This is a quite interesting short story collection with a really fascinating gimmick (yes, it‘s bicycles in space. A lot of bicycles in space.) Well, okay, some of the bicycles are also ridden on planets, with riders focussed on finding peace and raising children or collecting luck through collective bicycle parkour, but many of them are set directly in space, from exploring other planets to a bicycle race that changes your gender.
I really, really enjoyed this collection. There‘s magic street art, two bicycle racers caught up in a galactic war, a sentient bicycle friend and even a transgender werewolf bicycle repair man. What I especially enjoyed is that this short story collection presents a variety of transgender stories (sometimes focussing on general trans stories, but also with trans man, trans women and nonbinary main characters!) and even though I feared the stories might get repetitive at points (after all I wondered how many different trans sci fi stories can you write if they focus on bicycles? the answer is many!) this was not the case and I really enjoyed this anthology.
As always with anthologies I did not love every story presented here and especially the variety in length sometimes bothered me as some stories were much too short, whereas others (especially in comparison) seemed to drag on a little bit, but if you enjoy your sci-fi fun, diverse and with a general positive and happy vibe check this anthology out!