How Science Fiction Depicts Cars and Bikes, with Jeremy Withers

Today's guest is Jeremy Withers, author of Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction. We discuss authors from Ray Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin to Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Robinson. Part two in my series on the trouble with car culture. Learn more about Jeremy's book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/futuristic-cars-and-space-bicycles-9781802078343?lang=en&cc=us Subscribe to the free weekly-ish Storytelling Animals newsletter: https://apple6.aweb.page/p/de4ee963-cd8d-4ced-9975-e13965236a7d Our August 1 book club will be on Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse: https://daytonmartindale.com/book-club/ Sign up for a 7-day free trial Patreon membership: https://patreon.com/storytellingpod Follow this podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaytonRMartind Like this podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Storytelling-Animals/100078033760061/ This podcast is a proud member of the iRoar network of pro-animal podcasts: https://iroarpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.