Biopunk

Cutting-edge future tech—both legal and underground—is under the microscope in Marcus Wohlsen's account of the nascent movement to hack DNA in the manner of rogue programmers tinkering with less slippery lines of code. Profiles of mostly young DIY biologists alternate with speculations on what they might accomplish, for good or ill.

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

advertisement