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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam.
Premise labels used: near future, genetic engineering, global plague, post-collapse survival, corporate power, bioengineered humans, biotech disaster
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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
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Distance: 0.1182
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
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Distance: 0.1310
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
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Distance: 0.1381
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
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Distance: 0.1415
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
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Distance: 0.1415
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
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Distance: 0.1472
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
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Distance: 0.1484
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
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Distance: 0.1519
A biotech experiment to solve organ shortages unleashes deadly genetic predators on an isolated island.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · xenotransplantation · organ transplant · scientific experiment · monster creation · science gone wrong · lab disaster · nature unleashed · human hubris · bioethics
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Distance: 0.1540
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
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Distance: 0.1552
A biotech thriller in which genetic engineering links a mysterious death, altered crops, and enhanced children worldwide.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genetic modification · designer babies · biotechnology · bioterrorism · global conspiracy · gene editing · human enhancement · bioethics
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Distance: 0.1557
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
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Distance: 0.1564
In a genetically engineered near-future America, rival castes fight over work, power, and who should control advanced technology.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · caste society · class stratification · technology control · societal collapse · economic collapse · future America · scientific ethics · bioengineered elite
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Distance: 0.1566
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
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Distance: 0.1595
A secret desert lab’s attempt to engineer a flu cure spirals into a deadly biosecurity crisis and survival chase.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · biotechnology · virus outbreak · pandemic threat · secret lab · medical breakthrough · corporate conspiracy · human enhancement · bioweapon risk · scientific ethics · desert facility · remote research station
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Distance: 0.1640
A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.
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Premise labels: bioengineered outbreak · scientist protagonist · accidental apocalypse · cure quest · virus mutation · airborne infection · post-apocalyptic survival · moral dilemma
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Distance: 0.1653
In flood-threatened Bangkok, rival powers battle over food, seeds, and engineered lives in a bleak biotech future.
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Premise labels: corporate food monopolies · genetically engineered humans · resource collapse · food scarcity · post-oil society · biotech control · seed bank conflict · survival under scarcity
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Distance: 0.1656
Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · body modification · human enhancement · life extension · bioethics · future humanity · perfectionism · medical intervention
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Distance: 0.1686
In a near-future DNA marketplace, a biosecurity guard races to protect a star’s genetic identity as a shocking claim upends everything.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · DNA theft · designer babies · reproductive technology · biosecurity · black market DNA · pregnancy uncertainty · future reproduction · bodily autonomy · genetic selection
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Distance: 0.1689
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
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Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse
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Distance: 0.1705
A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.
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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future
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Distance: 0.1733
A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.
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Premise labels: genetic engineering · animal experimentation · uplifted animal · lab escape · animal revolt · near-future biotech
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Distance: 0.1740
After ecological collapse and mass sterility, one family turns to cloning to preserve humanity—then their new society changes the rules.
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Premise labels: cloning · human cloning · species survival · post-collapse survival · sterility crisis · rebuilding civilization · genetic continuity · community survival · individual vs collective
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Distance: 0.1740
In a near-future city split by genetic enhancement, a mass-death mystery pulls a misfit group into chaos.
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Premise labels: near-future crisis · mass death mystery · genetic divide · augmented humans · anti-mod conflict · government cover-up · hackers and misfits · survival mission · sentient AI conflict · pandemic scare
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Distance: 0.1742
