An Evening with John Scalzi: When the Moon Hits Your Eye

Schedule

Thu Apr 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Scholar Bookstore | Harrisburg, PA

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New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date.
About this Event

The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome New York Times bestselling science fiction author John Scalzi to Harrisburg for a talk and signing on his new book, WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE.

This is a ticketed event. Every ticket includes a signed copy of the book and up to two general admission seats. Doors will open at 6:00pm, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. Seating is general admission; first come, first served. Book signing to follow discussion.

About the Book:

The moon has turned into cheese.

Now humanity has to deal with it.

For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.

Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives -- over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t.

It’s a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.

About the Speaker:

John Scalzi is one of the most popular science fiction authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man's War, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel), The Last Emperox, The Kaiju Preservation Society, and Starter Villain. Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

Prices include applicable PA sales tax and Harrisburg City amusement tax.

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Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, United States

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