The Shape of Today

On the nightstand--August 2025

After a rather serious read from Mr. Christopher Eccleston (I Love the Bones Of You, his tribute to his father, is a must-read), I felt the need for something light and fun. So I turned to John Scalzi.

I had been seeing When the Moon Hits Your Eye on the shelves at work for some time, but didn't realize it had dropped in March. The cover tells a reader all they need to know...an astronaut is standing on the moon, except the surface of the moon looks like cheese.

Because it is. That's literally the premise of the novel. The moon, inexplicably, has turned to cheese.

The narrative deals with how the world is coping with this rather odd cosmic event. Washington, Hollywood, and Main Street America are all coming to terms with a moon that is now much brighter and is having "cheese eruptions" on its surface. I can recognize some thinly disguised versions of, ah, notable people in our current news cycle. Scalzi must have finished the novel very recently.

But it's a great and engaging tale so far, and I"m here for it.