When the Moon Hits Your Eye

De: John Scalzi

Narrado por: 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.

Meh

Scalzi is one of my favorite writers. This was just not up to his usual brilliance. Too many characters, too many loose threads, and the central event walked right past unusual and took up residence in ridiculous territory.

Wheaton was excellent as always.

Not Good Science (but I love it anyway)

Let me say first that I'm completely biased; I love Wil Wheaton and I adore John Scalzi, so my review stars are likely a smidge inflated. Second, a fluffing (and fluff censorship, but what else to do?) work training got in the way of my listening to this quickly and cleanly on the first day.

Okay, now to the meat and potatoes (to go with my cheese) of my review: this book is WEIRD. If you haven't read Scalzi short stories, this might be too weird for you. I think, though, that if you haven't read about yogurt taking over the world or household appliances gossiping about humans, your lack of notice is kinda your problem. Also to the bad science, and the argument for this being the last in something of a goofy trilogy, I still enjoyed the story, particularly for the reactions of the characters. I would still highly recommend reading or listening to this, as lighthearted fun is sorely needed these days.

Finally, I would like to think that we as a species are going to wake up at some point and realize that burning to death when it's perfectly preventable makes now entirely as ridiculous and laughable as this story. I had such a great time, hearing the amusement in Wil's voice and I can't wait for the next book.

Disappointing

I am a huge fan of John Scalzi, I have loved every book that I have read, but this one. The whole premise is too unbelievable to even be science fiction, no real characters to identify with, and not much of a plot.
In spite of this, Wil Wheaton did a fantastic job reading it. I admit to listening to books just because he is reading.

say cheese

I couldn't help myself. honestly this was the funniest, most realistic (as far as sci-fi goes), and most creative I've ever heard. I usually say nothing new under the sun but this is the most original I'd read in a long time.

Fun premise.

The story provides multiple perspectives of the moon bing suddenly transformed into a large ball of organic matrix (aka. Cheese). It’s fun. Will Wheaton does a fantastic job as narrator. If you like Scalzi give it a go.

Gotta love Scalzi! But this one has too many characters.

This is brilliant as usual for Scalzi, and Weaton performs it perfectly again. I have one complaint on this particular Scalzi novel: too many characters! My brain can manage only so much.

Always a great time with Scalzi

This author is one of my favorites and I aspire to be like him. His writing style and stories always impress!

It is a great book.

He writes so well. And it is a very good book and it helped me to work past issues we are all facing with the current government issues.

A different kind of plot

This book was really fun to listen to. With that in mind, you do have to come into it with the understanding that the plot is not traditional. there's no central character or even cast of characters. We do occasionally return to some characters often from a different point of view. But for the most part the main character is the moon.

If you have ever read or listened to miniatures by Scalzi, this feels very similar to his on the street alien interviews short story. It is all about the day's directly following something miraculous happening from a wide variety of perspectives.

It's funny, short, meaningful, and sometimes introspective. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and putting myself into that world. What would I have done? What would you have done?

Fantastic story with an absurd premise

The moon turns to an “organic matrix” most similar to cheese. A melty eruption threatens humanity. A disparate group of characters respond. College students. Sibling owners of rival cheese shops. A man desperate to have an eclipse party go off as previously scheduled. An aging rock star and his ex wife. The US president and First Lady. An author of an aptly timed book and his agent. NASA and presidential staffers. A billionaire. A strategy team at a big bank. People all over the internet. Their stories are frustrated, fun, funny, heartwarming and generally fantastic. Scalzi wrote another good one, even if it’s an absurd premise. And Wil Wheaton perfectly performs it, as always. I hear Wil Wheaton’s voice when I read Scalzi books on paper.