Review
The Age of the Bicycle is an unusual treasure Like a good Douglas Adams book (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, for example), The Age of the Bicycle is great at having fun critiquing humanity in fun, adventuristic, and inventive ways. Set in Tinny Waters, Texas, a fictional town reminiscent of Austin (Texas), The Age of the Bicycle explores what happens when all the cars on the planet suddenly cease working Imagining a world where returning to bicycles is the main resource for keeping the world going may give you as whole new perspective on the Y2K issue. Would society fall to its knees, or would lots of great things start happening? Would Pollution drop, people become more healthy, and the wilderness get a chance to recover? Might there be tea shops where the interstate once was a giant, slow-moving parking lot? (Chris Symmank, Austin Cycling News, February 1999) -- Chris Symmank, Austin Cycling News, February 1999
The whole thing comes off as a cross between Voltaire and Douglas Adams, with a liberal ladling of A Thousand and One Nights. -- Editor, The Texas Writer, May 1999
The whole thing comes off as a cross between Voltaire and Douglas Adams, with a liberal ladling of A Thousand and One Nights. -- Editor, The Texas Writer, May 1999
About the Author
"Miriam Webster" is the pseudonym of Amy Babich, mathematician, classicist, and advocate of human-powered transportation. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she rows on the river, swims year-round, bicycles everywhere, and would never dream of driving a car. Her first novel was After Math, a humorous tale of intrigue and murder in the Department of Mathematics at a large southwestern university.
