![]() It did take a little while to work out the style of the book. ![]() However, THE COURIER'S NEW BICYCLE was being talked about a lot by my fellow Sisters in Crime and, I'm not completely opposed to the occasional foray outside my comfort zone, so all in all the recommendations seemed like a good enough reason to try it out. Not being one for speculative fiction, this isn't a book that I would have sought out, even with its cross-genre aspects. It highlights the cruelty to animals for drugs testing or production of drugs, the power of women and the strength of transgender people. There's a lot of subtle digs at political parties and religious groups. Salisbury has a small group of liberally thinking friends who have to be careful to protect their activities from the roving patrols of vigilantes and religious prayer groups. ![]() Narrated by Salisbury, who is a late 20s transgender bike courier working for one of the main fertility drug sellers. Set in inner Melbourne, the centre of the city has become an underground slum of bordellos, illegal bars and drug sellers. They have also implemented many other draconian laws This has lead to an underground world of chemists and gangs dealing with all things now illegal. ![]() The Government is now lead by an ultra right-wing, religious party which has banned any type of fertility drugs for being unnatural. In the near future, the vaccination for a type of bird flu has gone wrong and most people are now infertile. ![]()
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