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.

约翰•斯卡尔齐（John Scalzi）

美国当红科幻作家，美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前主席。3次获得雨果奖，9次入围。2005年，他以《老人的战争》成名，获得2006年约翰•W.坎贝尔奖优秀新人奖。2013年，他凭借《星际迷航：红衫》斩获雨果奖、轨迹奖两项大奖，几乎包揽了当年所有科幻小说重要奖项。

《佐伊的战争》是斯卡尔齐“老人的战争”系列中继《老人的战争》《幽灵舰队》《消失的殖民星球》之后的第四部作品。该系列作品均为21世纪美国重磅科幻小说，多次获得各类大奖。