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Premise labels used: near future, genetic engineering, global plague, post-collapse survival, corporate power, bioengineered humans, biotech disaster

Themes labels used: climate change, corporate corruption, environmental destruction, humanity, survival, science and ethics, biotechnology, genetic manipulation, feminism, religion, class inequality, consumerism, mortality, apocalypse, hope, human nature, morality, ecocriticism, animal studies, immortality

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Pump Six and Other Stories

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2008 · The Windup Universe

A bleak short-story collection of near-future worlds shaped by climate collapse, biotech, and resource scarcity.

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Premise labels: environmental dystopia · near-future warning tale · biotech collapse · resource scarcity · humanity under pressure

Themes labels: climate change · environmental destruction · resource scarcity · water rights · food supply · population control · immortality · bioethics · humanity · morality · greed · class inequality · corporate power · technology and society · ecological collapse · compassion · survival · dehumanization · knowledge decline · social criticism

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · genetically engineered humans · plague aftermath · new civilization · storytelling culture · survival community · human extinction aftermath · eco-collapse · corporate control

Themes labels: survival · hope · loss · storytelling · mythmaking · evolution · adaptation · ethics · religion · technology · corporate power · environmental collapse · capitalism · memory · community · love · language · humanity · morality · resilience · creation · gender roles · ecology · consumerism · class division · unintended consequences

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Themes labels: humanity · evolution · survival · extinction · reproduction · ecology · technology vs nature · cloning · AI ethics · memory · identity · belonging · love · creation and destruction · community · collective life · faith · gender roles · destructive tendencies · species continuity

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Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

In a biotech-ravaged multiverse, three uncanny travelers battle a corporation across collapsing realities.

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Premise labels: corporate biotech · post-apocalyptic survival · alternate realities · multiverse mission · end-of-world struggle · nonhuman protagonists · environmental collapse · biotech apocalypse

Themes labels: environmental destruction · ecocide · human hubris · posthuman identity · personhood · survival · hope and despair · corporate power · moral ambiguity · nature vs humanity · collective trauma · meaning-making

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Themes labels: human extinction · environmental collapse · ecological warning · adaptation · evolutionary change · technological dependence · genetic engineering ethics · eugenics · misanthropy · survival · dehumanization · biodiversity loss · human pride · limits of progress · sentience

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Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

Blake Crouch · 2019

Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.

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Premise labels: future scenarios · technological change · catastrophic future · post-apocalyptic future · AI · quantum computing · genetic engineering · fertility technology · memory loss · human consciousness

Themes labels: humanity · hope · mortality · ethics of technology · identity · memory · free will · predetermination · grief · social criticism · race · eugenics · capitalism · class privilege · parenting · nature vs nurture

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Inter Ice Age 4

Kōbō Abe · 1972

A future-predicting machine drags a scientist into murder, bioengineering, and a terrifying vision of humanity’s next form.

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Premise labels: future prediction · forecast machine · climate catastrophe · genetic engineering · underwater humanity · murder mystery · body modification · future ethics · technological control · civilizational change

Themes labels: future ethics · climate change · determinism · identity crisis · human obsolescence · technological hubris · bioethics · conservatism vs progress · morality of prediction · fate vs agency · evolution · abortion · surveillance · politics of knowledge · present judgment

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Shangri-La

Mathieu Bablet · 2016 · Shangri-La

In a giant orbital colony, a corporate worker uncovers secrets that could upend a consumerist society built on control.

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Premise labels: space station colony · corporate control · consumer dystopia · genetic engineering · creation of life · terraforming · rebellion · investigation · future humanity · post-apocalyptic survival

Themes labels: consumerism · capitalism · power · freedom vs security · surveillance · speciesism · racism · exploitation · ecology · environmental collapse · ethics of creation · playing god · technology and control · social manipulation · revolution · class oppression · mass media · materialism · progress · human survival

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Maelstrom

Peter Watts · 2002 · Rifters

A bioengineered woman emerges into a collapsing near-future world, carrying a deadly menace and a fierce need for revenge.

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Premise labels: catastrophe aftermath · revenge quest · plague carrier · corporate cover-up · bioengineered humans · viral contagion · apocalypse threat · refugee crisis · AI threat · undersea-to-surface shift

Themes labels: revenge · free will · consciousness · biology · evolution · survival · ecology · corporate power · state control · information control · biopolitics · human collapse · morality · pandemic · refugees · climate disaster · technology and society · identity · psychological damage

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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

C.M. Kosemen · 2008

An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.

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Premise labels: future history · human evolution · alien conquest · genetic modification · posthuman future · space colonization · terraforming · speculative biology · cosmic punishment

Themes labels: evolution · posthumanism · humanity · survival · extinction · fate · change · impermanence · cosmic insignificance · optimism · body autonomy · forced transformation · sentience · civilization cycles · power and cruelty · adaptation · meaninglessness · human resilience

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Upgrade

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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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Themes labels: feminism · queer futurity · patriarchy · climate collapse · pandemic · bioethics · technological overreach · capitalism · resource exploitation · body autonomy · identity · community survival · gender · transhumanism · posthumanism · Cartesian dualism · class hierarchy

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