Biopunk

Biopunk is a portmanteau word combining "biology" and "punk".

Science fiction

Biopunk is a sub-genre of science fiction which uses elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose. It describes the nihilistic, underground side of the biotech society which started to evolve in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Unlike cyberpunk, it builds not on informational technology but on biology. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very chromosomes. The most prominent writer in this field is Paul Di Filippo , though he called his collection of such stories ribofunk, with the first element being taken from the full name of RNA, ribonucleic acid.

Movement

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See also

• Biohacker
• Cyberpunk
• Democratic transhumanism
• Postcyberpunk

External links

• Biopunk by Annalee Newitz
• Genome liberation by Annalee Newitz