Today’s TTT is “Top Ten Covers with ______ on them”, and for the mystery noun is…BICYCLES. But first, teases!
“I’m guessing you didn’t slip a sedative into my drink and drag me all the
way out into the boondocks and drape me from a tree just to discuss, I don’t
know, philosophy. ’Less you have, in which case I apologize for misreadin’
the situation. It’s just, you don’t look the philosophy type.” (Firefly: Life Signs)“Sometimes you just have to accept there’s nothing you can do. Things are what they are. Raging at them, fighting them—it’s pointless.”
“Raging and fighting’s what I do. What I’ve always done.”
“I know, and I’m asking you to be different now, Mal. For my sake, and
for yours.(Firefly: Life Signs)
For this list I mostly used my /bicycles tag, but four on the bottom row are ones I’ve not read. There’s a goodreads list for this! The books are:
- Hey, Mom, Can I Ride my Bike Across America? About a teacher who takes his kids on bike tours.
- In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclists. A delightful history!
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Bikes not related to the story.
- A Hole in the Wind. A climate scientist pedals around the US to talk to people about environmental changes they’re observing
- Bikenomics
- Wheels of Change, on bicycles and women’s progress
- By the Book
- Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction
- The Summer Before the War
- The Wheels of Chance. A funny story from H.G Wells, believe it or not.
And now, the SciFI prompt for today is “Future Cities”. Obviously, Foundation comes to mind, given its planet-city of Trantor, later the inspiration for Coruscant in Star Wars. Asimov — a man of New York — believed humanity would create hyper-urban environments, including underground. Metatropolis, a collection of short stories set in the next century or so, is all about humans having to adapt the built environment to the social collapse that may follow environmental issues, so it’s worth mentioning.
Reading Freely 
Future cities are one of my favourite Sci-Fi themes. I’ve lived in, near or worked in large cities all of my life (they’re pretty hard to avoid in England!) so I’m a fan despite their *many* problems. With demographics as they are (ATM at least) we won’t be heading for Trantor any time soon, but I think they’re always be at least a handful of HUGE mega-cities around.
I feel like this week is going to be so fun, seeing what everyone chose to do! This is a great theme!
Fun theme!
I did recently read a cute book with a bicycle on the cover: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6816338119
For today: https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/11/05/my-top-10-books-with-an-eiffel-tower-on-the-cover/
Fun choice. Summer Before the War was good.
I miss riding bicycles!
Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Lydia
I haven’t thought about bikes in years, but they are cool. Thank you for visiting our post this week.
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-covers-with-snow-and-ice-on-the-cover/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a>
Astilbe
Nice topic choice. I haven’t read any these but Wheels of Change especially looks interesting.
A great collection of covers!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/romance-covers-with-couples-on-them/
Oh my, yes, I love seeing all those bicycles!
Great topic choice! I like book covers with bicycles on them as well. Very whimsical. I read a lot of historical fiction and bikes are very popular on those types of covers.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Such a fun idea! I haven’t read any of these books before, but I love the covers for Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Wheels of Change 🙂 Thanks for visiting my blog!
Likewise! 🙂
Oh oh! The Firefly Series! Where does it fit in terms of the timeline? I have Big Damn Hero on my tbr! Bikes is a clever choice for you since I know how much you like cities and transportation 🙂
Also, it’s been weirdly hot where I live this week, I just came back from a walk and I’m boiling and yet getting cozy with a blanket still sounds nice lol.
I wanna add Paper Girls vol1 to your list, the series includes lots of biking around.
Firefly doesn’t have anything to do with Star Trek, but it’s one of my favorite SF ships nontheless. Ditto the Millenium Falcon. 🙂
Thanks for the tip about Paper GIrls!
Those are all cool ships, that’s true 🙂
Caffiene just hit my brain and I realized what you meant. This is a series set before the show proper and the movie. Inara’s gone but otherwise it’s business as usual.
haha I’m not a coffee person but I’ve heard sometimes it helps 😜 And oh that sounds fun, I found the audiobooks for that the other day so I just might have to listen to them because the thought of more firefly stories that I don’t know yet is so exciting!