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Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life. Has covered startup culture, the maker scene, and the marijuana industry as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The Associated Press.

Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life

His first book, , was published this week by Current. I asked him to contribute a few pieces about the biotech underground to run on Boing Boing. Here's the first one. HACK/OPEN: DNA, DIY and the right to do The first time I met Meredith Patterson, she lived in a weird old apartment building plunked down in Pacific Heights, just below where the street rose to an epic view of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate. Christmas trees glowed in the windows of the mansions nearby. Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages - Marcus Wohlsen. Bio-Punk - Toby Litt. Ribofunk - Paul Di Filippo. Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray. White Devils by Paul J. McAuley.

The Movement of Mountains by Michael Blumlein. The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein. Crache - Mark Budz. Clade (novel) Clade is a science fiction novel written by Mark Budz, published in 2003.

Clade (novel)

In Clade, an environmental disaster called the Ecocaust has caused sea levels to rise and causing additional strains on human resources. The government, in response, becomes more restrictive on human freedoms, and this novel explores what happens after the Ecocaust. In Clade, the Ecocaust, an environmental disaster, causes major problems such as rising sea levels and additional strains on human resources. Although civilization recovers from this disaster, they do so at the expense of their previous freedoms. "Polycorps" develop from governments and corporations. The protagonist is a man named Rigo, a Latino from the San Jose clade who wants to move up in society. 2003 Philip K. Jump up ^ "2003 Philip K. The Windup Girl. Setting[edit] The current monarch of Thailand is a child queen.

The Windup Girl

The capital city is below sea level and is protected from flooding by levees and pumps. The three most powerful men in Thailand are the Somdet Chaopraya (regent for the child queen), the chief of the Environment Ministry General Pracha, and the chief of the Trade Ministry Akkarat. Plot[edit] Anderson Lake is an economic hitman and the AgriGen Representative in Thailand. Emiko is a "windup girl," (they refer to themselves as "New People") a humanoid GM organism used as a slave, genetically programmed to seek and obey a master.

Anderson's factory is destroyed by a rogue megodont (a GM elephant used to run the power train). Jaidee Rojjanasukchai, an upright and courageous captain of the white shirts (the armed, enforcement wing of the Environment Ministry), intercepts the dirigible containing, among other things, Anderson's much needed spare tanks, and destroys the contraband. Jaidee submits and makes a public apology. [edit] Xenogenesis series by Octavia E. Butler. Kingdom (Tiber City, #1) by Anderson O'Donnell. Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions - Erik Scott De Bie, Angel Leigh McCoy. Cyberpunk, steampunk and now stitchpunk? Your guide to 11 sci-fi punks. Stitchpunk?

Cyberpunk, steampunk and now stitchpunk? Your guide to 11 sci-fi punks

What's up with stitchpunk? As soon as director Shane Acker's 9 was tagged with that label due to the film's sewn-doll characters and dark fantasy aesthetic, the term was both loved and hated. Some attacked it as silly or unnecessary. But that's to be expected. Each new sci-fi subgenre has started off with a bit of controversy. Cyberpunk The granddaddy of the speculative punk genres, cyberpunk came into being when Bruce Bethke coined the term in a 1983 short story of the same name ... then exploded when William Gibson wrote Neuromancer.

Steampunk Where cyberpunk is futuristic and dark, steampunk is retro, nostalgic and underpinned with a more optimistic view of human potential. Dieselpunk In a historical sense, dieselpunk might be said to fall between cyber and steampunk—the technology is 20th-century stuff: gas engines and skyscrapers. Biopunk Another subgenre set, more often than not, in the near future. Clockpunk Mythpunk Elfpunk Mannerpunk Splatterpunk. Stéphane Beauverger : Biopunk.