Thank you to netgalley for an ARC.

A whimsical romp in which the moon one day, inexplicably, turns to cheese. Rather than following the implications of this in the form of a story, Scalzi instead gives us a pastiche of entertaining set pieces: how does the local church respond; how do the proprietors of competing cheese stores respond; retirees in a coffee shop; Holywood execs; popular science writers; NASA; asshole billionaires; has-been musicians; and so on. There's not really a plot, just a series of conversations. This both does and doesn't work well. I think the series of set pieces is a nice way to explore the implications of something so huge and also so silly as the conceit of this book. But also, Scalzi is not great at characterization. Or rather, he's not great at varying his characterization. Everyone speaks in the same voice; and every conversation has the same fast-paced, reasonably witty back-and-forth. When you have a smaller cast of characters, this isn't so much of a problem. But when you have a book where each chapter introduces new people in new settings with ostensibly new perspectives on the phenomenon, and they all sound exactly the same, it lampshades Scalzi's reliance on this one neat trick pretty saliently.