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Emily Suvada

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

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

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This Cruel Design

Emily Suvada · 2018 · This Mortal Coil

A wounded teen coder races to stop a mutated virus and unravel her own hidden identity in a twisted dystopian sequel.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1391

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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: 0.1574

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Distance: 0.1600

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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 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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Distance: 0.1646

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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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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.

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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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Loop

Kōji Suzuki · 2006 · リング [Ring]

A young man chases the truth behind a deadly virus and discovers a reality far stranger than he imagined.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · scientific mystery · simulation theory · cure quest · world-ending infection · artificial life · origin mystery · existential crisis

Setting labels: virtual reality · computer simulation · desert setting · New Mexico · real world · futuristic science lab · apocalyptic world · contemporary

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Escape to Eden

Rachel McClellan · 2016 · The Original

An amnesiac teen with a clue written on her hand must flee a controlled future and uncover who she is.

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Premise labels: amnesia · escape · secret identity · altered humans · genetic manipulation · original humans · pursuit · safe haven · survival · resistance

Setting labels: dystopian future · lab · hospital · secret colony · hidden refuge · controlled society · scientific future · post-human world

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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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Distance: 0.1695

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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.

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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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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.1713

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