Biketopia, Elly Blue
Biketopia, Elly Blue
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Biketopia
Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures

Author: Elly Blue

Narrator: Carolina Hoyos

Unabridged: 4 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2022

Synopsis

In a world with an uncertain future, do you imagine for the best or for the worst case scenario? Twelve writers tackle extreme solarpunk utopias and apocalyptic or political dystopias—and the grey areas in between—in Biketopia, the fourth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist science fiction stories about bicycling. Some find love and fierce resistance in the end times; others imagine an ecological future of saving technology, with solarpunk ecotopian visions, at times paired with crushing social control. Whatever your own future or present reality, these stories will motivate and inspire you to envision something different... and maybe even better.

About Elly Blue

Elly Blue is a writer and bicycle activist living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Grist, Bicycling magazine online, Bitch magazine, BikePortland, The Magazine, and Momentum, among other publications. She has been featured on Democracy Now!, in the Oregonian, and on Oregon Public Broadcasting. Along with Joe Biel, she is coproducer and director of Groundswell, a series of movies about people using bicycling to make their communities better, and a coowner of Microcosm Publishing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunny on June 22, 2024

Maybe 2.5 Sometimes a little too Portland in a bad way, a few solid stories in here, a lot of unmemorable misses for me......more

Goodreads review by Hákon on December 20, 2021

Biketopia is the fourth volume of the Bikes in Space series, each volume a collection of feminist science fiction short stories about bicycling. From the back cover: "Dystopian or Utopian? It's not always clear." It quite true that this science fiction anthology has a mix of these two genre, but I t......more

Goodreads review by Howard on June 29, 2023

4 Stars for Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures (audiobook) Edited by Elly Blue read by Carolina Hoyos. This was a interesting look into the future by twelve writers. They came up with utopias and dystopias where women are taking charge and using bicycles to find t......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on February 11, 2022

I'm giving this book four stars because of the sheer enthusiasm of the editor and writers. I enjoyed most of the stories, but, like the other book in this series that I read, Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers, the stories are......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on November 06, 2018

Short stories are great when you don't feel you have enough attention span for a whole novel - and as soon as I saw this compilation existed I had to buy it. Science Fiction, Feminism, Bicycles: it's almost like it was made just for me. Some of the stories resonated with me, others less so, some fel......more

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