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

Themes labels used: what it means to be human, ethics of science, human evolution, identity, difference and acceptance, othering, consciousness, nature versus nurture, humanity and morality, power and wealth, responsibility, hubris, prejudice, surveillance and exposure, press intrusion, mental illness, climate change, political critique, Brexit critique, science versus ethics

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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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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976

After ecological collapse and mass sterility, one family turns to cloning to preserve humanity—then their new society changes the rules.

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Premise labels: cloning · human cloning · species survival · post-collapse survival · sterility crisis · rebuilding civilization · genetic continuity · community survival · individual vs collective

Themes labels: individuality · collectivism · conformity · human nature · what it means to be human · survival ethics · creativity · imagination · nature vs technology · ecology · sterility · reproduction · genetic diversity · freedom · community · alienation · control · evolution · identity · moral tradeoffs

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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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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

Themes labels: identity · what it means to be human · animal rights · animal welfare · ethics · medical ethics · biotechnology · environmental destruction · overpopulation · conservation · speciesism · selfhood · agency · coming of age · morality · commercialization · public exploitation · nature vs civilization · human responsibility

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The Human Son

Adrian J. Walker · 2020

A nonhuman scientist raises the first human child in centuries to determine whether humanity deserves a second chance.

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Premise labels: human extinction · environmental recovery · engineered species · single-child experiment · parenting experiment · species judgment · humanity test

Themes labels: what it means to be human · parenthood · nature versus nurture · climate crisis · environmental responsibility · legacy · compassion · humanity and morality · species survival · trust · memory and history · sustainability · love and sacrifice · collective responsibility

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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

Themes labels: 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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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

Themes labels: what it means to be human · human potential · superiority · civil rights · liberty · elitism · eugenics · slavery · collective advancement · hidden knowledge · education · belief vs skepticism · scientific rationalism · moral responsibility · censorship

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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

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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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2010

A woman recalls her sheltered childhood at an isolated boarding school as buried truths about her life and future emerge.

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Premise labels: boarding school · secret purpose · organ donation · cloning · forced destiny · memory-driven return · love triangle · coming of age · humanity question · controlled upbringing · isolated children

Themes labels: mortality · humanity · identity · memory · loss · acceptance · fate · free will · ethics · bioethics · dehumanization · social alienation · class power · body autonomy · friendship · love · betrayal · art and meaning · conformity · conditioning · hope and hopelessness · what it means to be human

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Mutation

Robin Cook · 1998

A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · designer baby · perfect child · superintelligence · bioethical experiment · playing god · child prodigy · genetic tampering · surrogate pregnancy · science vs ethics

Themes labels: bioethics · scientific responsibility · morality vs science · genetic engineering ethics · nature vs nurture · parental ambition · hubris · playing god · dehumanization · limits of science · privacy · medical ethics

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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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Replica

Lauren Oliver · 2016 · Replica

Two teens on opposite sides of a secret cloning conspiracy uncover truths that can only be seen together.

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Premise labels: cloning · human experimentation · secret facility · identity crisis · family secrets · escape · answers quest · split journey

Themes labels: identity · individuality · humanity · nature vs nurture · choice · agency · ethics · morality · freedom · self-discovery · belonging · body image · conspiracy · what makes a person human · science and ethics

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Origin in Death

J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts · 2006 · In Death

In 2059 New York, Eve Dallas investigates two immaculate murders tied to a hidden project about perfection and human cloning.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · hidden secret · genetic engineering · cloning · designer humans · ethical dilemma · perfection quest · medical conspiracy

Themes labels: perfection · ethics · morality · science and humanity · identity · parenthood · family · justice · abuse of power · control · social conditioning · eugenics · cloning · genetic manipulation · medical ethics · what makes a person human

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