Zoe's Tale
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Zoe’s Tale” retells “The Last Colony” through a teenage narrator, and her quick, witty voice is its best asset. Scalzi lets himself be sentimental here, and a couple of chapters are openly moving. Because it retells a story already told, readers who remember the previous book will meet a good deal of it again, and some find that too much repetition.
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About the book
Zoe's Tale is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi. It is the fourth full-length book in the Old Man's War universe. Zoe's Tale is a parallel retelling of Scalzi's third Old Man's War novel, The Last Colony, written as a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of Zoë Boutin Perry. It follows up on several plot points that were underrepresented in the original novel.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 507 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 40 | 8% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 10 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 457 | 90% |
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How long is Zoe's Tale?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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