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Ribofunk + GURPS Biotech is making me realize that no major piece of media has taken biopunk/biotech fiction to the levels that it ought to.

like, I can't be the only one that's noticed this right? Splicing animal DNA with humans is only the beginning, where are the movies with specialized human species and organic utilities? Where are the civilizations that are so completely warped by biotech that they're essentially alien?

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Heartbroken that I can’t recommend Ribofunk on my weird fiction blog, but too many of the stories are just remixes of other genres with a lot of funky sci-fi terminology thrown in. There’s some good stuff in there – Distributed Mind is great, and some stories from the POV of splices are quite good – but overall a lot of the short stories could be easily re-written without the sci-fi stuff and aren’t actually all that interesting, the detective ones being the worst offenders. It’s mostly a fun read, especially since Di Filippo is very good at creating plausible lingo and a lot of small worldbuilding connections between narratives, but the core ideas are hardly groundbreaking or brilliant.

But yeah, read Distributed Mind even if the rest of the collection doesn’t sound appealing, it’s brilliant.

#eng #fandomposting #ribofunk #paul di filippo #i quite liked his cosmocopia though #so i'll probably try something else #a year in the linear city sounds very promising #the written word

Level background by Alexandr Iwaac from the game "Exit: A Biodelic Adventure" we are making. Meet the lovecraftian(ish) shoggoth, a biocomputer with mutable intertacles. Player can change shoggoth's tentacles into different interfaces using genes downloaded from a bioflash drive.

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The tropes had been expertly reverse-engineered from a sampling of meditating monks: in the case of Jinx’s drink, from the mind of the Dalai Lama himself. In a minute or so, the world took on a shimmering translucence, and I felt connected to the whole universe. Nothing mattered, but everything counted.

Paul Di Filippo, Ribofunk

#always loved that last sentence #paul di filippo #ribofunk #cyberpunk #quotes #science fiction

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