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Hideaki Sena

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Premise labels used: mitochondrial consciousness, organ transplant horror, cellular evolution, scientific horror, grief-driven experiment, host-parasite conflict, human evolution threat, body takeover

Setting labels used: Japan, 1990s Japan, laboratory setting, hospital setting, medical research setting, academic setting, pharmaceutical research, cellular-scale reality

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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

Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment

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Passage

Connie Willis · 2001

A hospital psychologist and a neurologist probe near-death experiences, only to uncover a mystery that grows far stranger and deeper.

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Premise labels: near-death experiences · medical mystery · scientific investigation · afterlife inquiry · drug-induced experience · brain science · hospital research

Setting labels: hospital setting · Denver · late 1990s · medical environment · lab setting

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Distance: 0.2272

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Edge

Kōji Suzuki · 2012

A journalist investigates global disappearances as math, physics, and reality itself begin to fail.

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Premise labels: missing persons · apocalyptic collapse · quantum horror · reality breakdown · scientific anomaly · cosmic horror · investigation

Setting labels: Japan · United States · California · Hawaii · worldwide · scientific institutions · media production

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Distance: 0.2350

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Parasite

Mira Grant · 2013 · Parasitology

In a near-future world cured by implanted tapeworms, an amnesiac woman uncovers a frightening medical conspiracy.

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Premise labels: bioengineered parasite · medical breakthrough gone wrong · body takeover · medical conspiracy · near-future health tech

Setting labels: near future · 2027 · laboratory setting · hospital setting · corporate setting

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Vector

Robin Cook · 1999 · Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery

A New York medical examiner uncovers a deadly bioterror plot involving anthrax, extremists, and a vengeful immigrant.

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Premise labels: bioterrorism · bioweapon attack · medical investigation · mysterious deaths · terror plot · forensic investigation · revenge plot · extremist alliance

Setting labels: New York City · 1990s · post-Soviet · urban · medical examiner setting · laboratory setting · clinical setting · bioweapons research · Soviet Union

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Professor Dowell's Head

Alexander Belyaev · 1981

A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.

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Premise labels: reanimated head · human experimentation · mad scientist · medical breakthrough · body transplants · ethical dilemma · scientific ambition · living heads

Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

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Premise labels: experimental surgery · brain implant · neurotechnology · mind control · violent seizures · computer-brain interface · machine fear · medical intervention gone wrong · human vs machine · technological overreach

Setting labels: University Hospital · Los Angeles · hospital · research facility · medical laboratory · 1970s · early 1970s · retro technology · cold clinical setting · urban setting

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Invasion

Robin Cook · 1997

A doctor-to-be and his friends race to stop a strange virus that turns people into something not quite human.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · virus outbreak · medical crisis · covert contagion · collective consciousness · environmental agenda

Setting labels: contemporary setting · college town · hospital setting · American town · global outbreak · late 1990s

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Freezing Point

Anders Bodelsen · 1971

A terminally ill editor chooses cryogenic suspension, then wakes into a bleak future where survival has a dangerous price.

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Premise labels: cryogenic suspension · terminal illness · future cure · future wake-up · life extension · immortality dilemma · medical experiment · post-freeze society · body commodification · state control

Setting labels: near future · hospital setting · medical facility · scientific facility · dystopian future · 1970s future · 1990s future · 2020s future · alternative future · surveillance society

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The Weight of Memories

Liu Cixin · 2016

A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.

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Premise labels: inherited memory · memory transfer · unborn child · experimental technology · medical experiment · ancestral memory · nature versus nurture · identity question

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · medical setting · womb · China · scientific speculative world

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The Face of Another

Kōbō Abe · 2003

A disfigured scientist builds a lifelike mask and discovers it may free, split, or destroy his sense of self.

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Premise labels: Facial disfigurement · Identity crisis · Mask identity · Social alienation · Alienated scientist · Experimental selfhood · Disguise · Social stigma · Marriage strain · Double self

Setting labels: Japan · 1960s Japan · Laboratory · Urban setting · Postwar setting · Modern society · Experimental science · Social world · Domestic setting

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Observer

Robert Lanza, Nancy Kress · 2023

A disgraced neurosurgeon joins a secret Caribbean research project that may let minds alter reality itself.

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Premise labels: observer effect · consciousness and reality · brain implant · alternate realities · life after death · immortality · medical research · secret project · science-driven hook · social-media fallout

Setting labels: Cayman Islands · Caribbean medical compound · present day · near future · scientific research setting · hospital setting · brain research lab · multiverse

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