When the Moon Hits Your Eye

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi posits what would happen if the moon suddenly turned to cheese - both scientifically and emotionally for everyone on Earth.

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?

Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and patients at the end of their lives – over the length of a lunar cycle, each gets their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to hope, to laugh and to grieve. All in a story that goes all the places you’d expect, and to many others you could never anticipate. For the people of the earth, this could be the end – or the beginning of a whole new world.

Scalzi is a great writer who can write about anything, including writing a serious scifi novel about an absurd premise! 

Scalzi, John. (2025). When the Moon Hits Your Eye. New York: TOR.