The Transitive Properties of Cheese

<p><strong>A cheese cave. A sun. A million problems.</strong></p><p></p><p>Millions Wayland was cutting the curds when she learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city. Soon enough she becomes entangled in a messy conflict between several copies of herself that she made decades ago one that soon ferments into a situation ready to go off.</p><p></p><p><em>Cover illustration by Drew Shields. Interior illustrations by Matthew Spencer. Cover design by dave ring.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>PRAISE</strong></p><p></p><p>It's often claimed by admirers and detractors both that trans people are the footsoldiers of transhumanism. <em>The Transitive Properties of Cheese</em> takes this as its premise and its point of departure asking the question 'What if all your possible future selves hated each other wanted to fuck and were at war with the US government?' Marvelously inventive technically deft fascinated by humans' boundless potential for unfolding and change <em>The Transitive Properties of Cheese</em> richly deserves a place next to <em>The Fundamentals of Cheese</em> on every cheese-lover's shelf-and an ever-increasing number of places on every cyberpunk reader's. I want at least ten copies so I can check to see if they're speciating.</p><p>-Maya Deane author of <em>Wrath Goddess Sing</em></p><p></p><p>A strange beautiful journey through the ecstasy-and agony-of knowing all one's selves that are will be or might have been. <em>The Transitive Properties of Cheese</em> asks what difference each decision makes who is left behind and most importantly what would happen if you strapped a rocket to your butt.</p><p>-A.Z. Louise author of <em>Off-Time Jive</em></p><p></p><p><em>The Transitive Properties of Cheese</em> is a wonderful novella that combines engrossing drama and speculative technology with rich writing focused on the sensuality and idiosyncrasy of food sex and embodiment. Wayland Hattie Miller and the rest of the Millions and their politics are complexly and empathetically drawn even in this short space and you will be left wanting more of their world. Ann LeBlanc has brilliantly imagined a queer transhuman future that while not a utopia is full of hope for humanity's capacity for collective joy care and liberation.</p><p>-Lina Rather author of <em>Sisters of the Vast Black</em></p><p></p><p>Get in loser we're doing a cheese heist! In <em>The Transitive Properties of Cheese</em> LeBlanc crafts an exhilarating heartfelt and utterly original tale of betrayal redemption and self-love fit for the toughest novella connoisseurs. The future of SF is bright and LeBlanc is leading the charge wheel of parmesan in hand.</p><p>-A.D. Sui author of <em>The Dragonfly Gambit</em></p><p></p><p>This book is as complex and surprising as a cheddar aged in your own basement. It envisions a future as multitudinously collaborative as the microbiome which makes cheese possible.</p><p>-Sharon J. Gochenour author of <em>The Golden City</em></p><p></p>