from the perspective of a cool girl protagonist. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42167185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zoe's Tale is a standalone book, but in order to understand its magnitude, one has to read the rest of the very enjoyable series to which it belongs. The story takes place in the kind of Universe where humanity has to compete in a bloody struggle to maintain its colonial rule. Zoe becomes a central ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53479075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of <em>The Last Colony</em> told from the POV of Zoe Boutin-Perry, the daughter of Roanoke colony leaders John and Jane Perry. If you haven't read <em>TLC</em> I would advise you to read it before reading this book. The story makes sense even without prior reading, though you will find some of the k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54903296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is easy-reading science fiction that feels light but also has moments of substance.  The story attends more to the personal than to the technological.  I think of it as sort of in the Ender's Game vein (the fate of a race hangs on a child) with a teenage girl protagonist.  The main characters f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68979489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a real soft spot for young-adult science fiction. The myriad vampires and wizards are quite fun, but I'm always happy to find someone writing solid, entertaining sci-fi aimed at the under 20 set.<br/><br/>The comparison of Scalzi to Heinlein may have been overdone, but it still holds up. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45233360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is going to stay on the &quot;to read list&quot; for a while. Until the Kindle price comes way down ($14.99 is ridiculous), and even then it may languish. I just read the Kindles sample chapters and, well, while not painful, it wasn't very good. Scalzi does a poor job of capturing the voice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49558910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My main problem with Zoe's Tale is that there is no need for it to exist. I loved the previous Old Man's War novels, but up until the last 50 pages or so nothing that happens in this book is really worth your while if you've read The Last Colony.<br/><br/>The problem with saying that is that Scalz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68773081">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A parallel novel to THE LAST COLONY, in which a colony led by &quot;Old Man's War&quot; series hero John Perry finds itself in unplanned territory with alien enemies hunting for it. The presence of Zoe, John's adopted daughter, has riveted the attention of even more aliens to the situation. It's goi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56394909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciated Zoe's teen voice and found the narrative engaging for the first 2/3 of the book but it lagged for me at the end and it became much harder to believe all of what this teen girl was able to accomplish in her negotiations with various alien races.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zoe is the type of young, snarky little teenager that I like to read about. Her family is a little strange. Her real parents are dead. But her adopted parents are the founding fathers of a new colony, and the settlers arrive on their planet in a fury of activity. But the Colonial Union has set them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73026302">more...</a>]]></body>
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