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List Of Biopunk Works
This is a list of works classified as biopunk, a subgenre of science fiction and derivative of the cyberpunk movement. Some works may only be centered around biotechnologies and not fit a more constrained definition of biopunk which may include additional cyberpunk or postcyberpunk elements. Print media Novels *''The Butterfly Effect'' by Rajat Chaudhuri * ''Blood Music (novel), Blood Music'' (1985) by Greg Bear * ''Change Agent (novel)'' (2017) by Daniel Suarez (author), Daniel Suarez − described as doing for biopunk what William Gibson did for cyberpunk * ''Clade (novel), Clade'' (2003) and ''Crache (novel), Crache'' (2004) by Mark Budz * ''Darwin's Radio, Darwin'' series (1999–2003) by Greg Bear * ''Got a Bad Case of the Horribly Wrongs'' (2016) by Khurt Khave * ''Holy Fire (novel), Holy Fire'' (1996) by Bruce Sterling * ''Leviathan (Westerfeld novel), Leviathan Trilogy'' (2009–11) by Scott Westerfeld * ''Lilith's Brood, The Xenogenesis trilogy'' (1987–89) by Octavia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biopunk
Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" or "biology" and "punk") is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than mechanical cyberware and information technology. Biopunk is concerned with synthetic biology. It is derived of cyberpunk involving bio-hackers, biotech megacorporations, and oppressive government agencies that manipulate human DNA. Most often keeping with the dark atmosphere of cyberpunk, biopunk generally examines the dark side of genetic engineering and represents the low side of biotechnology. Description Biopunk is a subgenre of science fiction closely related to cyberpunk that focuses on the near-future (most often unintended) consequences of the biotechnology revolution following the invention of recombinant DNA. Biopunk stories explore the struggles of individuals or groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a typically dystopian b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilith's Brood
''Lilith's Brood'' is a collection of three works by Octavia E. Butler. The three volumes of this science fiction series (''Dawn'', ''Adulthood Rites'', and ''Imago'') were previously collected in the now out-of-print volume ''Xenogenesis''. The collection was first published under the current title of ''Lilith's Brood'' in 2000. Synopsis ''Dawn'' (1987) The first novel in the trilogy, ''Dawn'', begins with Lilith Iyapo, a black human woman, alone in what seems like a prison cell. She has memories of this happening before, with an enigmatic voice that asks strange questions. She has no idea who this is or what they want. She remembers a nuclear war and an earlier traffic accident in which her husband and child had been killed. The truth emerges by stages. The same questions are asked. She is then visited by humanoid beings whose appearance terrifies her, even though they behave well. She learns that the nuclear war had left the Earth uninhabitable. Humans are all but ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unwind (novel)
''Unwind'' is a 2007 dystopian novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman. It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War, which was labeled "The Heartland War", was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use. The reasoning is that, since 99.44% of the body is used, unwinds do not technically die because their individual body parts live on. ''Unwind'' received positive reviews upon release, with praise focusing on the novel's immersive environment and sociological implications. It received the Best Book for Young Adults award. A film adaptation of ''Unwind'' was in production, but Shusterman announced in January 2020 that a television series would be developed instead. A second novel titled ''UnWholly'' was released in August 2012, a third titled ''UnSou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sky Lords
''The Sky Lords'' (1988) is a science fiction novel by the Australian author, John Brosnan. It was published by VGSF and is the first book in the Sky Lords trilogy. It was followed in 1989 by ''War of the Sky Lords'' and in 1991 by ''The Fall of the Sky Lords''. The whole series was one of the first contemporary science fiction serials published in Eastern European countries like Bulgaria and Russia, in the early to mid-1990s, but, after a brief wave of popularity, has not been reprinted in paper since. The e-book division of VGSF, SF Gateway republished the book as an Amazon Kindle Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store. ... e-book. Plot The story is set in the future, after the 'Gene Wars' have turned the Earth into a blighted wasteland. The inhabitants of Earth live a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Kress
Nancy Anne Kress (born January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning 1991 novella ''Beggars in Spain'', which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for ''After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall'', and in 2015 for ''Yesterday's Kin''. In addition to her novels, Kress has written numerous short stories and is a regular columnist for ''Writer's Digest''. She is a regular at Clarion writing workshops. During the winter of 2008/09, Nancy Kress was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Biography Born Nancy Anne Koningisor in Buffalo, New York, she grew up in East Aurora and attended college at SUNY Plattsburgh and graduated with an M.A. in English. Before starting her writing career she taught elementary school and then c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beggars In Spain
''Beggars in Spain'' is a 1993 science fiction novel by American writer Nancy Kress. It was originally published as a novella with the same title in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' and as a limited edition paperback by Axolotl Press in 1991. Kress expanded it, adding three additional parts to the novel, and eventually two sequels, '' Beggars and Choosers'' (1994) and '' Beggars Ride'' (1996). It is held to be an important work, and is often hailed for its predictions of emerging technologies and society. The original novella won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. The novel was also nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, but did not win. Plot introduction ''Beggars in Spain'' and its sequels take place in a future where genetic engineering has become a reality, and society and culture face the consequences of genetic modifications (genemods), particularly in the United States. The story revolves around the existence of the "Sleepless": individuals gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleepless Series
