When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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

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 *
Bonkers joyPrepare for a cheese apocalypse folks! * The Fantasy Hive *
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

John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man’s War, won him science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Lock In, Redshirts, which won 2013’s Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Last Emperox and The Kaiju Preservation Society. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

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ISBN 13	9781529082913
ISBN 10	1529082919
Title	When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Author	John Scalzi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2025-03-27
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.