Biopunk
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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. {{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.