Biopunk Stories

Julian Ash is everything they want - perfect face, perfect voice, perfect lies. But behind the fame, he's breaking. In a world where bodies are harvested for beauty and pain is sold as currency, Julian hides a secret: the heart in his chest doesn't beat. Someone else is living with his stolen heart. And Julian is falling for the wrong person-twice. As the countdown to his group's last shot at stardom begins, his health collapses, his emotions fade, and the hunger to feel again becomes unbearable. His rival touches something deeper. His past won't stay buried. And the truth could ruin them all. Julian's body is flawless-engineered for worship-but he can't feel warmth. Can't feel love. Until HE awaken something he shouldn't want anymore. Now he's caught between: A girl who feels too familiar A boy who knows too much A doctor who plays god And a past soaked in blood and beauty. Two lovers. One stolen heart. A choice that could cost everything.

Riddlewood City is a masterpiece of industrial biology, but its glow is fading. A psychic epidemic known as "The Static" is driving citizens to madness, while the infrastructure itself is turning predatory. Sheridan Cavendish, the city's most gifted yet unstable Resonator, lives in self-imposed isolation to drown out the city's screams. When a series of "biotic murders"-where victims are fused into the city's machinery-occurs, Sheridan is forced out of the shadows. Accompanied by Dr. Alistair Finch, a man who views the city as a machine rather than a miracle, Sheridan discovers a terrifying truth: The Obsidian Hand isn't just sabotaging the city; they are trying to "wake" the Vitaeon. As Sheridan descends into the glowing, visceral depths of the Undercity, he realizes the "Static" isn't a disease-it's a scream for help. He must choose between silencing the city to save the people, or listening to the horror that his own family helped create.

THE SWARM: Nymph of the Lower Tier The drone dies first. Then the walls begin to breathe. When Captain Morn's crew descends into the forbidden lower tier of the living planet known as the Swarm, they expect damage, missing equipment, maybe survivors. They do not expect her. A nameless girl lives inside the warm, shifting labyrinth - guarded by membranes, spores, and a system that does not want to let her go. She cannot speak their language. She does not know whether the strangers have come to save her or take her away. The crew calls her Nymph. The Swarm calls her something else. As pirates close in and an ancient cycle begins to repeat, one question becomes more dangerous than the creatures moving beneath the walls: What if the girl they came to rescue is the only thing keeping the entire planet alive? A dark science-fantasy story about a living world, memory without freedom, rescue that feels like abduction, and a girl who was never meant to choose. This story is also being published on Royal Road by the same author, Liia Denwer.

Em um continente onde a magia é operada como engenharia e a natureza é monopolizado pelo Estado, a imponente Confederação de Mairata dita as regras da vida e da morte. Através do Supremo Xamanato e da Árvore-Mãe, a Capital controla o Âmbar-Vivo ( a seiva luminosa que move o mundo ) mantendo os povos do deserto submissos através de uma sede artificial e de falsos milagres biotecnológicos. Moara é uma filha da poeira de Yby-Soró. Brilhante e calculista, ela usa a matemática não para louvar a Capital, mas para desvendar suas mentiras. Quando ela intercepta dados que provam que o Estado está planejando a "Colheita Gélida"(um genocídio orquestrado para aniquilar todas as lideranças perfiféricas), ela se torna a mulher mais caçada do continente. Para sobreviver e espalhar a verdade, Moara forma uma aliança improvável com Jabori, um soldado da elite desiludido que, após ser marcado pelo sistema, decide desertar. Armado com uma espada forjada a partir de sucata de antigas escavadeiras radioativas, ele se torna o escudo letal do qual a mente de Moara precisa. Caçados pelas implacáveis Sombras de Itã-Oca, assassinos silenciosos do Império, a dupla cruza desertos tóxicos e ruínas esquecidas em uma corrida desesperada contra o tempo. Eles precisam invadir a cidade de Ilú-Mandacaru, impedir o massacre iminente e hackear a própria rede orgânica da Capital para despertar a população. Moara e Jabori estão prestes a provar ao Império que a verdadeira força do continente não vem das folhas intocáveis da Árvore-Mãe, mas da fúria, da ferrugem e do sangue escondidos no chão.

