An utterly bizarre book that takes the premise ‘what if the moon turned into cheese?’ and runs away with it, to both logical and hilarious extremes (albeit not always both at once).
It’s written as a series of interconnected short stories and the points-of-view are incredibly varied, from astronauts hoping to go up to the moon (until it turns to cheese), to a non-fiction author making no money (until the moon turns to cheese), to a young woman hoping for a normal job at the cheese shop (then the moon turns to cheese), to an irrational billionaire making jibes at Musk (especially once the moon is cheese!) and so on.
My only issue with stories told in this way is that I tend to read them one chapter at a time, think ‘that’s very nice’ and then put the book down for a while – they don’t tend to have the same narrative thrust. But in this case, the moon becomes quite the threat and so it did keep pulling me back in.
This is a light book – there are little bits of sort of hard SF in there, but only like a hard cheese variant. It’s mostly just fun. A giant ‘what if?’ That’s not going to work for everyone, but it worked for me! I cared about the characters, and I cared about the cheese puns.
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