Reed, Robert. Marrow (Tom Doherty Associates, 2000).
High-biotech near-immortal humans (and others) inhabit
and explore a mysterious world-sized starship.
Shirow, Masamune. Appleseed (Dark Horse, 1995).
Graphic novel series that coined the term bioroid; adventures
of two cops in a bio-cyberpunk utopia threatened by
terrorists. Book 3: The Scales of Prometheus has especially
strong biotech themes.
Smith, Cordwainer. Norstrilia (Ibooks, 2005). Features a
decadent interstellar society, including long-lived aristocrats
and bio-engineered uplifted-animal servants, the
“underpeople.” His short stories (frequently anthologized,
and collected in The Best of Cordwainer Smith) often feature
biotech themes in the same Instrumentality universe.
Sterling, Bruce. Holy Fire (Bantam-Doubleday-Dell,
1996). The transhuman future of health care; shows the
lengths senior citizens may go to secure longevity, and the
cost.
Sterling, Bruce. Schismatrix Plus (Ace, 1996). Novel and
stories about a transhuman solar system torn by conflict
between the high-biotech Shapers and cyborg Mechanists.
Stirling, S.M. Drakon (Baen, 1996). A radically genetically-
engineered agent from a fascist alternate world
arrives on Earth and prepares it for conquests; one of the
last in Stirling’s Draka series. A good combination of
biotech and an infinite-worlds setting.
Swann, S. Andrew. Forests of the Night (DAW, 1993).
Detective story in a world where human-animal transgenic
hybrids are second-class citizens.
VanDermeer, Jeff. Veniss Underground (Prime Books,
2003). Another example of the New Weird science-fantasy
genre, set in a decadent far-future city where artists are bioengineers
and uplifted