Kaelin was bred for control, a subject engineered with a fragile spine augmented by ruthless technology. When the Cradle burns and her world shatters, she escapes into the inhospitable wasteland of Ashkaru with a silent, feverish child whose eyes see too much. The Drifting Truth, an old patched ship, becomes her sanctuary - but the Core reclamation teams are relentless, their reach stretching into the broken edges of space. As alliances shift and secrets emerge, Kaelin must navigate a maze of trust, technology, and survival. Will she protect those she loves, or become the weapon they made her to be?

What if you were a twenty-three year old pure-blooded human, a medical professor and suffering from greed. And you can't resist the satisfaction of extra digits in your bank - So, you sell out a bag or two of your blood. That is Mio Tsumugi. What if you were broken from a divorce? You agreed to a futile marriage that altered your biologically permanently. What can you do in the seas of depression? Your half a plant now, your wife left you for another man. Your supposed to be twenty-six this year, you look twenty-four. So, you sell your extra seeds despite already having more then enough in the bank. That is Perdita Esposito. Careless decisions, comes heavy consequences. Neither expected a call from a lab their biological essences were used to artificially create a living being. Both couldn't leave that innocent being alone either. How will they navigate parenthood while fixing their own chaos?

A young girl is brutally abducted by a bloodthirsty grizzly, forcing a group of scientists to mop up a genetic engineering operation that is out of control, threatening any and all who enter the woods. One question remains: are the animals really dangerous for no reason at all or does their enhanced intelligence simply make them recognize something damning about human nature that needs to be understood before it's too late? Harmonious coexistence with an emerging highly-intelligent species competing for dominance over the earth or total destruction of humans and animals alike? Those are the two options now. Two groups of scientific researchers are sent to a forest where bear attacks are frequent in order to study what is happening only to find themselves attacked and outsmarted (in part) by the animals themselves. Two environmental action groups also find themselves at odds over the fate of the dangerously genetically-enhanced creatures. One group wants to see the beasts wiped out completely and the other wants to preserve them at all costs, even at the expense of human life. The two sides are locked in an impasse, unable to resolve their differences in an amiable way which leads to ever-increasing tension, animosity, kidnapping and murder. Entire forests are quarantined in an attempt to control and contain the beasts but soon holes are discovered in the operation as key players start disappearing in addition to animals eluding their hunters, fighting back and changing the field of battle to their own terms. Ambushing their pursuers on more than one occasion. As the "pro-beast" and "pro-human" sides chase to their own interests with the unfortunate bears caught in the middle (struggling to establish themselves in a human dominated world), the animals learn more and more to rely on their expanding awareness to survive and thrive in an entirely new world...to evolution shattering effect!

This is Lagos-there are no Good Samaritans here. Help always comes with a price, and nobody gives something for nothing." ​For university student Raymond Baoku, survival used to mean coding, passing exams, and avoiding campus bullies. But when his father-a brilliant genetics professor-is brutally assassinated, Raymond's ordinary life is burned to the ash. ​He inherits a dangerous secret: a perfected bio-cybernetic nanochip embedded in his neck, carrying the key to stabilizing a rogue race of genetically engineered, blood-thirsty super-soldiers known as the Titans. ​Suddenly thrust into a deadly cross-state manhunt from the neon-lit streets of Lagos to the ancient terrain of Ife, Raymond goes from being the prey to the ultimate predator. The monsters hunting him think he's just a helpless student. ​They're about to find out what happens when the lion fights back. ​ A fast-paced, action-packed Africanfuturist Urban Fantasy Thriller. CHECK OUT MY UPDATES: Especially every Tuesday and Thursday

