Cyberpunk versus biopunk

This opposition of mechanical versus biological augmentation then prompts McHale to conclude in regard to his cyberpunk poetics that there are two sets of posthuman conceits employed by the authors: ‘We might call the first set, corresponding to the Mech option, cyberpunk proper, and the second set, corresponding to the Shaper option, “bio-punk”’ (ibid.).

Lars Schmeink, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Liquid Modernity, p. 24

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