The revolution will be green, growing, and non-motorized

This Is Your Bike on Plants

Fantastical Feminist Stories of Bicycling, Gardens, and Growth

by Elly Blue (Editor)

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.

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.

SUBJECT: Feminism / Gardening / Bikes / Microcosm Published / Elly Blue Publishing / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Nature / Bikes in Space

PUBLICATION: Nov 12, 2024

PRICE: $13.95

ISBN: 9781648412318

FORMAT: 160 pages, 5x8", paperback

WHOLESALE: $8.37

CARTON QTY: 72

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Marketing Notes

Climate Fiction or CliFi is a growing genre trend, as are Solarpunk and Hopepunk - this volume could be classified as either
Previous books in the series have sold 45,000 copies

Elly Blue is a co-owner and the vice president of Microcosm Publishing, and the co-host of the People's Guide to Publishing podcast. Her books include Everyday Bicycling and Bikenomics, and she is the editor of the annual Bikes in Space anthology of feminist bicycle science fiction. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, their dog, and a small fleet of cargo bicycles.

A small, innovative publishing house, Microcosm Publishing specializes in work designed to make the reader feel good about being alive, take an active role in bettering their life, and impact the world around them. Microcosm has developed a reputation for teaching self-empowerment, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, politics, and art. Our books are printed in the USA.