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Premise labels used: murder investigation, mysterious tattoos, cloning conspiracy, genetic identity, manhunt, world domination, marked for death

Themes labels used: identity, nature versus nurture, corruption, political abuse, science and ethics, fate, good versus evil, belonging, predestination, parentage

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Payback

Gordon Korman · 2017 · Masterminds

Cloned kids on the run race to uncover their origins, expose Project Osiris, and stop a dangerous final scheme.

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Premise labels: clones on the run · nature versus nurture · identity search · criminal DNA · escaped experiment · prove the truth · survival quest · family origin mystery

Themes labels: nature versus nurture · identity · belonging · ethics · research ethics · family · free will · self-determination · good versus evil · criminal inheritance · coming of age · morality

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Cyteen

C.J. Cherryh · 1995 · Cyteen

A cloned genius must grow up inside a power-hungry future society built on genetic engineering and control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cloning · genetic manipulation · political intrigue · power struggle · coming of age

Themes labels: nature vs nurture · identity · humanity · ethics · consent · power · abuse · manipulation · free will · class conflict · trauma · responsibility · morality · social conditioning · personhood · loyalty · immortality

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Origin in Death

J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts · 2006 · In Death

In 2059 New York, Eve Dallas investigates two immaculate murders tied to a hidden project about perfection and human cloning.

Why this is here

Premise labels: murder investigation · hidden secret · genetic engineering · cloning · designer humans · ethical dilemma · perfection quest · medical conspiracy

Themes labels: perfection · ethics · morality · science and humanity · identity · parenthood · family · justice · abuse of power · control · social conditioning · eugenics · cloning · genetic manipulation · medical ethics · what makes a person human

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Uninvited

Sophie Jordan · 2014 · Uninvited

In a near-future society, a teen prodigy is branded with a violent-gene test result and cast out of her old life.

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Premise labels: kill gene · genetic profiling · future violence · forced testing · ostracized carrier · nature vs nurture

Themes labels: nature vs nurture · free will · genetic determinism · discrimination · prejudice · labeling · identity · ethics · social control · fear · mass hysteria · minority treatment · self-fulfilling prophecy · human rights · coming of age · privilege

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Forgotten

Krista Street · Lost Children

An amnesiac young woman finds others like her, and together they uncover a dangerous secret while being hunted.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · hidden powers · mysterious tattoos · being hunted · mystery investigation · secret origins

Themes labels: identity · memory loss · belonging · self-discovery · trust · secrecy · power and control · fate · truth-seeking · survival

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Distance: 0.2011

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Change Agent

Daniel Suarez · 2017

In 2045, an Interpol agent hunting illegal gene editors is transformed into the criminal kingpin he’s chasing.

Why this is here

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

Themes labels: identity · nature vs nurture · bioethics · human enhancement · genetic inequality · technology and society · cruelty · corruption · human trafficking · moral limits of science · accountability · class divide

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Chance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2023 · Constance

A wealthy young clone wakes accused of murder and races to uncover the truth about his memory gaps and family trauma.

Why this is here

Premise labels: human cloning · memory loss · murder accusation · self-investigation · wealth inequality · daredevil stunts · rich clone

Themes labels: identity · memory · personhood · ethics of cloning · class inequality · wealth privilege · technology misuse · grief · trauma · free will · morality · justice · immortality

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Blood Ties

Sophie McKenzie · 2008 · Blood Ties

Two teens uncover hidden truths about their births and identities while fleeing extremists and a secret genetic conspiracy.

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Premise labels: missing father · identity mystery · cloning · genetic engineering · teen on the run · scientific conspiracy · family secrets · birth mystery · fugitives · experimental births

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · nature and nurture · ethics of science · genetic engineering · cloning ethics · teen insecurity · bullying · family lies · truth and secrecy · moral ambiguity · good and evil · agency · coming of age · being different · control and surveillance

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The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

Tade Thompson · 2022 · Molly Southbourne

As Molly and her surviving doubles try to build a life, buried Cold War secrets and old enemies hunt them down.

Why this is here

Premise labels: blood clones · murderous doubles · duplicate survival · covert experiment · spy conspiracy · family under threat · hidden backstory · post-experiment fallout

Themes labels: identity · inheritance · legacy · family · trauma · survival · revenge · free will · science ethics · secrets · memory · parental legacy · humanity · belonging

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Great North Road

Peter F. Hamilton · 2013

A future detective case links a murdered clone in Newcastle to a decades-old alien massacre on a distant colony world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: murder investigation · clone dynasty · alien threat · future police case · parallel cases · wrongful conviction · off-world expedition · high-stakes inquiry · interstellar power struggle · biotech mystery

Themes labels: power and wealth · class division · corporate control · environmentalism · technology and society · human progress · stagnation · justice · innocence and guilt · identity · cloning · longevity · surveillance · political corruption · scientific hubris · colonialism · noninterference · family legacy · alien contact · survival

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Premise labels: clone identity · human cloning · organ donor · coming of age · human rights · dehumanization · escape

Themes labels: humanity · identity · nature versus nurture · free will · individuality · self-determination · prejudice · slavery · power · corruption · dehumanization · human rights · belonging · acceptance · loyalty · morality · ethics of cloning · survival · compassion · empathy · immortality · addiction · sacrifice · predestination

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Constance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2021 · Constance

A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.

Why this is here

Premise labels: human cloning · memory upload · identity crisis · own murder · clone investigation · immortality tech · rich-only access · personhood dispute · clone rights · conspiracy

Themes labels: identity · personhood · human rights · ethics of cloning · immortality · memory and self · consciousness · grief · survivor guilt · discrimination · class inequality · race and identity · morality · religion and science · law and technology · consequences of progress

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