When the Moon Hits Your Eye
27 March 2025Imprint: Tor
Synopsis
One day, 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...
Details
27 March 2025336 pages
9781509835294Imprint: 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
