When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Rating = ****

If the news reported, completely seriously, that the moon and all known moon rock 
samples instantaneously turned to cheese (or a cheese-like organic matrix per the 
official NASA statement), how would you deal with it? How would the president deal with 
it? Your neighbors? Evangelical preachers? And then, what if the moon turning to cheese 
appeared to trigger a life-ending event on earth?

Can an author really delve into those meaty questions with this ridiculous premise? 
Scalzi can. Did I mention the cheese-related puns? He bounces back and forth between 
chapters where he very seriously considers how an evangelical preacher would explain 
this to the flock, and then in another chapter we spend the day with a Hollywood 
producer sitting through pitch after pitch of bad cheese-related TV and movie pitches. 
It's not a traditional follow two-main-characters story. It's more like an anthology, 
with each chapter considering how one specific group or person is dealing. There is a 
light connection weaving through the story, but I'm not sure if it was even necessary.

Somehow when you finish this book, you'll find yourself thinking about the meaning of 
life and cheese puns at the same time.