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

Themes labels used: ethics of science, human dignity, bodily autonomy, identity, mortality, progress and morality, corruption, control, freedom, suffering, science vs ethics, what makes a person

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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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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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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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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2011 · I, Robot (Reichert)

A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.

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Premise labels: hospital conspiracy · medical experimentation · mind-reading technology · nanotechnology · robotics ethics · child patients · psychiatric residency · near-future medicine · experimental treatment · hidden sabotage · human mind

Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death

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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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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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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Premise labels: human cloning · identity crisis · ethical dilemma · on the run · mistaken identity · search for a cure · outsider status · escape from institution

Themes labels: humanity · identity · selfhood · personhood · bioethics · cloning ethics · rights and dignity · individual rights vs collective good · belonging · freedom · human experimentation · memory and origin · trust · morality of science · family · love · survival · acceptance

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

Themes labels: humanity · identity · nature versus nurture · free will · individuality · self-determination · prejudice · slavery · power · corruption · dehumanization · human rights · belonging · acceptance · loyalty · morality · ethics of cloning · survival · compassion · empathy · immortality · addiction · sacrifice · predestination

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Themes labels: medical ethics · bioethics · identity · self-perception · memory · humanity · free will · parental sacrifice · choices · consciousness · morality · death and dignity · body autonomy · coming of age · forgiveness · faith and science

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City of Night

Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman · 2005 · Dean Koontz's Frankenstein

A rogue creator unleashes a perfected new race in modern New Orleans, while a monster and two detectives fight back.

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Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · mad scientist · engineered beings · human replacement · monster vs creator · apocalypse threat · detectives vs conspiracy · reign of terror

Themes labels: humanity · identity · control · free will · creation ethics · playing God · replacement · corruption · sympathy for monsters · good vs evil · parenthood · evolution · apocalypse · power and hubris · autonomy · what makes human

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The Breakthrough

Daphne du Maurier · 2018

An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.

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Premise labels: mad science · life after death · scientific ethics · secret experiment · metaphysical inquiry · mad scientist

Themes labels: ethics of science · morality · life and death · afterlife · consciousness · human expendability · consent · abuse of power · limits of knowledge · grief · religion and science · playing god

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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Premise labels: creation gone wrong · mad scientist · man-made monster · abandonment · revenge · rejection · loneliness · responsibility · dangerous knowledge · ethical science

Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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