From the New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain comes an entirely serious take on a distinctly unserious subject: what would really happen if suddenly the moon were replaced by a giant wheel of cheese.
It’s a whole new moooooon.
One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters — schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians — as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.
Narrators: Wil Wheaton
My Rating: 3.75/5?
Goodreads Rating: 3.81?
Storygraph Rating: 3.95?Length: 10hrs 5mins / 326pgs
Sci-Fi | Speculative Fiction | Humour
Pacing: Fast
Spice: None
Gore: None
I was expecting this to be a bit of an obvious ‘hit me over the head with humour’ type of book. Granted, I’m not very familiar Scalzi’s work having only read Starter Villain previously. However, it turned out to be a delightful group of short stories following a whole slew of characters and their reactions to the discovery of their Moon being turned into… cheese. Don’t ask me what type!
The character work was really fun. A variety of people who all react in such different ways to this shocking and potentially life-threatening phenomenon. My favourite characters were the retired professors (and bus driver) from Oklahoma and the college kids from the competitive cheese shops.
The pacing was just right for the levity ambiguous science of the cheese-based disaster.
Basically, a fun little read which I quite enjoyed.
Julia Kitvaria Sarene