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Premise labels used: genetic engineering, gene editing, identity theft, body swap, fugitive on the run, illegal labs, black market biotech, biocrime, human enhancement

Setting labels used: near future, 2045, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Asian biotech hub, dystopian future, globalized future

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Baby X

Kira Peikoff · 2024

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

Setting labels: near future · future United States · 2050s · dystopian future · lab conception · high-tech future · near-distant future · post-phone society · digital surveillance future · world of celebrity culture

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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

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic

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Nexus

Ramez Naam · 2012 · Nexus

A young scientist is coerced into a spy mission after a mind-linking nano-drug becomes a global security threat.

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Premise labels: mind link · brain interface · drug tech · human enhancement · posthuman transition · illegal technology · government crackdown · spy coercion · technological arms race · hive mind · coercion technology · mind control · knowledge transfer

Setting labels: near future · 2040 · mid-21st century · San Francisco · Bangkok · Shanghai · Washington DC · Thailand · international setting · academic setting · biotech world · high tech future · recognizable future · posthuman future · global conspiracy

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The Bohr Maker

Linda Nagata · 2011 · The Nanotech Succession

A dying posthuman and a slum-born woman become fugitives after an illegal nanotech device rewrites her body and fate.

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Premise labels: illegal nanotechnology · life extension · fugitive chase · body modification · posthumanism · tech suppression · black market tech · identity transformation

Setting labels: far future · future Earth · space habitats · orbiting habitat · slums · urban poverty · authoritarian state · regulated biotechnology · nanotech-controlled society

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Wrath

Shäron Moalem, Daniel Kraus · 2022

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

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · urban setting · New York City · biotech startup · dystopian future

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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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Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · infertility · pregnancy secret · moral dilemma · medical ethics · unintended consequences · cover-up · reproductive technology · perfect child

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · global · UK · medical future · dystopian future · scientific future · worldwide crisis

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Genome

A.G. Riddle · 2017 · The Extinction Files

A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: genetic mystery · human evolution · global conspiracy · race against time · hidden code · lost research · apocalyptic survival · virtual reality

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · global · international · post-pandemic world · Arctic · Australia · United States · Berlin · virtual world · alternate reality · human genome

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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.

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

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

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

Setting labels: near future · distant future · alternate future · our world · futuristic Earth · global society · undersea setting · asteroid belt

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UnWholly

Neal Shusterman · 2012 · Unwind Dystology

In a dystopian future where teens are harvested for parts, survivors face new threats and a manufactured boy questions who he is.

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Premise labels: body harvesting · teen survival · identity crisis · futuristic bioethics · rebellion · black market

Setting labels: futuristic society · dystopian near-future · biotechnological reality · institutional control · black market economy

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The Body Scout

Lincoln Michel · 2021

A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · baseball world · body modification · corporate control · medical debt · biotech capitalism · future sports

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath · corporate America · New York City · high-tech society · neo-industrial future · smog-choked city · biotech future

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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