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Premise labels used: pandemic aftermath, disability technology, mind-body split, robot bodies, virtual society, murder investigation, federal investigation, identity crisis, post-plague society

Themes labels used: identity, disability, accessibility, social exclusion, prejudice, classism, technology and society, civil rights, culture and community, ethics, personhood, privacy, power, politics, consumerism of bodies, acceptance, cure versus identity

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Cover of Three Days in April by Edward Ashton

Three Days in April

Edward Ashton · 2015

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

Themes labels: human enhancement · identity · body modification · genetic engineering · technology and society · transhumanism · class divide · racial divide · discrimination · surveillance · government secrecy · truth and cover-up · morality of improvement · civil conflict · AI autonomy · humanity · security vs freedom · religion and technology · ethics of modification

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Cover of Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome by John Scalzi

Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · global pandemic · medical crisis · post-pandemic society · disabled future · technology response · public policy · civil rights · social change · worldbuilding prelude

Themes labels: pandemic response · public health · disability rights · personhood · social prejudice · collective action · ethics of technology · government policy · economic disruption · human resilience · identity and embodiment · minority experience

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The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

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Premise labels: uploaded consciousness · android bodies · quarantine society · post-pandemic · companions program · corporate ownership · class stratification · revenge quest · sentient machines · memory transfer

Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification

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Cover of Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

Themes labels: transformation · survival · female agency · gender · sexism · women's rights · feminism · bodily autonomy · reproductive rights · abortion rights · illness · disability · chronic illness · queer desire · coming out · abuse · violence · social commentary · pandemic trauma · apocalypse · existential crisis · religion · fate · identity · choice

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Child Zero

Chris Holm · 2022

In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.

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Premise labels: antibiotic resistance · bioterrorism · pandemic collapse · medical crisis · missing child · quarantine zone · manhunt · government overreach · scientific plausibility · public health crisis

Themes labels: public health · survival · fear · hope · humanity · government power · civil liberties · authoritarianism · racism · xenophobia · immigration · class inequality · medical ethics · science vs politics · crisis response · misinformation · prejudice · capitalism

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Walking in Two Worlds

Wab Kinew · 2021 · Walking in Two Worlds

An Indigenous teen gamer navigates a near-future virtual world, real-life pressures, and a risky friendship that could change both.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dual worlds · virtual reality · gamer protagonist · outsider connection · identity conflict · cultural preservation · post-pandemic future · online radicalization

Themes labels: identity · belonging · self-acceptance · body image · culture · tradition vs modernity · colonization · racism · sexism · misogyny · online radicalization · community trauma · family trauma · mental health · technology and society · cultural preservation · outsider status · trust · grief · feminism

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All Better Now

Neal Shusterman · 2025 · Crown Royale

A near-future pandemic makes survivors blissfully content, sparking a battle over happiness, power, and control.

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Premise labels: contagious happiness · pandemic outbreak · virus with consequences · virus as social threat · public health conflict · truth versus propaganda · power versus empathy · economy disrupted · anti-consumerism

Themes labels: happiness · empathy · agency · freedom · autonomy · morality · ethical dilemma · capitalism · consumerism · power · control · misinformation · public health · pandemic politics · depression · anger · ambition · social commentary · collective good · individual choice · good versus evil · meaning of life · truth

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Cover of A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal

A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

Raymond A. Villareal · 2018

A CDC investigator traces a vampire virus as it spreads worldwide and upends politics, law, religion, and society.

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Premise labels: vampire virus · pandemic outbreak · medical mystery · societal takeover · civil rights conflict · political infiltration · rights struggle · coexistence crisis · modern vampirism

Themes labels: public health · pandemic response · civil rights · disability rights · social inequality · religion and power · politics and governance · media influence · conspiracy thinking · social satire · otherness · fear of contagion · assimilation · elitism · class power · ethics of transformation · oppression · institutional complicity

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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.

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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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Cover of Amped by Daniel H. Wilson

Amped

Daniel H. Wilson · 2012

In a near-future America, a teacher with a brain implant is swept into a civil-rights crisis over human enhancement.

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Premise labels: brain implants · enhanced humans · civil rights backlash · identity crisis · government discrimination · transhuman conflict · medical augmentation · public fear

Themes labels: humanity · civil rights · discrimination · prejudice · othering · free will · morality · technology ethics · transhumanism · identity · societal fear · class conflict · marginalization · government power · mob mentality · social commentary · belonging · enhancement

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Cover of Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

Poster Girl

Veronica Roth · 2022

A former regime poster girl, imprisoned after a revolution, must solve a missing-child case to win her freedom.

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Premise labels: post-dystopia · surveillance state · missing child · freedom bargain · investigation · political aftermath

Themes labels: surveillance · privacy · government control · indoctrination · freedom · morality · privilege · class disparity · redemption · identity · technology dependence · collaboration · guilt · truth and memory · social control · propaganda

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Cover of Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan

Mindbreaker

Kate Dylan · 2023 · Mindwalker

A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.

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Premise labels: mind upload · robot body · identity crisis · body autonomy · corporate control · anti-tech cult · experimental technology · terminal illness · save or betray · corporate conspiracy · humanity question · memory gaps · hidden agenda · escape and expose

Themes labels: identity · humanity · agency · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · free will · corporate greed · capitalism · ethics · technology · religion · faith crisis · indoctrination · control · power · exploitative systems · selfhood · memory · morality · rebellion · resistance · classism · healthcare · social commentary

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