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Themes labels used: ethics, bioethics, scientific progress, human enhancement, parental choice, nature versus intervention, power and control, corporate monopoly, global inequality, scientific responsibility, fear of future, morality of experimentation, food security, genetic destiny
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A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.
Why this is here
Themes labels: bioethics · scientific responsibility · morality vs science · genetic engineering ethics · nature vs nurture · parental ambition · hubris · playing god · dehumanization · limits of science · privacy · medical ethics
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Distance: 0.0987
A desperate would-be mother makes a dangerous genetic choice, then faces the fallout of a near-future bioethics crisis.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ethics · eugenics · fertility · infertility · motherhood · parental choice · medical intervention · nature versus nurture · identity · perfectionism · power and control · scientific responsibility · body autonomy · consequences · deception · consumer medicine · social pressure · playing god · disability · human experimentation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1045
A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: bioethics · intellectual property · patent law · body ownership · consent · scientific responsibility · commercialization of science · corporate greed · medical ethics · law and science · research ethics · human identity · animal rights · surveillance · moral ambiguity · unintended consequences · public policy · sociopolitical critique
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Distance: 0.1059
In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.
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Themes labels: life and death · population ethics · human value · sacrifice · free will · government control · medical ethics · overpopulation · mortality · utopia and dystopia · ethical suicide · reproductive rights · social engineering · consequences of progress · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1167
A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death
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Distance: 0.1185
An elderly SETI scientist gets a shot at youth to decode an alien message, but the procedure changes only her husband.
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Themes labels: ethics · morality · aging · ageism · life extension · humanity · responsibility · identity · mortality · love and loyalty · technology and ethics · first contact ethics · family consequences · sexuality · reproductive rights · social inequality · science and society · cultural change · parenting · faith and religion · abortion · scientific progress · human evolution · species ethics
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Distance: 0.1239
A troubled medical student joins a secretive nanotech institute and uncovers dangerous experiments hidden behind corporate secrecy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: medical ethics · scientific responsibility · corporate greed · human experimentation · secrecy · trust · control · ambition · foster care trauma · family estrangement · moral ambiguity · technology misuse
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Distance: 0.1241
A cancer researcher’s gene-discovery is stolen and weaponized, triggering an FBI investigation and a race to stop disaster.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ethical limits · scientific responsibility · unintended consequences · weaponization · biotechnology ethics · misuse of research · corporate greed · government secrecy · conspiracy · cancer research · evolution · human vulnerability · family loss · pandemic fear · science vs morality
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Distance: 0.1246
Kirk studies a secret history of Earth as Gary Seven tracks the origins of Khan and a hidden genetic-engineering conspiracy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: genetic engineering · historical revisionism · human experimentation · power and control · destiny · morality of intervention · political manipulation · science and ethics · cause and effect · identity · humanity's future
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Distance: 0.1254
An enhanced operative races through the Amazon to secure an alien probe whose secrets could reshape Earth's future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human enhancement · biotechnology · artificial intelligence · superintelligence · singularity · morality · ethics · humanity's future · free will · survival · global competition · technology and power · evolution · human nature · nationalism · optimism about humanity
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Distance: 0.1267
An FBI agent hunts a brutal killer and uncovers a GM-crop conspiracy that may hide an alien threat to humanity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: genetic engineering · food supply · nature versus science · corporate greed · scientific hubris · truth versus deception · trust · survival · altruism · personal responsibility · mass manipulation · human extinction · environmental anxiety · conspiracy · morality
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Distance: 0.1284
In a near-future DNA marketplace, a biosecurity guard races to protect a star’s genetic identity as a shocking claim upends everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reproductive rights · bodily autonomy · privacy · consent · ethics of science · bioethics · eugenics · discrimination · equity · agency · identity · parenthood · class inequality · government overreach · playing god · fame and privacy · moral ambiguity · selection vs chance · genetic determinism · stalking
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1291
