Re: Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

On 2025-04-28, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:

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Many issues are addressed, and many issues are not addressed. Scalzi
acknowledges this in his Afterword at the end.
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Note: this is NOT hard SF! After all, cheese?

Oh, I disagree!

Much "hard SF" starts with a lone engineer-inventor discovering a new physical
effect which, in the course of a few chapters, becomes a source of free energy,
reactionless propulsion, FTL teleportation and dessert.

Scalzi skips the engineer-inventor, discards the alien spaceship, and goes
directly to the one impossible thing: the Moon becomes cheese. Everything
thereafter follows logically and inexorably, and as James likes to say, in
sufficient detail that you can find the math errors.

Mind you, I don't actually like this book. I will probably never re-read it,
unlike The Kaiju Preservation Society or Starter Villain.

But technically, I am of the opinion that is perfectly fine hard SF.

-dsr-