biotech n.

= biotechnician n.

  • 1951 S. Marlowe Fugue in Science Fiction Quarterly Nov. 81/1 page image Milton Lesser bibliography

    ‘You were a bio-tech first class, hydroponics division. I—I have a job for you.’ ‘Yes? What’s that?’ ‘Something happened. I don’t know what, but a machine which used to hum doesn’t do it any longer, and the vegetation in ’ponics looks a little sick. The level in the water-storage units is lowering—’ Ker-jon wondered how long the air would last.

  • 1954 ‘W. Tenn’ Down Among Dead Men in Galaxy Science Fiction June 100/1 page image William Tenn bibliography

    I sat staring at them once more, but now I was seeing a different picture. I wasn’t seeing conveyor belts moving slowly along, covered with human tissues and organs on which earnest bio-techs performed their individual tasks. I wasn’t seeing a room filled with dozens of adult male bodies suspended in nutrient solution, each body connected to a conditioning machine which, day and night, clacked out whatever minimum information was necessary for the body to take the place of a man in the bloodiest part of the fighting perimeter. This time, I saw a barracks filled with heroes, many of them in duplicate and triplicate.

  • 1959 J. Leache Miss Millie’s Rose in Fantastic Universe May 87/2 page image Joy Leache bibliography

    ‘We’ll take good care of it,’ Sam said, helpfully. ‘What do you know about miniature rose trees?’ she demanded. Sam hemmed and shut up. ‘We are both biotechs,’ I said. ‘We’ll see that it gets water and sun.’

  • 1960 P. J. Farmer Heel in Worlds of If May 86/1 page image Philip José Farmer bibliography

    Achilles will seem to be dead but will actually be in a state of suspended animation. We’ll sneak his body at night from the funeral pyre and substitute a corpse. A bio-tech who owes me a favor will fix up the face of a dead Trojan or Greek to look like Achilles’. When this epic is done and we’re ready to leave Earth, you can run away.

  • 1962 P. Anderson Progress in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 111/2 page image Poul Anderson bibliography

    You know how the sciences and technologies hang together. Your Island biotechs breed new species to concentrate particular metals out of sea water, so naturally they need to know a good deal about metallurgies too.

  • 1972 ‘J. Tiptree, Jr.’ Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow & Alien in New Dimensions II 22 page image James Tiptree, Jr. bibliography

    He had ordered his tailor to culture him a soma of the dominant mammalian type, using the specs from the old Highfeather report. In consequence he materialized in the New State Department parking lot on a May morning rush hour in the form of a bare baboon-bottomed youth eighteen feet tall with very peculiar arms. Luckily his biotech had included some optional adjustments.

  • 1974 L. Niven & J. Pournelle Mote in God’s Eye (1975) xviii. 139 page image Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle bibliography

    Horace Bury watched the foot-high Moties playing behind the wire screen. ‘Do they bite?’ he asked. ‘They haven’t yet,’ Horvath answered. ‘Not even when the biotechs took blood samples.’

  • 1979 G. Dallas Ones That Got Away in Fantastic Oct. 33 page image Gus Dallas bibliography

    The university pays good commissions for new critters the biotechs can take apart, but I feel a little like those animals under the techs’ cutters sometimes, you know, like there’s no future in piece work.

  • 1996 S. Zettel Reclamation page image Sarah Zettel bibliography

    Every few minutes its head would twitch to one side, as if it had just seen a glimpse of something, and sometimes its hand would strain to reach out, but it made no concentrated effort to remove the oxygen mask or to dislodge the needles pressing into its arms. Consequently, the Bio-tech spent the journey gathering valuable baseline data on the artifact’s physiological attributes.

  • 2015 K. Lord Galaxy Game xiv. 283 page image Karen Lord bibliography

    His gaze flashed from the pale blue window to her excited face. ‘How many more years?’ ‘Less than five hundred. We could make it sooner, I suppose. Most biotechs don’t like to tamper too much with crafted worlds. They’d rather experiment somewhere else, just in case.’


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antedating 1951

Research History
Suggested, and most cites submitted, by Ben Ostrowsky.

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