Sleepless may refer to: Film and television * ''Sleepless'' (1957 film), an Egyptian drama film by Salah Abu Seif ** ''La Anam'' (novel), a 1969 Arabic novel by Ihsan Abdel Quddous, which the film adapts * ''Sleepless'' (2001 film), a horror film of 2001 by Dario Argento * ''Sleepless'' (2017 film), a 2017 American crime-drama film * "Sleepless" (''The X-Files''), a 1994 episode of the television show ''The X-Files'' Literature * ''Sleepless'' (novel), a novel by Charlie Huston * ''Sleepless'' (comics), a comic book by Sarah Vaughn and Leila del Duca * The ''Sleepless'' trilogy of novels by Nancy Kress Music * ''Sleepless'' (Kate Rusby album), 1999 * ''Sleepless'' (Jacksoul album), 2000 * ''Sleepless'' (Peter Wolf album), 2002 * ''Sleepless'' (Adept album), 2016 * '' Sleepless: The Concise King Crimson'', an album by King Crimson * "Sleepless" (King Crimson song), 1984 * "Sleepless" (Eric Saade song), 2009 * "Sleepless" (Flume song), 2011 * "Sleepless" (Cazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schismatrix
''Schismatrix'' ()''Schismatrix Plus'', 1995, page viii. is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, originally published in 1985. The story was Sterling's only novel-length treatment of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Five short stories preceded the novel and are published together with it in a 1996 edition entitled ''Schismatrix Plus''. ''Schismatrix'' was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1985, and the British Science Fiction Award in 1986. Plot summary The main character, Abelard Lindsay, is born in the ancient lunar colony ''Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic'', into a family of aristocratic Mechanists, but after being sent to the Shaper's Ring Council, he receives specialized and experimental diplomatic training and gives his loyalty to the Shapers' cause. He, his best friend and fellow Shaper protégé Philip Constantine, and the beautiful and passionate Preservationist Vera Kelland lead an insurgency against the rulers of the republic, who u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Watts (author)
Peter Watts (born January 25, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1991, from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school. Career His first novel ''Starfish'' (1999) reintroduced Lenie Clarke from his short story, "A Niche" (1990); Clarke is a deep-ocean power station worker physically altered for underwater living and the main character in the sequels: ''Maelstrom'' (2001), ''βehemoth: β-Max'' (2004) and ''βehemoth: Seppuku'' (2005). The last two volumes constitute one novel, but were published separately for commercial reasons. ''Starfish'', ''Maelstrom'', and ''βehemoth'' make up a trilogy usually referred to as "Rifters" after the modified humans de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rifter Series
''The Rifter'' was a role-playing game magazine published by Palladium Books Palladium Books is a publisher of role-playing games (RPGs) perhaps best known for its popular, expansive '' Rifts'' series (1990–present). Palladium was founded April 1981 in Detroit, Michigan by current president and lead game designer Kevin .... It was based in Westland, Michigan. Named after its most successful game at the time of debut, Rifts, its content pertained to all the games in the Palladium system, though after the first three years they ceased accepting articles specifically for games based on licenses (Specifically, Robotech, Macross II, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but would have applied to any other licenses acquired), over concerns with the licensing agents. History In 1988 through 1991, Palladium published a small newsprint product called "The Magic of Palladium Books", meant for sale or give-away at stores and conventions. Consisting of seven issues, it had a letter colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Di Filippo
Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954) is an American science fiction writer. He is a regular reviewer for print magazines ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Science Fiction Eye'', ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'', '' Interzone'', and ''Nova Express'', as well as online at ''Science Fiction Weekly''. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Along with Michael Bishop, Di Filippo has published a series of novels under the pseudonym Philip Lawson. Antonio Urias writes that Di Filippo's writing has a "tradition of the bizarre and the weird". His novella '' A Year in the Linear City'' was nominated for a Hugo award. Early life Di Filippo was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Critical reception Antonio Urias praised the collection ''The Steampunk Trilogy'' (1995) in a brisk review, writing in summary that the tripartite book "contains three bizarre and occasionally humorous novels taking the reader from Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribofunk (book)
Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" or "biology" and " punk") is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than mechanical cyberware and information technology. Biopunk is concerned with synthetic biology. It is derived of cyberpunk involving bio-hackers, biotech megacorporations, and oppressive government agencies that manipulate human DNA. Most often keeping with the dark atmosphere of cyberpunk, biopunk generally examines the dark side of genetic engineering and represents the low side of biotechnology. Description Biopunk is a subgenre of science fiction closely related to cyberpunk that focuses on the near-future (most often unintended) consequences of the biotechnology revolution following the invention of recombinant DNA. Biopunk stories explore the struggles of individuals or groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a typically dystopi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
