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-'''Biopunk''' (a [[portmanteau word]] combining [[biology]] and [[punk]]) 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 last two decades of the twentieth century. Unlike [[cyberpunk]], it builds not on informational technology but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very [[chromosome]]s. The most characteristic 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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Sept 2004]+'''Biopunk''' (a [[portmanteau word]] combining [[biology]] and [[punk]]) 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 last two decades of the twentieth century. Unlike [[cyberpunk]], it builds not on informational technology but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very [[chromosome]]s. The most characteristic 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.
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 +===Books===
 +*[[Moreau series|''Moreau'' series]] by [[S. Andrew Swann]]
 +*''[[The Eyes of Heisenberg]]'' by [[Frank Herbert]]
 +*''Ribofunk'' by [[Paul Di Filippo]]
 +*''[[A Place So Foreign and Eight More]]'' by [[Cory Doctorow]]
 +*''[[Darwin's Radio]]'' and its sequel by [[Greg Bear]]
 +*''American Meat'' and ''Reality Bites'' by [[Stuart Moore]]
 +*''[[Holy Fire (novel)|Holy Fire]]'' by [[Bruce Sterling]]
 +*''[[Brave New World]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]
 +*''[[Signs of Life]]'' by [[M. John Harrison]]
 +*''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' by [[Margaret Atwood]]
 +*The ''[[Xenogenesis]]'' trilogy by [[Octavia E. Butler]]
 +*''Frek and the Elixir'' by [[Rudy Rucker]]
 +*''[[Blood Music]]'' by [[Greg Bear]]
 +*''[[Clade (novel)|Clade]]'' and ''Crache'' by [[Mark Budz]]
 +*''The [[Bas-Lag]] series'' by [[China Mieville]]
 +*''[[Fairyland]] by [[Paul J. McAuley]]
 +*''[[Invasive Procedures]]'' by [[Orson Scott Card]] and Aaron Johnston
 +*''Frameshift'' by [[Robert J. Sawyer]]
 +*''[[Maximum Ride]]'' by [[James Patterson]]
 +*''[[The Bladerunner]]'' by [[Alan E. Nourse]]
 + 
 +===Comics and manga===
 +*[[Biomega]] manga by [[Tsutomu Nihei]].
 +*[[Creeper (comics)|Creeper]] miniseries by [[Steve Niles]] and Justiniano.
 +*[[Doktor Sleepless]] comic by [[Warren Ellis]].
 +*[[Ronin (comic book series)|''Ronin'']], graphic novel by [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]].
 + 
 +===Films===
 +*''[[Videodrome]]'' (1983)
 +*''[[Innerspace]]'' (1987)
 +*''[[Tetsuo: The Iron Man]]'' (1988)
 +*''[[Naked Lunch (film)|Naked Lunch]]'' (1991)
 +*''[[Tetsuo II: Body Hammer]]'' (1992)
 +*''[[Gattaca]]'' (1997)
 +*''[[eXistenZ]]'' (1999)
 +*''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' (2002)
 +*''[[Code 46]]'' (2003)
 +*''[[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]'' (2004)
 +*''[[Aeon Flux]]'' (2005)
 +*''[[The Island]]'' (2005)
 +*''[[UltraViolet]]'' (2006)
 +*''[[Children of Men]]'' (2006)
 + 
 +===Television===
 +*''[[Dark Angel (TV Series)|Dark Angel]]''
 +*''[[Spider-Man Unlimited]]''
 +*''[[Heroes (TV Series)|Heroes]]''
 +*''[[Farscape]]''
 + 
 +===Anime===
 +*''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' and ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''
 +*''Genocyber''
 +*''[[MD Geist]]''
 +*''[[Roujin Z]]''
 +*''[[Texhnolyze]]''
 +*''[[gungrave (anime) |Gungrave]]''
 +*''[[Ergo Proxy]]''
 + 
 +===Computer and video games===
 +*''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
 +*''[[BioShock]]''
 +*''[[Deus Ex]]''
 +*''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War]]''
 +*''[[Vangers]]''
 +*''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''
 +*''[[The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay]]''
 +*''[[Resident Evil]]''
 +{{GFDL}}

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Biopunk (a portmanteau word combining biology and punk) 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 last two decades of the twentieth century. Unlike cyberpunk, it builds not on informational technology but on biology, the other dominating scientific field of the end of the twentieth century. Individuals are enhanced not by mechanical means, but by genetic manipulation of their very chromosomes. The most characteristic 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.

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