bitek

Eliot's Wasteland isn't about flowers, the finest of Okigbo's poems and the finest of Okot p'bitek's aren't about flowers at all.

Vanguard News 2009

Disease and genetic defects are things of the past, and new “bitek” (short for biotechnology) even allows for “affinity” (telepathy) between those who choose to have the affinity gene spliced into their DNA.

Review: The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton | Missions Unknown 2010

It has divided into two strands, the traditional Adamists who use technological starships and cybernetic implants, and the telepathic Edenists, who employ bitek - biological technology - to create living starships and sentient space habitats.

Wertzone Classics: The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton Adam Whitehead 2009

It has divided into two strands, the traditional Adamists who use technological starships and cybernetic implants, and the telepathic Edenists, who employ bitek - biological technology - to create living starships and sentient space habitats.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

The affinity gene revolutionises science, and when combined with the growing industry of biological technology - bitek - it seems to promise a brighter, less technologically and materially-focused future for the human race.

A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton Adam Whitehead 2009

The affinity gene revolutionises science, and when combined with the growing industry of biological technology - bitek - it seems to promise a brighter, less technologically and materially-focused future for the human race.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

The first story, 'Sonnie's Edge', shows the dark side of affinity as it is used for a rather unpleasant new bitek version of bear-baiting, with an absolute killer ending.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

The Reunified Christian Church is deeply concerned about the implications of bitek and affinity, for with a person able to call upon the immediate support of thousands of other human minds to any crisis or problem, they grow up better-adjusted and in less need of psychological reassurance.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

In 2090 the Jovian Sky Power Corporation begins mining helium-3 from the atmosphere of Jupiter and builds a bitek space station, Eden, as a cheap alternative to a traditional but expensive hollowed-out asteroid habitat.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

'Candy Buds' is one of Hamilton's best-known short stories, set on Tropicana, the only Adamist world where bitek remains legal by the late 24th Century, where the richest man on the planet finds himself unusually touched by the plight of a young girl he was planning to exploit for her astonishing discovery.

Archive 2009-08-01 Adam Whitehead 2009