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Themes labels used: medical ethics, scientific responsibility, corporate greed, human experimentation, secrecy, trust, control, ambition, foster care trauma, family estrangement, moral ambiguity, technology misuse

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Cover of Darwin's Cipher: A Medical Thriller by M.A. Rothman

Darwin's Cipher: A Medical Thriller

M.A. Rothman · 2019

A cancer researcher’s gene-discovery is stolen and weaponized, triggering an FBI investigation and a race to stop disaster.

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Themes labels: ethical limits · scientific responsibility · unintended consequences · weaponization · biotechnology ethics · misuse of research · corporate greed · government secrecy · conspiracy · cancer research · evolution · human vulnerability · family loss · pandemic fear · science vs morality

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Aliens: Infiltrator

Weston Ochse · 2021 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

A Weyland-Yutani scientist arrives at a remote station and finds secret experiments, sabotage, and Xenomorph chaos.

Why this is here

Themes labels: scientific ethics · corporate greed · human hubris · survival · betrayal · loyalty · weaponization · biowarfare · control gone wrong · greater good · fear of the unknown · monstrous humanity · exploration vs exploitation · responsibility · morality under pressure

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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.

Why this is here

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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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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Dogs of War

Jonathan Maberry · 2017 · Joe Ledger

A battered counterterrorism team races to stop a terrorist-triggered robot-and-AI apocalypse before it spreads worldwide.

Why this is here

Themes labels: technological ethics · artificial intelligence · human vs machine · consequences · recovery · trauma · PTSD · trust · survival · global catastrophe · moral responsibility · power and control · biotechnology · dehumanization

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Cover of Iron Man, Vol. 1: Believe by Kieron Gillen

Iron Man, Vol. 1: Believe

Kieron Gillen · 2013 · Iron Man (2012) (Collected Editions)

Iron Man hunts down stolen Extremis tech across globe and space, testing new armors while confronting the cost of his inventions.

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Themes labels: responsibility · technology ethics · misused innovation · morality of invention · redemption · personal accountability · transhumanism · containment · control · identity · penance · human impact of science

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Next

Michael Crichton · 2006

A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.

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Themes labels: bioethics · intellectual property · patent law · body ownership · consent · scientific responsibility · commercialization of science · corporate greed · medical ethics · law and science · research ethics · human identity · animal rights · surveillance · moral ambiguity · unintended consequences · public policy · sociopolitical critique

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Cover of The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

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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Themes labels: medical ethics · human experimentation · technological risk · free will · identity · sanity · paranoia · control · mind-body relation · science and morality · hubris · dehumanization · overreliance on technology · brain and behavior · psychological intervention · playing God

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Cover of Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen by Marc Elsberg

Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen

Marc Elsberg · 2016

A biotech thriller in which genetic engineering links a mysterious death, altered crops, and enhanced children worldwide.

Why this is here

Themes labels: ethics · bioethics · scientific progress · human enhancement · parental choice · nature versus intervention · power and control · corporate monopoly · global inequality · scientific responsibility · fear of future · morality of experimentation · food security · genetic destiny

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Extinction

Douglas Preston · 2024 · Cash & Colcord

A Colorado resort built around de-extinct megafauna becomes the scene of a brutal crime and a much darker hidden threat.

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Themes labels: genetic engineering · ethics of science · nature vs technology · greed · morality · hubris · deception · betrayal · corporate secrecy · human ambition · science and responsibility · play God

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Off Target

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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