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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

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Premise labels used: genetically engineered teens, bird-human hybrids, on the run, save the world, evil corporation, mad scientists, master race plot, population cull, family survival, fugitive team

Themes labels used: identity, family, loyalty, trust, adolescent love, choice, free will, environmentalism, corporate power, bioethics, discrimination, bigotry, collective action, heroism, survival, rebellion, fate vs agency, parentage, moral ambiguity, utopianism

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School's Out—Forever

James Patterson · 2006 · Maximum Ride

Genetically engineered winged teens go to school, dodge enemies, and uncover more of the secret behind their origins.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered children · avian hybrids · on the run · forced school · save the world · clone conflict · secret origins · found family · pursued by enemies · identity search

Themes labels: identity · belonging · family · freedom · trust · loyalty · normalcy · control · survival · coming of age · mutability · selfhood · moral ambiguity · paranoia · environmental commentary

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The Dysasters

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 2019 · The Dysasters

Two teens awaken air powers during a deadly tornado and flee a scientist who engineered them for control.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered teens · elemental powers · weather control · on the run · mad scientist · secret experiment · teen fugitives · power awakening · world domination · chosen pair · superpowered teenagers

Themes labels: identity · trust · betrayal · family · chosen family · power and responsibility · good vs evil · control · self discovery · ethics · loyalty · freedom · trans identity · diversity

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Fate of Perfection

K.F. Breene · 2017 · Finding Paradise

In a corporate dystopia, a genius mother and her security ally fight to keep their genetically unusual child and win freedom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: corporate dystopia · genetically engineered society · protective parent · escape from control · breeding program · child rescue · forbidden family bond · reproductive control · superhuman protagonists

Themes labels: family · love · freedom · ownership · control · parenthood · genetics · ethics of breeding · identity · humanity · corporate power · rebellion · choice · survival

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Nevermore

James Patterson · 2012 · Maximum Ride

Max and her flock face an end-of-the-world threat while old bonds, new rivals, and hidden truths collide.

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Premise labels: mutant kids · winged kids · end of world · save the world · love triangle · apocalypse threat · genetic engineering · cloned rival

Themes labels: identity · loyalty · sacrifice · survival · coming of age · free will · control · betrayal · family · resilience · environmental collapse · chosen family

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Maximum Ride, Vol. 3

NaRae Lee, James Patterson · 2010 · Maximum Ride: The Manga

Mutant winged teens search for their origins while trying to survive a new home, school, and old enemies.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered children · fugitive youth · wings · search for origins · search for parents · forced normalcy · school adjustment · safe-house living · experiment escapees

Themes labels: identity · belonging · family search · trust · normality · freedom · control · survival · coming of age · selfhood · good vs evil · institutional mistrust

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Tarnished

Kate Jarvik Birch · 2015 · Perfected

A liberated engineered pet risks everything to cross back into danger, find her lover, and expose the system that made her property.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered humans · human pets · escape and return · rescue mission · black market · breeding program · fugitive heroine · underground trade · exposé · liberation struggle

Themes labels: freedom · slavery · human trafficking · exploitation · corruption · corrupt politics · human rights · personhood · agency · identity · moral awakening · resistance · sacrifice · love versus duty · societal complicity · body autonomy · survival · coming of age · justice

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The Ghost Brigades

John Scalzi · 2007 · Old Man's War

A cloned special-ops soldier races to stop an alien alliance while his maker’s buried memories begin to surface.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered soldiers · cloned soldier · consciousness transfer · traitor hunt · special forces · alien alliance · space warfare · identity crisis · rogue scientist

Themes labels: identity · consciousness · free will · ethics · morality · humanity · choice · personhood · colonization · war ethics · nature vs nurture · individual agency · technology ethics · loyalty · duty · selfhood

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Spark

Rachael Craw · 2014 · Spark

A grieving teen discovers she’s DNA-bound to protect her best friend from a hidden killer—and from her own changing life.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment · DNA-bound protector · best friend at risk · unknown killer · forbidden romance · secret powers · superpowered teens

Themes labels: choice versus destiny · free will · protection · identity · grief · family · friendship · loyalty · love and duty · coming of age · trust · secrets · body changes · moral ambiguity · genetic manipulation

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Tempting the Beast

Lora Leigh · 2003 · Breeds

A reporter pursues a hidden genetic hybrid, and their dangerous chemistry ignites a heat neither can ignore.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment · human-animal hybrid · forbidden attraction · mating frenzy · reporter hook · exposure threat · on the run · secret program · rescue mission · biological bond · alpha mate · freedom struggle

Themes labels: freedom · bodily autonomy · consent · control · identity · survival · genetic ethics · scientific abuse · exposure · secrecy · loyalty · betrayal · justice · animal nature · instinct vs reason · love as bond · family obligation

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House of Gold

C.T. Rwizi · 2023

Four genetically engineered youths raised in an underwater system must choose between loyalty to their creators and freedom above.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered leaders · bodyguard companions · corporate dystopia · underwater habitat · rebel uprising · loyalty dilemma · identity conflict · class hierarchy · far-future colony

Themes labels: loyalty · friendship · duty · agency · freedom · identity · personhood · oppression · class inequality · capitalism · corporate power · revolution · democracy · social change · ethics · technology and power · eugenics · colonialism · change from within · violent revolution vs reform

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Unforgotten

Jessica Brody · 2014 · Unremembered

A time-traveling engineered teen races to save her dying boyfriend while Diotech hunts the secret buried in her mind.

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Premise labels: time travel · memory loss · created human · genetic engineering · on the run · search for cure · love triangle

Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · control · trust · loyalty · love versus duty · choice · humanity · secrets · survival · self-discovery · power abuse · corporate control

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Change Agent

Daniel Suarez · 2017

In 2045, an Interpol agent hunting illegal gene editors is transformed into the criminal kingpin he’s chasing.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene editing · identity theft · body swap · fugitive on the run · illegal labs · black market biotech · biocrime · human enhancement

Themes labels: identity · nature vs nurture · bioethics · human enhancement · genetic inequality · technology and society · cruelty · corruption · human trafficking · moral limits of science · accountability · class divide

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