Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)

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. Zoë Boutin-perry Travels To The Fledgling Colony World Of Roanoke With Her Adoptive Parents, John Perry And Jane Sagan, Who Have Accepted Positions As Administrators. When Her Biological Father Develops The Technology To Give The Obin Consciousness And Self-awareness, She Suddenly Becomes The Center Of A Critical But Endangered Treaty Between The Obin And The Colonial Union. John Scalzi. A Tom Doherty Associates Book. An Old Man's War Novel--jacket.