#ribofunk

Debt collector

Ribofunk + GURPS Biotech is making me realize that no major piece of media has taken biopunk/biotech fiction to the levels that it ought to.

Heartbroken that I can’t recommend Ribofunk on my weird fiction blog, but too many of the stories are just remixes of other genres with a lot of funky sci-fi terminology thrown in. There’s some good stuff in there – Distributed Mind is great, and some stories from the POV of splices are quite good – but overall a lot of the short stories could be easily re-written without the sci-fi stuff and aren’t actually all that interesting, the detective ones being the worst offenders. It’s mostly a fun read, especially since Di Filippo is very good at creating plausible lingo and a lot of small worldbuilding connections between narratives, but the core ideas are hardly groundbreaking or brilliant.

The tropes had been expertly reverse-engineered from a sampling of meditating monks: in the case of Jinx’s drink, from the mind of the Dalai Lama himself. In a minute or so, the world took on a shimmering translucence, and I felt connected to the whole universe. Nothing mattered, but everything counted.

Respeccing

Gestalt syndrome

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