| Definition | a subgenre of science fiction which focuses on the societal effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering |
| OED requirements | antedating 1993 |
| Earliest cite | in Science-Fiction Studies |
| Comment | Bill Mullins submitted a 2002 cite from "R.U. Sirius" in Rolling Stone.
We would like cites of any date from other authors. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
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| 1993 Sci. Fiction Stud. Nov. 463 | Cyberpunk and ‘biopunk’ writers ‘often foreground [the] metafictional potential of paraspace’ by developing an analogy between the author of the text and the author of the cyberspace or paraspace world. |