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 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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Books
- 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 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 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 miniseries by Steve Niles and Justiniano.
- Doktor Sleepless comic by Warren Ellis.
- Ronin, graphic novel by Frank Miller.
Films
- Videodrome (1983)
- Innerspace (1987)
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988)
- Naked Lunch (1991)
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
- Gattaca (1997)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- 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
Anime
- Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Genocyber
- MD Geist
- Roujin Z
- Texhnolyze
- 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