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biopunk
Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" and "punk") is a science fiction genre that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than information technology.
==Description==
Biopunk science fiction is a subgenre of cyberpunk fiction that focuses on the near-future (most often unintended) consequences of the biotechnology revolution following the discovery of recombinant DNA. Biopunk stories explore the struggles of individuals or groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a typically dystopian backdrop of totalitarian governments and megacorporations which misuse biotechnologies as means of social control and profiteering. Unlike cyberpunk, it builds not on information technology, but on synthetic biology. Like in postcyberpunk fiction, individuals are usually modified and enhanced not with cyberware, but by genetic manipulation.〔 A common feature of biopunk fiction is the "black clinic", which is a laboratory, clinic, or hospital that performs illegal, unregulated, or ethically-dubious biological modification and genetic engineering procedures. Many features of biopunk fiction have their roots in William Gibson's ''Neuromancer'', one of the first cyberpunk novels.
One of the prominent writers in this field is Paul Di Filippo, though he called his collection of such stories ribofunk, a blend of "ribosome" and "funk". In ''RIBOFUNK: The Manifesto'', Di Filippo wrote:
Di Filippo argues that precursors of ribofunk fiction include H. G. Wells' ''The Island of Doctor Moreau''; Julian Huxley's ''The Tissue Culture King''; some of David H. Keller's stories, Damon Knight's ''Natural State and Other Stories''; Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's ''Gravy Planet''; novels of T. J. Bass and John Varley; Greg Bear's ''Blood Music'' and Bruce Sterling's ''Schismatrix''.〔
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