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

Themes labels used: humanity, ethics, perfection, power, privilege, class inequality, bodily autonomy, identity, morality, eugenics, technology and society, medical ethics, social control, discrimination, life and death, progress and consequences, vanity, fear of change, human nature

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Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen

Marc Elsberg · 2016

A biotech thriller in which genetic engineering links a mysterious death, altered crops, and enhanced children worldwide.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genetic modification · designer babies · biotechnology · bioterrorism · global conspiracy · gene editing · human enhancement · bioethics

Themes labels: ethics · bioethics · scientific progress · human enhancement · parental choice · nature versus intervention · power and control · corporate monopoly · global inequality · scientific responsibility · fear of future · morality of experimentation · food security · genetic destiny

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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

Themes labels: reproductive rights · bodily autonomy · privacy · consent · ethics of science · bioethics · eugenics · discrimination · equity · agency · identity · parenthood · class inequality · government overreach · playing god · fame and privacy · moral ambiguity · selection vs chance · genetic determinism · stalking

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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

Themes labels: humanity · ethics · evolution · compassion · intelligence · environment · climate change · genetic responsibility · scientific hubris · free will · species survival · moral dilemma · unintended consequences · identity · what it means to be human

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Off Target

Eve Smith · 2022

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

Why this is here

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

Themes labels: ethics · eugenics · fertility · infertility · motherhood · parental choice · medical intervention · nature versus nurture · identity · perfectionism · power and control · scientific responsibility · body autonomy · consequences · deception · consumer medicine · social pressure · playing god · disability · human experimentation

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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Premise labels: experimental rejuvenation · cloning · identity crisis · human experimentation · ethical dilemma · body swap · immortality quest · aging · transhumanism · medical experiment · life extension · double self

Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · memory · aging · mortality · ethics · medical ethics · scientific ethics · transhumanism · selfhood · body image · beauty standards · disfigurement · disability · race · privilege · legacy · love · family · greed · selfishness · continuity of self · soul

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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

Themes labels: discrimination · equality · meritocracy · individualism · collectivism · community · ethics of care · tribalism · privilege · social stratification · genetic ethics · human nature · responsibility · resentment · envy · acceptance · tolerance · economic philosophy · social contract · identity

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Machine Man

Max Barry · 2009

After losing a leg, a socially awkward engineer pursues ever more radical prosthetic upgrades, drawing corporate and personal fallout.

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Premise labels: body augmentation · prosthetics · transhumanism · cyborg transformation · self-improvement · human-machine interface · corporate exploitation · weaponization · technology dependence · body modification

Themes labels: humanity · selfhood · body autonomy · transhumanism · bioethics · technology ethics · self-improvement · body horror · corporate power · military-industrial complex · consumerism · disability · identity · convenience versus humanity · free will · limits of technology · social alienation · moral boundaries

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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

Themes labels: immortality · genetic control · free will · determinism · stagnation · boredom · power abuse · class hierarchy · eugenics · controlled evolution · humanity · mortality · ethics of reproduction · conscience · pharmaceutical dependence · terror of death · natural selection · uncertainty · social control · revolution · survival

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Change Agent

Daniel Suarez · 2017

In 2045, an Interpol agent hunting illegal gene editors is transformed into the criminal kingpin he’s chasing.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene editing · identity theft · body swap · fugitive on the run · illegal labs · black market biotech · biocrime · human enhancement

Themes labels: identity · nature vs nurture · bioethics · human enhancement · genetic inequality · technology and society · cruelty · corruption · human trafficking · moral limits of science · accountability · class divide

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Michael Crichton · 2006

A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene patenting · biotech ethics · corporate science · legal conflict · transgenic animals · genetic research · bioethics

Themes labels: bioethics · intellectual property · patent law · body ownership · consent · scientific responsibility · commercialization of science · corporate greed · medical ethics · law and science · research ethics · human identity · animal rights · surveillance · moral ambiguity · unintended consequences · public policy · sociopolitical critique

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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.

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Premise labels: near future · genetic engineering · global plague · post-collapse survival · corporate power · bioengineered humans · biotech disaster

Themes labels: climate change · corporate corruption · environmental destruction · humanity · survival · science and ethics · biotechnology · genetic manipulation · feminism · religion · class inequality · consumerism · mortality · apocalypse · hope · human nature · morality · ecocriticism · animal studies · immortality

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Suicide Club

Rachel Heng · 2018

In a near-future NYC where immortality is rationed, a model citizen is pulled toward a rebel group that rejects eternal life.

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Premise labels: immortality · life extension · illegal death · health-obsessed society · genetic selection · body enhancement · underground resistance · family rupture

Themes labels: immortality · mortality · choice · bodily autonomy · health culture · beauty standards · government control · class inequality · ageism · family · freedom · quality of life · death taboo · ethical dilemma · wellness extremity · life worth living

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