biopunk n.
a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the societal effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering
SF Criticism
Genre
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1991 BBR (#19) Summer 52/1
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Eva asks what use is cyberpunk in a country where you can’t even find a functioning public telephone box. In an attempt to define a literature more appropriate for her country [sc. Czechoslovakia], she comes up with Biopunk, where mutants, genetic diseases and chimeric organisms take the place of computers, programs and viruses.
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1993 Science Fiction Studies Nov. 463
Cyberpunk and ‘biopunk’ writers ‘often foreground [the] metafictional potential of paraspace’ by developing an analogy between the author of the text and the author of the cyberspace or paraspace world.
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2002
Cyberpunk was about information technology and hacking the datasphere. Its successor, bio punk, is about biotechnology and hacking the gene pool.
Cool SF Genre: Biopunk in Rolling Stone Apr. 11 80/2 -
2014
Richard Powers (I)
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Between mail-order synthetic DNA and a kitchen stocked with a thousand dollars of gear, an amateur could create a new lethal pathogen. Given how many people want to harm this country, biopunk is one of the greatest threats facing us.
Orfeo 266
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Bill Mullins submitted a 2002 cite from "R.U. Sirius" in Rolling Stone.Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1991 cite from BBR.
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