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- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 1.05 x 8.55 in
- Weight
- 14.6 oz
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Publication date
- March 25, 2025
- Language
- English
- Print length
- 336 pages
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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. OTHER TOR BOOKS BY JOHN SCALZI Agent to the Stars The Android’s Dream Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008 The Kaiju Preservation Society Starter Villain Monsters of Ohio THE OLD MAN’S WAR NOVELS Old Man’s War The Ghost Brigades The Last Colony Zoë’s Tale The Human Division The End of All Things The Shattering Peace THE LOCK IN SERIES Lock In Head On Unlocked THE INTERDEPENDENCY SEQUENCE The Collapsing Empire The Consuming Fire The Last Emperox EDITED BY JOHN SCALZI Metatropolis Read more
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| Publisher | Tor Books |
|---|---|
| Publication date | March 25, 2025 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 336 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0765389096 |
| ISBN-13 | 91 |
| Item Weight | 14.6 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.8 x 1.05 x 8.55 inches |
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A Great Read, The Best Purchase You’ll Make This Week
Format: Kindle
• Writing comedy is hard. Writing comedy in a science fiction novel is almost impossible. Douglas Adams was able to pull it off in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” but few other authors have been so fortunate. After reading this book, I believe we can add John Scalzi to that exalted list, for I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It made me LOL so many times, I’d lost count. • Yes, the premise is silly—that the moon suddenly turns to cheese—but the way Scalzi weaves the reader through the many, MANY ramifications of how this event affects a multitude of characters was like breathing fresh air after being cooped up in a cave for a decade. So many fresh and engaging perspectives. So many good, funny, and (at times) heartwarming scenes about everyday people. So many different reactions to this preposterous event, all of which show some aspect of the human experience and what some of us consider “important” in life. This novel is NOT about how the people of Earth are going to solve this problem, but how they react to it. The premise may be a farce, but the normal (and abnormal) reactions to it are definitely not. • The rapid pace of character introduction doesn’t stop. My advice: just roll with it. Initially, I found this a little off-putting, that Mr. Scalzi expected me to remember so many characters (with FULL names and FULL backgrounds, mind you), but by the third or fourth chapter, I’d grown accustomed to it, trusting the author wouldn’t disappoint me with forced memorization (he didn’t) of characters’ names, traits, and events. When revisiting some characters, Scalzi did a wonderful job in reminding me with just a few well-chosen words, enough to jog my memory without slowing the pace. And the pace was EXCELLENT! The fact that I devoured this book in just 7 days (a record for a slow reader like myself) is testament enough to that. • I honestly don’t know how Scalzi came up with so many unique chapters, most of which had some humor in them. His depth of knowledge and/or research material blows me away; I learned a lot while being thoroughly entertained. Thank you, John Scalzi! • Growing in hilarity and ridiculousness, the dialogue is quick and witty, enough to move the scene forward to its logical conclusion. The chapters on the Hollywood VP of Development (Chp. 8), the spoiled trust fund brat (Chp. 9), the cheese shop (Chps. 11 & 18), and the bank chairman & his suck-ups (Chp. 22) are my favorites, hilarious and poignant. The NASA chapters are also very good. • I think I will return to this book again in a couple of years just to read Scalzi’s brilliant prose again. I’ve not enjoyed a book of humor so much in about a decade. It’s well worth a FIVE-STAR rating.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2026 by Rick M. Cook
It's a Scalzi book - that's all you need to know
Format: Kindle
When I read the description of this book, that the Moon turns to cheese, I was hesitant to read it. But then I realized that I had a similar problem with his previous book "Starter Villain" and I loved that book. So I took the plunge and bought the book - I was glad I did. As one might expect the book is quite humorous as well as touching. Yes, the Moon turns to cheese but this book is not a fantasy, instead Scalzi plays it straight. He smartly does not offer an explanation for how or why this happened but simply deals with the fact that it did. The book then proceeds to how various individuals react to it. There are no main characters in the book as each chapter deals with a new group of people (although some character appear in multiple chapters). So what is this book actually about? It is, like most books, about human nature. And in the capable hands of Scalzi it is a well-told collection of fascinating tales. The book deals with people's reaction to the cheese Moon. He features astronauts, the President, scientists, a multi-billionaire owner of a space company, a man of the cloth, and of course a myriad of common folk. And the ending - simply marvelous and very satisfying..
