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Tone labels used: thought-provoking, horrifying, poignant, dark, terrifying, sweet, bittersweet, hopeful, striking, unsettling, haunting, intelligent

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

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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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Tone labels: chilling · disturbing · thought-provoking · tense · urgent · uneasy · emotional · gripping · plausible · horrifying · heartbreaking · dark · suspenseful

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

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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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Tone labels: tense · suspenseful · thought-provoking · disturbing · unnerving · urgent · grim · creepy · exciting · serious · beklemmend · thriller-like

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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1659

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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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Tone labels: dark · unsettling · creepy · horrifying · philosophical · thought-provoking · melancholic · tense · claustrophobic · disturbing · emotional · haunting · oddly tender

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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1681

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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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Tone labels: thought-provoking · philosophical · serious · dark · morally uneasy · tense · unsettling

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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1681

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Perfect People

Peter James · 2011

A grieving couple turns to designer-baby science to avoid another genetic tragedy, only to face terrifying consequences.

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Tone labels: chilling · creepy · thought-provoking · heartbreaking · tense · disturbing · uneasy · fast-paced · emotional · thrilling

Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · hereditary disease · grieving parents · ethical dilemma · scientific experiment · eugenics

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1690

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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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Tone labels: tense · suspenseful · thought-provoking · anxiety-inducing · emotional · scary · urgent · relentless · hopeful

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

Reader-connected: no

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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.

Why this is here

Tone labels: dystopian · uneasy · creepy · bleak · philosophical · thought-provoking · suspenseful · bizarre · cold · somber · contemplative

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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1733

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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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Tone labels: dark · gritty · chilling · sad · thought-provoking · philosophical · haunting · sterile · clinical · poignant · beautiful (mixed) · quiet

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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.1734

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Tone labels: haunting · disturbing · thought-provoking · bittersweet · bleak · unsettling · intellectual · lyrical · compulsive · philosophical · strange

Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

Reader-connected: no

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The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

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Tone labels: thought-provoking · disturbing · unsettling · tense · morally serious · dystopian · prescient · spooky · melancholy · frustrating

Premise labels: surrogacy · IVF · genetic experiment · bioethics · hybrid human · secret experiment · ethical dilemma · otherness

Reader-connected: no

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You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Amor Towles · 2019

A man visits a futuristic fertility lab where genetic choices reveal possible lives for his unborn child.

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Tone labels: creepy · thought-provoking · unsettling · chilling · introspective · slightly humorous · tense · curious · ambiguous

Premise labels: genetic engineering · designer babies · fertility clinic · parental choice · future prediction · nature vs nurture · free will · ethics of choice

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Tone labels: dark · thought-provoking · chilling · heartwarming · inspiring · tense · disturbing · philosophical · emotional · creepy

Premise labels: clone identity · human cloning · organ donor · coming of age · human rights · dehumanization · escape

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1754

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