Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Dec 07, 2008 H. R. rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, authors_john_scalzi, read-2009

Henrietta Potter in Space. Horatia Hornblower. Dime adventure novels from a hundred years ago, repolished. Sci-Fi comfort food. Likable characters that provide escape without stress. The prose is lucid, the underlying themes are engaging without being threatening. Scalzi uses the large toolkit of past creations in the genre, and to his credit makes a novel that is fun to read.

If you liked Zoe...try The Forever War or Rite of Passage. Panshin won either a nebula or hugo almost 40 years ago for R ...more

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Sep 20, 2008 Heath rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2008

While reading the book, I recalled bit and pieces of the story from The Last Colony while reading thru Zoe's Tale. It built on the The Last Colony story filling the blanks from a different point of view and only touched on what happened from The Last Colony. Good story I enjoyed it. ...more

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Oct 12, 2016 Keith rated it did not like it

Shelves: science-fiction, worst

I am very confused why anyone would give this book a higher rating than 2 stars. This is the exact same book as the Last Colony, except told from the perspective of Zoe with a couple of extra scenes. So instead of being told from the perspective of a character that we have gotten to know and can relate to, we get the same story-line but with teenage angst and hormones added, cause that is so fun. It is like the Twilight version of the story. The book jacket says this book is a stand-alone. If th ...more

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