When the Moon Hits Your Eye

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

New York Times bestseller 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.

©2025 John Scalzi (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

This time Scalzi missed the mark-

The dialogue is funny b/c the premise is funny. The premise is actually 4 stars of funny. But after a few hours of WTAF Cheese! It gets stale (pun).

it happened

Will wheaton and scalzi are usually a recipe for an incredible book. kaiju, starter, agent... but this book, it wasn't funny, it wasn't sad, it just was.

Middling Scalzi

Interesting premise that FAR overstays its welcome. This probably should have been about half as long. After the silliness has passed it's one maudlin existential crisis after another. Exhausting.

Sorry, Mr. Scalzi -- I love so very many of your stories but this one is a miss.

Lost me around day 23

I’ve enjoyed this author in the past and looked forward to this title. Sadly, expectations were not quite met. Then, when he threw in the “woke” and abnormal stuff, I was done. Is it mandatory to add that stuff in to get published? If so, hope that changes. I’d like to be able to enjoy his work again.

What a weird premiss that kinda relates to the weird reality we’re currently living in

I generally love Scalzi’s books and listen to them as I quilt. This one was not a favorite. Even so, it was an interesting listen and I will definitely listen to his next book. I loved Starter Villain but that had a much less weird premiss. I just couldn’t wrap my head around how, in this or any universe, the moon could turn to cheese. As I listened to each day’s vignette of different characters reacting and dealing with the event, my mind kept wandering, trying to figure out the author’s underlying message. Given the current political nightmare that those of us who have not been brainwashed know it to be, I wondered if the plot of this book could be compared in some way to the lies we are told and acted upon every day. Could our current reality be just as weird as if the moon turned to cheese? I kinda think so.