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"RNA world" as a book category gathers works that center on the idea, evidence and implications of an early biological era when RNA — rather than DNA and proteins — carried genetic information and catalyzed chemistry. It includes popular-science histories and primers on prebiotic chemistry and molecular evolution, technical texts and lab memoirs for researchers, and speculative fiction or biopunk that imagines RNA-based life, synthetic ribozymes, or origin-of-life scenarios on Earth and elsewhere. Recurring themes are ribozymes and protocells, the experimental search for plausible prebiotic pathways, astrobiological and philosophical questions about what counts as life, and the ethical and technological consequences of engineering RNA systems. The category appeals to readers interested in molecular biology, origin-of-life debates, synthetic biology, and science-driven fiction that probes how life might begin, change, or be recreated.

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