Ribofunk

By: Paul Di Filippo

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Ribofunk contains 11 masterful and surprising works of imagination. In all of them, biology is the science that drives the engine of life and of story: the Protein Police patrol for renegade gene-splicers; part-human sea creatures live in the Great Lakes and clean up toxic spills; a river has become sentient; there is a bodyguard who is part wolverine and a thrill-seeker climbs a skyscraper and gets stuck, literally.

©1996 Paul Di Filippo, This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Outstanding

Outstanding - one of my favorite audiobooks. Excellent stories, perfectly read. A very important book of the biopunk genre.

Awesome Introduction to Biopunk

I'm temped to call this title quintessential Biopunk, but I'm hardly an expert on the genre so it feels a bit like telling stories right out of school to do so. Regardless this is a great listen and well worth the time and cost of admission. The stories are imaginative, engaging, and well preformed and they really paint a picture of the bizarre, frightening, and fantastic place the near future has become. Too that end I also really appreciated that while the stories certainly take place in a dystopia, the author avoided adding a gratuitous amount of bleakness to the setting which I find can often be a failing of the overall 'punk' genres. The only small complaint I have is that the final story felt a little out of place with others, and almost seemed like it should have been included in a different anthology (even though it took place in the same setting as the rest). Still this doesn't diminish the overall quality of the product and I encourage anyone even remotely interested in Biopunk to give it a try.

The world

The world itself was interesting, but almost everything else was terrible. Which is a damn shame, because the world is truly interesting and seeing many different entities should’ve made it a much better experience than what was actually delivered. Which in turn makes me believe that its bane was its characters, who I could not care less about throughout.