High tech meets low life in these genre-defining works that predicted our networked, corporate-dominated world.
Stories confronting our environmental crisis—imagining both the worst possibilities and paths toward hope.
Reality-warping stories that challenge perception, question existence, and leave you rethinking everything.
Grand adventures spanning galaxies, featuring interstellar civilizations, cosmic conflicts, and humanity's reach for the stars.
Civilization has fallen—now what? Stories of survival, rebuilding, and human resilience in the wake of catastrophe.
Life itself becomes technology—stories of genetic engineering, biological modification, and the future of evolution.
As genetic engineering moves from science fiction to reality, biopunk has emerged as one of the genre's most prescient subgenres. These novels imagine futures where biology is as programmable as software, where evolution is directed rather than random, and where the definition of "human" becomes increasingly uncertain.
Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl envisions a world of engineered organisms and corporate-controlled genetic patents. Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake follows genetic engineering to apocalyptic conclusions. Richard Powers' Generosity explores the ethics of happiness genes, while Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood imagines genetic merger with aliens.
These novels engage with questions CRISPR and synthetic biology are making urgently real: Who controls genetic technology? What does it mean to design life? Can we engineer our way out of our problems, or will we create new ones?

Paolo Bacigalupi

Margaret Atwood

Octavia E. Butler

Richard Powers

H.G. Wells

Michael Crichton

Paul Di Filippo

Greg Bear