| Title: | Bicycling through Space and Time |
| Author: | Mike Sirota |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Ace Books, New York |
| Year: | 1991 |
| ISBN: | 0-441-05735-7 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |
| Abstract: | I bought this book second-hand, just because I like to bicycle myself and I thought the title was funny.
I wasn't going to be disappointed - it was great fun! Jack Miller in Los Angeles is visited by aliens who explain to him that his bicycle had been modified and equipped with a 22nd gear which would allow him to enter the "ultimate bike path" where he could ride to any point in space and time. He was going to explore other worlds, and the future and the past. Too bad it's only a short book, but I discovered that the author had written at least two more volumes... |
| Quotation: | I was back on Earth. Where - or when - I had no idea. Just up the road was a building; or maybe more than one side by side. I was too far away to see. Closer, coming toward me, was a small heard of cows, urged along by a plain-looking girl of about seventeen. She was dressed in a red-and-white dirndl and bonnet; her long hair was braided. I said hello and stepped aside as she passed with the cows, but she was shy and barely nodded at me. Dirndl. Europe. These mountains were probably the Alps. But that covered a lot of ground. |
| Read by me: | August 2005 |
Responsible for these pages: U. Zimmermann