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Premise labels used: genetic engineering, sleep deprivation, superhuman elite, class divide, designer children, posthuman society

Setting labels used: near future, United States, orbiting space station, future Earth, alternate future, space habitat, embryo engineering era

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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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Distance: 0.1713

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Assignment in Eternity

Robert A. Heinlein · 2000 · Assignment in Eternity

Four early Heinlein stories explore superhuman potential, psychic powers, time travel, and the question of what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: superhuman potential · human evolution · ESP · time travel · parallel universes · genetically engineered beings · human rights

Setting labels: future Earth · near future · 1940s pulp era · space travel · moon setting · alternate timelines · parallel worlds · laboratory setting · courtroom setting

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Distance: 0.1820

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Beggars and Choosers

Nancy Kress · 1994 · Sleepless

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

Setting labels: future America · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · orbital habitat · island retreat · near-future · technologically degraded society · genetically altered world · class-divided society

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Distance: 0.1835

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Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 2014 · Firefall

A baseline biologist is pulled into a posthuman pilgrimage toward the sun, where faith, free will, and alien contact collide.

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Premise labels: posthumanism · first contact · space journey · baseline human · alien signal · religion and science · free will · consciousness · hive mind · genetic engineering

Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · 22nd century · Earth · Oregon desert · deep space · Solar System · spaceship · monastery · dystopian future · posthuman future

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Distance: 0.1942

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Stupid Perfect World

Scott Westerfeld · 2012

In a perfected future, two teens must live ancient hardships for class and discover what their world lacks.

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Premise labels: utopian future · scarcity experiment · future school · ancient hardship · teen project · controlled body · sleep deprivation · hormone regulation · perfect society

Setting labels: future Earth · utopian society · near future · high-tech future · teleportation · headspace · solar system travel · school setting

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Distance: 0.1985

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Shadows in Flight

Orson Scott Card · 2012 · The Shadow

Genetically engineered children on a relativistic voyage search for a cure, then encounter an alien mystery in deep space.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered children · relativistic space travel · search for cure · limited lifespan · first contact · derelict alien ship · family survival

Setting labels: deep space · generation ship · relativistic travel · alien ship · space colony future · Earth future · fictional future

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Distance: 0.2036

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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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Distance: 0.2073

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The Games

Ted Kosmatka · 2012

In a near-future Olympic bloodsport, a geneticist faces an AI-designed monster unlike anything Earth has seen.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · Olympic bloodsport · designer monsters · battle to the death · AI-created creature · genetic competition · amoral future · state-sponsored biotechnology · science gone wrong

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · United States · Olympics · international event · global competition · alternate future · scientific laboratory · televised arena

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Distance: 0.2113

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Accelerando

Charles Stross · 2005

Three generations of one family navigate an accelerating posthuman future as AI, nanotech, and the Singularity reshape humanity.

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Premise labels: technological singularity · posthuman future · AI takeover · mind uploading · solar system scale · family saga · venture altruism · post-scarcity economy · humanity under pressure · alien contact · distributed intelligence · runaway innovation

Setting labels: near future · post-singularity · solar system · outer system · Saturn · Jupiter moon · Earth · virtual worlds · cyberspace · posthuman civilization · spacefaring future · ultra-capitalist future

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Distance: 0.2139

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

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

Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet

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Distance: 0.2143

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Falling Free

Lois McMaster Bujold, Suford Lewis · 2004 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

An engineer at a space habitat discovers a corporation's genetically engineered workers are being treated as disposable property.

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Premise labels: engineer protagonist · genetically engineered humans · zero gravity · corporate exploitation · slave labor · personhood · emancipation · worker rights · moral dilemma · bioengineering

Setting labels: space station · deep space · zero gravity · future · prequel timeline · offworld habitat · corporate facility · scientific outpost · space habitat

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Distance: 0.2146

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The Eyes of Heisenberg

Frank Herbert · 2002

In a far-future biotech dystopia, a rare embryo could upend an immortal ruling class built on genetic control.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · immortality · controlled reproduction · eugenic society · rebel embryo · sterile elite · class control · genetic surveillance · bioengineered hierarchy · resistance movement

Setting labels: far future · distant future · dystopian future · Earth · Seatac Megalopolis · Pacific Northwest · controlled society · in vitro reproduction · genetically engineered world · immortal ruling class

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Distance: 0.2156

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