Book description
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.
JOHN SCALZI won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,
and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for the Hugo Award.
His other novels include The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, and The
Android's Dream. He lives in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.
