{"id":5005,"date":"2014-01-26T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2014-01-26T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T21:37:54","slug":"zoes-tale-john-scalzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/01\/26\/zoes-tale-john-scalzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe’s Tale — John Scalzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nZoe’s Tale
\nJohn Scalzi
\n406 pages
\npublished in 2008
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\nJohn Scalzi’s Old Man’s War<\/a><\/cite> was popular enough to spawn four sequels so far, of which Zoe’s Tale<\/cite> is the third. Military science fiction set in a Heinleinian dog eat dog universe, with hundred of alien races competing for new colonies and humanity only a middling power, the first three novels in the series followed new recruit John Perry and Special Forces specialist Jane Sagan through increasingly high stakes adventures, in the process learning that the Colonial Defence Forces they’re fighting for might not be entirely trustworthy. Things came to a head in the third novel, The Last Colony<\/cite> in which John and Jane, as leaders of the latest colony founded by the CDF had to fight off the Conclave, a four hundred members strong alien alliance as well as the CDF’s own plans to turn the colonists into martyrs. Amongst those colonists? Their own, adopted, daughter Zo\u00eb.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs you may have guessed from the title, Zoe’s Tale<\/cite> retells and extends the story of The Last Colony<\/cite> from Zo\u00eb’s point of view. On its own it’s therefore slightly less than a whole novel and can only be properly understood if you’ve read the previous novel. Things happen for reasons that are only partially explained, with major plot developments happening off screen, “as you know bobbed” later; at the same time Zoe’s Tale<\/cite> was partially written to explain some of the plot holes from The Last Colony<\/cite>. For me, it had been more than two years since I’d read it, so some of its plot was a bit hazy while reading this; not entirely dissimilar to Zo\u00eb’s experiences.\n<\/p>\n

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