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These books are ranked using the premise + themes labels extracted for The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

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

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + themes embeddings are close.

Cover of Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1031

Cover of MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1136

Cover of Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1211

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Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1249

Cover of Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1307

Cover of Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Blake Crouch

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1320

Cover of Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1368

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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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1371

Cover of Maelstrom by Peter Watts

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1404

Cover of All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1411

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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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1416

Cover of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1440