Cross Product

This is my first novel. It was originally posted as a series of articles in talk.bizarre during October 1999 - December 2000, and accordingly it's in the talk.bizarre genre: sort of fantasy/SFish.

Cross Product, chapter 1: Freedom and intelligence: A dream about witchcraft and radio astronomy. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 2: Distance and heritage: Some fairy tales. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 3: Tired light: I've got a Twinkie with your name on it, boy. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 4: Green and yellow: You're likely to be found a week later face-down in a vat of liquid helium or something. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 5: Line coverage: You did used to be a geographer, right? (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 6: The lead badge: No shackles or restraints of any kind... (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 7: No place for you: Get out of my menbane patch! (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 8: Tetrachromat women: We'd never get funding if it's a no boys allowed club, especially not when there will probably be two or three color-blind men born per tetrachromat woman. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 9: Jugging for cats: 'What is in these?' 'Miracle Whip and ketchup.' 'Oh.' (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 10: Yes means no: I'd like to live in your world, I really would. It sounds like a nice place. But over there is something more like reality. Or less, I can't tell anymore. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 11: Whiteshade simple: I will make for you a poultice of wolf dock and covet my neighbour. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 12: Crimson and pearl: She had chipped black toenail polish. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 13: Every possible Universe: Some fairy tales. (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 14: In a midnight choir: What part of the entire Universe dost thou not understand? (21 December 2000)
Cross Product, chapter 15: The eleutherophobe: Remember that time - with the girl - Cepheid variable - I knew - and how I kept my mouth shut? Well, what about that? (21 December 2000)