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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
When the Moon Hits Your Eye | John Scalzi
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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.
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julesG
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#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Expected publication: 27 March 2025

I'm shamelessly quoting from the Afterword and Acknowledgements of the review copy I was generously granted: this is "a book about the moon turning to cheese, [...] each chapter represent[s] a day in the lunar cycle, each chapter with mostly different characters in mostly different places in the United States, reacting to it in ways specific [to] them alone"

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julesG What more can I tell you about the book? The title of the book gave me an earworm, but not in a bad way. Each chapter is different, first of all because each chapter has it's own main character(s), who might show up in one of the other 27 chapters again; but also because the style of each chapter is different, one of the chapters is a chat-log, for example.

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julesG Kudos to Mr Scalzi for casually throwing in a historical detail from the 12th century that happened in a city near where I grew up. That's some weird pub-quiz trivia to include in a story about cheese or the moon.

If you have read Scalzi's work before, you will certainly like it. If you haven't read his work before, what are you waiting for?
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LeeRHarry I reading this one atm 😊 2d
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julesG @LeeRHarry Which is also very good! 2d
mariaku21 I'm just thinking of the song now!! And I had just watched 'Moonstruck' the other night 😂 21h
julesG @mariaku21 it's hard not to get an earworm 19h
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"... I have a briefing with the president in exactly half an hour, and because we all know he doesn't bother to read the daily intelligence briefing, it will fall to me to explain what the hell is going on. So explain it to me. Use small words on me so I can use smaller words on him...."

Mr Scalzi, you scare me. This book is supposed to be published next spring. Means you wrote it last year(?).

sarahbarnes 😳 1mo
Suet624 Ugh 1mo
DogMomIrene I love him so much. I‘ve seen him 3x, maybe 4. Not recently, but those engagements were probably within 3-4 years of one another. What impressed me the most was how he told completely different stories at each event. No stump speeches for him, which I so appreciate. 1mo
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Opened my #NetGalley account to check the pub day of a different #ARC and finding this new addition to #MountARC ???

"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?"

Pub Day for UK is 27 March 2025

Bookwomble 🌕🎯👁️🍕👉❤️ 😁 1mo
julesG @Bookwomble I had/have the earworm too 1mo
DogMomIrene I was just thinking of Scalzi and how he must have another book close to publication. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this one.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 1mo
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