Synopsis
Prepare for the impossible. Expect the unthinkable. 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.
One day, suddenly and without explanation, the moon turns into a ball of cheese.
All people on Earth – children and scientists, billionaires and workers, vicars and politicians – are...
Details
27 March 2025
336 pages
9781509835294
Imprint: Tor
Reviews
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 humouristSFX on Starter Villain
Prepare to be delighted and surprisedThe 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 plutocratThe Financial Times on Starter Villain