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Themes labels used: cloning, bioethics, medical ethics, science and religion, good and evil, morality, creation, responsibility, parenthood, childhood trauma, otherness, prejudice, difference, madness, faith, fanaticism, free will, death, immortality, genetics, identity

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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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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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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · 1996 · Ender's Saga

On a doomed colony world, Ender and allies race to avert extinction while a virus, aliens, and faith collide.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · free will · determinism · religion · faith · science and religion · consciousness · sentience · identity · humanity · otherness · prejudice · coexistence · survival · sacrifice · responsibility · good and evil · parental duty · community

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Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty · 2017

Six cloned crew members wake on a crippled ship beside their murdered former bodies and must solve the crime before it repeats.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · clone rights · ethics of cloning · immortality · memory · moral responsibility · consciousness · humanity · religion and science · law and society · class and privilege · guilt and culpability · prejudice · technology and ethics

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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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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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The Living Blood

Tananarive Due · 2001 · African Immortals

A resurrected mother must protect her gifted young daughter from secret immortals, greedy hunters, and her own haunted past.

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Themes labels: parenting · immortality · mortality · legacy · sacrifice · forgiveness · good and evil · power and responsibility · faith · religion · free will · ethics of healing · human greed · generational trauma · grief · love and loss · childhood · identity · racial history · choice · afterlife

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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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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 Jesus Incident

Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom · 1987 · The Pandora Sequence

A colonized alien world and a godlike sentient ship force humans and clones to confront worship, survival, and identity.

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Themes labels: religion · godhood · free will · determinism · faith · worship · consciousness · self-determination · ecology · human nature · power · manipulation · violence · sacrifice · oneness · communication · identity · technology vs humanity · colonialism · environmentalism · bioethics · racism · sexual politics · cloning · authority

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · survival · family · moral ambiguity · species rights · othering · prejudice · corporate greed · scientific responsibility · power abuse · compromise · acceptance · motherhood · coming of age · apocalypse ethics · nature vs nurture

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The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey · 2021

A cloning scientist finds her husband has replaced her with a better, obedient copy—then the dead body forces both wives to cooperate.

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Themes labels: cloning ethics · human personhood · agency · identity · autonomy · free will · women's autonomy · misogyny · toxic masculinity · abuse cycle · trauma · motherhood · childbearing conflict · family dysfunction · marriage · ownership · consent · science morality · nature vs nurture · selfhood · replacement · violence · revenge · career vs family

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · selfhood · human nature · souls · memory · personhood · morality of cloning · privacy · class · prejudice · responsibility · free will · transcendence · godhood · ethics of technology · social change · cheating/fidelity · mortality

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Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1995 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

A clone brother hijacks his sibling’s life to rescue others like him, and the mission forces both men to confront who they are.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · trauma · survival · family · choice · agency · inheritance · succession · genetics versus experience · humanity · moral responsibility · redemption · acceptance · personhood · social belonging · psychological harm · bioethics · class power · loyalty

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The Evening and the Morning and the Night

Octavia E. Butler · 1991 · Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks

A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.

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Themes labels: genetic determinism · free will · agency · identity · social stigma · discrimination · medical ethics · bioethics · eugenics · isolation · community · responsibility · collective responsibility · self-determination · human dignity · mental illness · disability · inheritance · parent-child legacy · survival · compassion · belonging · autonomy · class stratification · feminism · racial discrimination · othering

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