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“slow, delicious literary SFF” “Best SF of 2023” “A sexy speculative epic” The Thick and The Lean is out now.

"The Thick and the Lean flips our known world inside out and, in doing so, exposes familiar seams of subjugation—from purity culture to capitalist exploitation. Chana Porter is a brilliant engineer of speculative societies and vivid far-flung realms, but she is also an author who reminds us what matters most in our real lives: the urgency of living our highest truth. This novel is a feast of ideas I didn’t want to end." —Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria

"Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun

"The Thick and the Lean flips our known world inside out and, in doing so, exposes familiar seams of subjugation—from purity culture to capitalist exploitation. Chana Porter is a brilliant engineer of speculative societies and vivid far-flung realms, but she is also an author who reminds us what matters most in our real lives: the urgency of living our highest truth. This novel is a feast of ideas I didn’t want to end." —Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria "Decadent and richly imagined, The Thick and the Lean topples expectations and skillfully re-maps vice and virtue, indulgence and shame as we know them. This book is wildly new and deliciously satisfying, and Porter is one of our moment's most original seers." —Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Something New Under the Sun

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Chana Porter is a novelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia Project, a STEM and writing program for girls and trans and nonbinary youth that uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world. Both of her novels were Lambda Literary award finalists and named Best Sci-if of 2021 and 2023 by The Times of London. She is currently adapting Le Guin’s The Dispossessed for opera with GRAMMY and Pulitzer finalist Ted Hearne.