When the Moon Hits Your Eye
{4.5/5} “There is nothing to be done about it. It just is. And we have to deal with it, or not. In this respect we are no different than the dinosaurs who looked up in the sky sixty-five million years ago and saw the meteor bearing down on them. What we might think or believe or hope is immaterial to the unfathomable reality of what its is that is above us.”
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, published in 2025
When the moon and all the samples from the moon all over Earth turn to cheese, people can hardly believe it and don’t know what to do about it. LeMae really wanted to go to the moon on a NASA mission but now she can’t. Jody’s company makes the lander NASA was going to use on the moon but when NASA postpones the mission he calls senators to change things. Dayton wrote a fun book that contained a chapter about the moon being made of cheese — now he’s very popular.
This book is about how the premise affects a wide variety of people including the president, astronauts, a minister, Saturday Night Live, a writer, and brothers who have been in a feud for 20 years.
Scalzi’s writing is sublimely humourous. The chapter where writers and directors are pitching new movies is particularly funny.
Sometimes you want to read a book where good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people — if that’s what you want, now is the time to read this delightful novel.
I’ve read all 18 of Scalzi’s novels plus one collection. I previously reviewed Miniatures.