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Premise labels used: viral outbreak, mutated virus, genetic engineering, genehacker city, uneasy alliance, identity mystery, code control, human reprogramming

Setting labels used: futuristic world, post-apocalyptic world, dystopian world, virus-haunted world, desert city, genehacker enclave, hidden city, technologically altered society

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This Vicious Cure

Emily Suvada · 2020 · This Mortal Coil

A hacked-and-haunted hero races through a virus-ravaged future to stop a new power struggle over life, death, and control.

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Premise labels: gene hacking · virus outbreak · cure race · prevent death · global stakes · corporate control · humanity at risk · identity loss · memory loss

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · surface world · bunkers · virtual reality · simulation · lab setting · world ravaged by virus · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1391

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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Distance: 0.1575

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Marked Omega

Lizzy Bequin · 2020 · Quarantine Omega

A scientist trapped in a quarantine zone is transformed and claimed by three alphas in a dangerous, steamy new world.

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Premise labels: quarantine zone · bait and capture · scientific experiment · forced transformation · mate claim · alpha omega dynamics · virus mutation · corporate conspiracy · rescue mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · quarantine zone · walled city · hive city · contaminated forest · alternate Earth · dystopian future · mutated society · isolated colony

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Distance: 0.1583

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Born to Fight

Tara Brown, A.E. Watson · 2013 · Born

A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.

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Premise labels: captivity escape · revenge quest · genetic experiment · forced mutation · survival struggle · family secret · love triangle · zombie outbreak · mad scientist · corrupt government

Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse

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Distance: 0.1713

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Premise labels: outbreak · body parasites · sentient parasite · medical experiment · humanity at risk · identity conflict · species conflict · compromise between sides · survival struggle · found family

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · medical-tech future · outbreak setting · quarantine · military compound · safe zone · city collapse · society in collapse · bioengineered reality

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The Death Cure

James Dashner · 2011 · The Maze Runner

A memory-stripped teen races to survive a virus-ravaged world while WICKED hunts him and the truth behind the trials.

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Premise labels: memory loss · virus outbreak · cure quest · survival trial · government experiment · safe haven · truth-seeking · fugitive chase

Setting labels: dystopian world · post-apocalyptic world · virus-ravaged world · ruined cities · wasteland · experimental facility · maze setting · safe haven · futuristic science fiction

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Distance: 0.1768

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PODs

Michelle K. Pickett · 2013 · PODs

A teen chosen for an underground virus refuge finds love, then discovers the surface is still deadly.

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Premise labels: virus outbreak · government lottery · underground shelter · selected survivors · survival romance · post-virus mutation

Setting labels: underground habitats · post-apocalyptic world · virus pandemic · government compound · survival bunker · topside outbreak · small-group confinement

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Distance: 0.1770

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Strain

Amelia C. Gormley · 2014 · Strain

In a ruined future, a sheltered survivor must endure a sexually transmitted cure from soldiers to survive a deadly plague.

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Premise labels: virus survival · forced intimacy · sex as cure · immunity quest · plague aftermath · military rescue · do-or-die choice · survival dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · plague world · bioweapon fallout · military compound · monastery · ruined world · survivalist world · Earth

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Distance: 0.1773

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The Bane

Keary Taylor · 2013 · The Eden Trilogy

A memory-lost teen in a last human colony must survive a robot plague while choosing between two very different boys.

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Premise labels: human survival · last colony · robot infection · cybernetic plague · love triangle · hidden identity · memory loss · end of humanity · secret past

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · small colony · safe haven · countryside refuge · ruined cities · wilderness survival · human extinction crisis

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Little Mushroom: Revelations

Yi Shi Si Zhou, 一十四洲 · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a human base to recover his spore, only to face a wary judge and an unraveling apocalypse.

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Premise labels: lost spore · identity concealment · xenogenic infiltration · human base · apocalypse survival · forbidden attraction · final trial

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · decaying universe · human base · Northern Base · walled cities · underground cities · desolate land · highly mutated world · scientific apocalypse · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1783

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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

Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality

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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.

Why this is here

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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Distance: 0.1814

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