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)
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
Accelerando by Charles StrossA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeDiaspora by Greg EganPermutation City by Greg EganAltered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Transhuman Science Fiction
152 books — 187 voters
Red Rising by Pierce BrownWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonRedemption by Regina M. Joseph
Favorite Troubled Characters
104 books — 23 voters

The Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiEast of the Sun by Jade KerrionIbil by Adeerus GhayanNeuromancer by William GibsonUnwind by Neal Shusterman
The Biopunk Collection
82 books — 57 voters
From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank Herbert
A Biopunk reading list
228 books — 99 voters


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In all bluefolk the immune system is quite advanced. A large number of relevant genes seem to be imported from the crocodile: those creatures live in stagnant, muddy water in much warmer climates, where they are exposed to many diseases and parasites. Wrestling with prey or each other, they may be wounded, but the dirty swamp water in the cut is mostly harmless. It was a very important acquisition by the Auravelus; it meant that virtually none of the old bioweapons were effective against them. M ...more
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