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Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2025 by Richard Irwin
Disappointing, considering the funny premise
Format: Kindle
With a funny premise, I thought the book would be funny. At some points, it was. But the author stopped the funny bits and played the whole thing like a straight man looking for a punchline that never came. It's a series of vignettes about how various people and institutions would react if the moon turned into cheese. Most of the stories are boring and you can insert some other apocaplyptic premise such that the story would begin and end the same. Disappoining, considering that the Kaiju book was freakin awesome.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2026 by Joshua
Cheesy Good Fun
Format: Kindle
So the moon turned to cheese. That’s a thing that happened. I mean, that’s not a metaphor or anything. John Scalzi wrote a book where the moon literally turned to cheese. Not sure what kind of cheese. Just snap and boom, moon is cheese. 100% serious. And not just the moon, but any pieces of the moon we might have on Earth. Boom, cheese. This book doesn’t focus on any one singular person, which is a departure for Scalzi. Usually, he focuses on one, maybe two POVs thoroughly for the extent of a novel. Instead, each chapter takes the POV of someone on the Earth–a group of retired intellectuals at a diner, a guy at a space museum, some NASA astronauts who had their mission cancelled, a priest, a comedian, a bank executive, a billionaire with a space shuttle, etc. The novel shifts focus to someone new for each day of the lunar cycle, though some threads reappear, adding cohesion to the storyline. Scalzi seems to write in threes, like the Resident Evil series. Three books of Old Man’s War, three books of The Collapsing Empire, three codas to Redshirts, three books for Lock-In (I’m counting the novella as one until another book comes out), three for The Dispatcher, and then these last three–The Kaiju Preservation Society, Starter Villain, and When the Moon Hits Your Eye are his (self-proclaimed) weird stuff trilogy. Which makes sense. In fact, the book reminds me of the written version of a concept album. Several songs all concentrating on a theme, but moving forward chronologically to an endpoint. It’s an amusing book and I liked all the stories and threads within. Primarily it deals with grief. Without spoiling too much, the moon turning to a much less dense substance is not great for Earth’s long-term sustainability. So there are themes about getting older, facing death, approaching the end of your life, how people react when their days are numbered. The biggest flaw is that all the stories have Scalzi’s voice. None of the characters vary up their tone or speaking words no matter what part of the country they’re in.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2026 by Eric Juneau
Ridiculous premise that is hit or miss
Format: Hardcover
This reads like a series of short stories about people reacting to the moon suddenly turning into cheese. The chapters themselves were very hit or miss, but I had fun and some were actually moving. I don’t think you can complain about a book with this ridiculous of a premise.
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2026 by Average Pastor
You won’t believe your eyes!
Format: Hardcover
Huge thank you to Tor Publishing Group for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own. If you want your sci fi books to start with elementary school moon fact, boy have I got the book for you! All jokes aside, what can you expect when you crack open a John Scalzi book? In his latest novel he posits what would happen if the moon was actually turned into cheese. If you guessed you’d be laughing within the first few pages, you’d be right. The novel opens with Virgil Augustine who runs in a space and astronaut museum in Ohio. All seems normal until it’s discovered a slice of coveted moon rock has been stolen and a dupe left in its place. Or so he thinks. Not stolen exactly, but changed. Into cheese. In fact, every single lunar sample on Earth is now cheese, including the moon itself. What, you may ask yourself, does that mean for Earth? As it turns out, a lot. We follow a timeline rather than a set group of protagonists, each chapter marking the days since the moon was made cheese, or rather an organic matrix, I mean. As each day ticks by, we see the impacts unfold on society. We get to see a few characters more than once, which sounds like it would be exhausting. I can assure you it’s not. Each chapter lays bare exactly what Americans would be doing when the moon turns to cheese in the most authentic way. I zipped through this book. Even at the halfway point I couldn’t believe at how wrapped into this I was. I enjoyed the humor, the real people from all walks of life, and the cheese puns. You can’t be mad at the sheer scope of cheese puns, it’s truly a work of art. Scalzi excels in writing laugh-out-loud dialogue with his characters. They are believable, human, and made for TV. I lost count of the times I would cackle out loud reading this. There were also more than a few times I found myself tearing up. Scalzi paints the full picture of being human in the face of an existential crisis, along with all the beautiful and ugly emotions that come with it. Long story short, pick this book up and devour it. I promise you, it’s Gouda.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2025 by AndaReadsTooMuch
Not my favorite Scalzi, but worth the read
Format: Kindle
It gave Neil Gaimans American Gods vibes as we see how different groups across the county react to the moon suddenly turning to cheese and the apocalyptic event that follows. While well written and fun with authentic feeling emotions, as expected from John Scalzi, the lack of a main character or rather the moon as the main character made it read more like an anthology then a novel.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2026 by Annette
Interesting start, obviously rushed ending
Format: Kindle
I am a bit disappointed. Interesting premise, possibly coming off the old "moon is made of green cheese" yarn. Spoilers It started out well, especially in Neil Armstrong's hometown. Getting killed by a cheese volcano was a fitting end for the Richard Branson clone, or was it Bill Gates? By the time I was 85% through there was no end in sight, then it just ended shortly afterward. It felt like Scalzi had a deadline.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2026 by William Kelly