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).

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.

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.

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.

Another Scalzi

I say this as a longtime Heinlein fan. i can always spot the work of the master within a paragraph or two. This has led to some rather DEP digs to find his more obscure works.

I now find I can spot one of Mr. Scalzi's works within a paragraph. He has a style that stands out to me. I now find myself going after his works as soon as they come out.

This book had some standard Scalzi devices. It also had an almost unholy disregard for suspension of disbelief. Yet I found myself suspending for all I was worth. It's just that good.

I look forward to reading the book now, savoring every word. I'll be patient and go back over the more delicious parts at my leisure.

Thank you, Mr. Scalzi for feeding my addiction yet again.