Bikes Not Rockets: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction
A project in Portland, OR by Elly Blue000days
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Latest News
Author Spotlight: Julia K. Patt 
July 31st - via: kickstarter.com
For all that it's about space flight, Julia K. Patt's story in Bikes Not Rockets, "This Dusty Way to Galaxies Beyond" reads like a fairy tale or myth. All the aesthetic details of her imagined reality are strange, but the social and class dynamics... (Read More)
One week left! Plus, save the date.
July 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi backers, We are 82% funded with just over a week to go! Thank you so much for bringing us this far. Also, you're invited to a book release event for Bikes Not Rockets and our other new release this winter, True Trans Bike Rebel. It's at Multnomah... (Read More)
Author Spotlight: Gretchin Lair Resists the System
July 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Even though Bikes Not Rockets is the fifth feminist science fiction anthology I've published, it's the first to include a story about abortion. I'm thrilled (and somewhat relieved) that it's Gretchin Lair who broke the ice on this difficult topic.... (Read More)
Author Spotlight: Monique Cuillerier
July 20th - via: kickstarter.com
The opening story in Bikes Not Rockets is Monique Cuillerier's "Leaving." Her sad, dreamlike tale of a woman caught between the past and future on a dying Earth perfectly captures the crossroads theme of the book. If you stick around for Bikes in... (Read More)
Author Spotlight: Kat Lerner Questions Our Human Assumptions
July 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi backers. First off, a great big yawp—Bikes Not Rockets is Kickstarter's project of the day on their homepage today! Thanks for helping make this thing come alive! The real heart and soul of this magic is the artists and authors who poured their... (Read More)
Author Spotlight: Tuere T.S. Ganges Rides Out the Apocalypse
July 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello backers! Thanks for joining us here in the feminist, pedal-powered future. Today's Bikes Not Rockets contributor profile is of Tuere T.S. Ganges, who packed a novel's-worth of story into her "This Ain't the Apoca-Rich You Hoped For." It spans... (Read More)
Author spotlight: Summer Jewel Keown Works the System
July 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks for joining us, backers! Today's Bikes Not Rockets contributor profile is of Summer Jewel Keown, whose very funny story, "First the Rapture, Then the Paperwork" is about two bicycle activists of very different eras meeting cute and discovering... (Read More)
Author spotlight: Elly Bangs at the Crossroads
July 16th - via: kickstarter.com
I asked all the contributors to Bikes Not Rockets if they'd answer some interview questions to post while this project runs. Elly Bangs, whose story "At the Crossroads" was the first submission that came in for the book was, suitably enough, the... (Read More)
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