New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
The moon has turned into cheese.
Now humanity has to deal with it.
For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives -- over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t.
It’s a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.
Meh.
"I have enjoyed the other books I have read by John Scalzi (Redshirts, Kaiju Preservation Society, and The Android's Dream), but this one rates a solid """"meh"""". The concept is delightfully goofy, but instead of having fun with the idea and writing a silly comedy, he treats it seriously: how would normal people react in this situation. There is some humour, but mostly the book is a dramedy. Each chapter is written from the point of view of a different character, usually unrelated to any of the other characters in the book, so it feels more like a collection of short stories rather than a novel. And the characters are mostly pretty boring. Don't bother with this book; go read Redshirts instead."
