TY - ABST T1 - “Jetta” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Judy Upton (b. 1967) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a future in which a wealthy suburb contracts with a company to provide security drones and security androids to replace the police that the nearby city no longer provides. Crime is rampant due to extreme poverty in the city, and most people in the suburb work from home.

JF - C.A.T.S. in Space: Cycling Across Time and Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR SN - 978-1648411199 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Runner" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future that is anti-technology told from the point of view of a young woman fascinated by it who has been assigned to a job, running messages among the remaining communities, that is the most technology-free work available.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Beasts of Bataranam” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Taru Luojola KW - Finnish author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia set on a slave plantation in Latin America. Elements of fantasy. 

JF - Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, and Dragons PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Accident" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Crossroads” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story describes three societies, one a completely oppressive, hierarchical dystopia, one an anarchist eutopia where all the peoples of the galaxy are welcome and treated equally, and Dyanna, which has tendencies in both directions. The story is told through a bicycle race with a team from each planet taking place on all three planets plus a deserted Fourth World, which are alternate versions of the same present. The protagonist is a black woman with a prosthetic leg and only one good eye. In some way, the race is intended to prevent an interdimensional war. It begins on Planet One, the technically advanced dystopia with smooth metal roads, whose riders look identical, have only a number which identifies superiority and inferiority, and apparently is planning an invasion of the other Earths. The second planet, Dynnya, is a coalition of over a thousand planets. They are primarily agrarian, have no central authority and extremely advanced biotechnology, with most of the planets having no private property, and there has been no war in many thousands of years.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Generations" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is about the settlement of Mars as the people of Earth are dying of radiation poisoning with the settlement a dystopia that replicates colonialism with Africans settled on the worst land with the worst housing a work.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leaving" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Monique Cuillerier ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Livewire" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ayame Whitfield ED - Elly Blue KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland. OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Ain’t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tuere T. S. Ganges ED - Elly Blue KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Under Trump’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Day 3658” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dylan Siegler ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portlandtown” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Questions with the First” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jim Warrenfeltz ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presented through an interview with the dictator as he discovers a threat to his rule.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riding in Place" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarena Ulibarri ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shelter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cynthia Marts ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Signal Lost" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Taming the Beast” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bose, Robert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in a high-tech world where all cars are being replaced by bicycles, and the protagonist struggles to manage the features of his new bicycle.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deadmonton” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexandrea Flynn ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia set in Edmonton, Alberta in which survivors have formed cooperative communities to protect themselves. 

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interchange" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Elizabeth Poley ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa Sargati ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.

JF - Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Breathing Engine” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matthew Lambert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nova’s Cycles” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aaron M. Wilson ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland. OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Object In Motion” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Elizabeth Buchanan ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]. PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

PSt

ER -