** 2020 version of the Watty 2014 Winner** 'My name is Arturo Basilides. I am an orphan living in the slums of Medio City - the capital of a nation ravaged by a war which was won by extremists. Offered a choice between slavery and disenfranchisement, we exist in an underclass so disconnected we effectively inhabit a different era. Daily life involves scavenging, theft and substance abuse with a bunch of misfits who are somehow still in one piece after years of abandonment. I am a natural born fighter and although I despise warfare, I must witness the downfall of those bastard elites while fulfilling my romantic intentions with the forever unattainable girl of my dreams.' Skye City is a biopunk adventure set in a world where science is indistinguishable from magic and oppression is near-inescapable. Technology has created a newer, 'superior' form of human and genetically engineered monstrosities are as terrifying as anything encountered in your nightmares. The underclass have been underestimated and as they fight back the boundary between freedom fighter and terrorist becomes increasingly blurred. Meanwhile, the drug-induced haze of a traumatised mind places a question mark over the meaning of reality.

Short Story in the Malfunction Trilogy Up until now, Ella has managed to avoid the single most important but most dangerous aspect of her life as a biobot. The thing she was created to do: going to the ravaged surface to fend off the aliens that turned the planet into a desolate, frozen waste. It's her first mission Topside, and it might be her last. Called one of J.E. Purrazzi's best works, this short story features characters from the Malfunction trilogy and takes place in the same universe.

Helmut Krauthammer, a regular German citizen, wakes up one morning to find a carrot sprouting from his belly button. Little does he know that his curious condition will become the solution to a global fruit and veg shortage.

Nester is a nest layer. He is from the Bio punk wastelands of the northern Marsh. He has one thought "Protect the nest."

Liam Carter was dying-until death became his rebirth. A terminally ill prodigy, Liam gambles his last breath on a forbidden experiment to force human evolution. Instead of a cure, he wakes in Vareth, a broken world where the ruins of advanced civilizations rot under a creeping plague called the Hollowing. His body is no longer his own-golden veins pulse beneath his skin, his eyes burn with fractal patterns, and his cells adapt to survive anything. But Vareth has been dying for centuries. The Hollowing twists life into abominations, and the last "Chosen" who tried to save it became the very monsters they fought. Now, as ancient obelisks hum with forgotten power and bioluminescent nightmares stalk the wastes, Liam must decide: Will he evolve fast enough to save this world-or become the next Harvester?

1. Immortal: "No young man believes he shall ever die," said Stek, who had turned forty the week before. "But we both know that's not true, don't we? Just think of all that we could achieve if we didn't grow old and die just as we are getting started!" "What are you talking about?" Drexler asked, mystified. "Immortality..." 2. To Boldly Go: Humanity discovers that only women can explore deep space, and remain sane 3. Turning Point: An alternate history around Joan of Arc 4. My Day at the Beach: - a post apocalyptic short. Four stories for the 2016 Ooorah Smackdown

An island materializes overnight. Death row inmates become human missiles fired into hell.Marcus-Black medic who heals at the cellular level, condemned for murder. Takashi-Asian commander who buys superpowers with mysterious credits, betrayed by his own. Enemies by prejudice, allies by necessity. Meanwhile, Dr. Elena Vasquez-brilliant, seductive scientist-builds humanity's first portal while deceiving world leaders. Her Pandora Box promises salvation but delivers something far darker. On an island where reality breaks, where medieval knights hunt with lightning dragons, where angels measure power in numbered circles-two broken men forge an unbreakable bond. But must every story have a happy end ?

Riley has been unsuccessfully working as a customer success associate for a big-name tech company for several years. One day while on his lunch break, a mysterious tome appears to him. It follows him, calls to him, and eventually opens his eyes to the magical world buried beneath our modernity. With the help of his friend Abel, the two go on a quest to unlock the true powers of Nature. But not everyone will agree with their journey and enemies hunt them through the forests they seed.

#TeamOoorah and the rest of the Tevun-Krus crew return with the first issue of 2K17. It's NanoPunk, and it's badass.

It's 1915, the Great War is about to end, when word gets out about another German plan. Aleksandar Hohenberg and Deryn Sharp, both fresh from their latest mission for the Society, are tasked with destroying the Paris Gun, a machine capable of destroying a whole city. Reminder: You won't understand a thing in this story unless you read Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series.