Review: When the Moon Hits your Eye
John Scalzi is very good at finding a good hook for a story. Redshirts and Starter Villain can both be described in a sentence and are fleshed out into interesting fun reads. When the Moon Hits your Eye is the same. The hook is that one day Earth’s moon inexplicably turns into cheese. He spends the rest of the book looking at how that affects people.
Scalzi does a really nice job picking the people he’s going to talk about and also the topics he’s going to use them to touch. There are little stories about how headlines drive entertainment, and deep moments of grappling with the ineffable. There are lots of funny moments and the prose crackles.
At the end, though, the word I’d use to describe this book is “sweet.”
Strongly recommended.