Biopunk

Biopunk science fiction is a subgenre of cyberpunk fiction that focuses on the near-future unintended consequences of the biotechnology revolution following the discovery of recombinant DNA. Biopunk stories explore the struggles of individuals or groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a backdrop of totalitarian governments and megacorporations which misuse biotechnologies as means of social control and profiteering. Unlike cyberpunk, it builds not on information technology, but on synthetic biology. Like in postcyberpunk fiction, individuals are usually modified and enhanc ...more

The Windup Girl
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Ribofunk (Di Filippo, Paul)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1)
Blood Music
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
...what we’d done, participating in the roasting of a little boy, even performed in ignorance, should’ve done more to disrupt our lives than a few sleepless nights.
Eva Allyn Taylor, Gaslighting

Tony Del Degan
Now I may safely plot my course, without the pressure of oncoming digestion…
Tony Del Degan, Ceres

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