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You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Amor Towles

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Premise labels used: genetic engineering, designer babies, fertility clinic, parental choice, future prediction, nature vs nurture, free will, ethics of choice

Setting labels used: near future, fertility clinic, urban contemporary, self-driving car, bar scene, near-present future, speculative present

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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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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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The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

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Premise labels: surrogacy · IVF · genetic experiment · bioethics · hybrid human · secret experiment · ethical dilemma · otherness

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · 2056 · New York · London · Scottish Highlands · future society · alternate future · post-climate-change · technologically advanced

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Distance: 0.1758

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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: 0.1959

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Halfway to Free

Emma Donoghue · 2020

In a future where children are rare and parenthood is discouraged, one woman must choose between safety and motherhood.

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Premise labels: population control · childfree society · forbidden parenthood · maternal desire · reproductive choice · climate crisis

Setting labels: near future · 2060 · dystopian future · childless society · post-climate-crisis world · high-tech social control

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Michael Crichton · 2006

A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene patenting · biotech ethics · corporate science · legal conflict · transgenic animals · genetic research · bioethics

Setting labels: contemporary · near future · present-day science · biotech industry · laboratory setting · legal setting · corporate setting · urban setting · global · sci-fi realism

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Brave New Girl

Rachel Vincent · 2017 · Brave New Girl

A cloned teen in a tightly controlled future risks everything after a forbidden connection exposes her world’s secrets.

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Premise labels: clones · genetic engineering · forbidden romance · individuality · conformity · lab-grown children · state control · secret rebellion · defective genome

Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic city · clone compound · labor division · highly monitored society · genetically engineered society · utopian facade · controlled community

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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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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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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Mutation

Robin Cook · 1998

A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · designer baby · perfect child · superintelligence · bioethical experiment · playing god · child prodigy · genetic tampering · surrogate pregnancy · science vs ethics

Setting labels: medical setting · laboratory setting · hospital setting · fertility clinic · biotech research · late 20th century · contemporary to publication · scientific realism

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Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: future city · tech city · dystopian future · near future · high-tech society · AI-integrated world · clinic setting · transhuman future

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