This Is Your Bike on Plants: Fantastical Feminist Stories of Bicycling, Gardens, and Growth

Bikes in Space #12

by Elly Blue (Editor)

When you plant the seeds of bicycle revolution, you never know what the future will grow. These 12 stories form a splendid garden of potential futures, from the speculative to the surreal—all powered by bicycles, grounded in feminism, and blossoming with creativity. In these pages you'll find activist trees, magical flowers, feminist fairy tales, climate parables, photosynthesizing human-bicycle cyborgs, revolutionary elves, dazzling space gardens, green witchcraft, and more to delight your imagination. Lovers of cli-fi, solarpunk, hopepunk, and feminist bicycle science fiction will all find something to love here. You'll never see the streets, or plants, around you the same way again. Featuring stories by Kathryn Reilly, Marta Pelrine-Bacon, Cass Wilkinson Saldaña, Amanda McNeil, Ella P. Francis, Lisa Timpf, Bee Toothman, Kelley Tai, Jennifer Lee Rossman, J.D. Harlock, Kathryn Reese, and special guests.

160 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2024

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up. As with most anthologies, the stories were a bit hit or miss. I really enjoyed some of them. Not a book I'm going to keep on my shelf but I'm glad I read it.