Description

One day, suddenly and without explanation, the moon turns into a ball of cheese.
For some, it’s an opportunity. For others, it’s time to question their life choices. How can the world stay the same in the face of such absurdity and uncertainty?

Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and patients at the end of their lives – over the length of a lunar cycle, each gets their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to hope, to laugh and to grieve. All in a story that goes all the places you’d expect, and to many others you could never anticipate. For the people of the earth, this could be the end – or the beginning of a whole new world.

From the Hugo and Locus Award-winning author John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye is an entirely serious take on an entirely unserious subject.

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Praise for When the Moon Hits Your Eye:

‘Very funny and occasionally moving, this is a welcome bit of comic relief’ – The Guardian

‘Funny, emotional, thought-provoking and scary’ – SFX Magazine

Publisher Review

A ridiculous concept imbued with gravity, charm, humor, plausible cynicism, and pathos – and perhaps the merest touch of spite — Kirkus, starred review Chock-full of Scalzi’s trademark humor, and readers who love humorous science fiction in general and this author in particular are going to be rolling on the floor laughing out loud while reading * Library Journal * Scalzi’s ability to balance scathing satire with heartfelt optimism shines * Publishers Weekly * A light-hearted story with a likeable fish-out-of-water protagonist and a lot of very smart cats. There’s also a dolphin labor dispute, some truly awful techbros, and a volcano island lair . . . Who could resist? — Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Black Sun on Starter Villain Laugh-out-loud funny, intricately plotted and big-hearted enough to touch even the grumpiest cynic, Starter Villain establishes Scalzi as SF’s leading humourist — SFX on Starter Villain Prepare to be delighted and surprised — The Daily Mail on Starter Villain Satire aplenty . . . Charlie has to handle the lethal machinations of rival villains and also a pod of talking dolphins with militant trade union tendencies in a novel that gleefully skewers the vanity and inanity of a certain kind of plutocrat — The Financial Times on Starter Villain Subverts classic supervillain tropes with equal measures of tongue-in-cheek humor and common sense . . . The result is a breezy and highly entertaining genre send-up — Publishers Weekly on Starter Villain Fun, short and tightly plotted — New Scientist on Starter Villain