Scalzi is able to write humorous novels that get at deeper truths and really go places. "Red Shirts" and "The Kaiju Preservation Society" are Scalzi at his peak. This is not one of those books. It probably should have been a novelette, like "The President's Brain is Missing". It's a one-trick book, and those are best when the one trick is researched and taken to its logical extreme. That didn't happen here--Scalzi wrote the science off the top of his head, and spent much more time working out how people in various positions would react to the sure end of the world. Toward the end it gets quite heartwarming, and made me happy I had read it. But I can't lift the rating any higher than a 3. Lots of stories but little depth.
David (Spring, TX)’s review of When the Moon Hits Your Eye | Goodreads
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