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Premise labels used: genetic engineering, body modification, human enhancement, life extension, bioethics, future humanity, perfectionism, medical intervention

Setting labels used: near future, distant future, alternate future, our world, futuristic Earth, global society, undersea setting, asteroid belt

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Eve Smith · 2022

A desperate would-be mother makes a dangerous genetic choice, then faces the fallout of a near-future bioethics crisis.

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Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · infertility · pregnancy secret · moral dilemma · medical ethics · unintended consequences · cover-up · reproductive technology · perfect child

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · global · UK · medical future · dystopian future · scientific future · worldwide crisis

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Upgrade

Blake Crouch · 2022

A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genome hacking · human enhancement · superhuman transformation · upgrade humanity · ethical dilemma · save humanity · genetic modification · family legacy · scientific conspiracy · illegal research · future crisis

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic

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Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

C.M. Kosemen · 2008

An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.

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Premise labels: future history · human evolution · alien conquest · genetic modification · posthuman future · space colonization · terraforming · speculative biology · cosmic punishment

Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality

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The Eyes of Heisenberg

Frank Herbert · 2002

In a far-future biotech dystopia, a rare embryo could upend an immortal ruling class built on genetic control.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · immortality · controlled reproduction · eugenic society · rebel embryo · sterile elite · class control · genetic surveillance · bioengineered hierarchy · resistance movement

Setting labels: far future · distant future · dystopian future · Earth · Seatac Megalopolis · Pacific Northwest · controlled society · in vitro reproduction · genetically engineered world · immortal ruling class

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Assignment in Eternity

Robert A. Heinlein · 2000 · Assignment in Eternity

Four early Heinlein stories explore superhuman potential, psychic powers, time travel, and the question of what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: superhuman potential · human evolution · ESP · time travel · parallel universes · genetically engineered beings · human rights

Setting labels: future Earth · near future · 1940s pulp era · space travel · moon setting · alternate timelines · parallel worlds · laboratory setting · courtroom setting

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Baby X

Kira Peikoff · 2024

In a near-future DNA marketplace, a biosecurity guard races to protect a star’s genetic identity as a shocking claim upends everything.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · DNA theft · designer babies · reproductive technology · biosecurity · black market DNA · pregnancy uncertainty · future reproduction · bodily autonomy · genetic selection

Setting labels: near future · future United States · 2050s · dystopian future · lab conception · high-tech future · near-distant future · post-phone society · digital surveillance future · world of celebrity culture

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Setting labels: distant future · post-apocalyptic · post-extinction · Earth · isolated communities · small tribes · far future · millennial timespan · geological eons · post-catastrophic world

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Beggars in Spain

Nancy Kress · 1994 · Sleepless

Genetically engineered to need no sleep, a gifted minority triggers envy, backlash, and a battle over who owes whom.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · sleep deprivation · superhuman elite · class divide · designer children · posthuman society

Setting labels: near future · United States · orbiting space station · future Earth · alternate future · space habitat · embryo engineering era

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Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 2014 · Firefall

A baseline biologist is pulled into a posthuman pilgrimage toward the sun, where faith, free will, and alien contact collide.

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Premise labels: posthumanism · first contact · space journey · baseline human · alien signal · religion and science · free will · consciousness · hive mind · genetic engineering

Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · 22nd century · Earth · Oregon desert · deep space · Solar System · spaceship · monastery · dystopian future · posthuman future

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space colonization · undersea habitation · ice age · greenhouse effect · ozone depletion · magnetic reversal · ruined planet · extreme environments

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Distance: 0.1720

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