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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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Cover of This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada

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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

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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Cover of Loop by Kōji Suzuki

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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Cover of Escape to Eden by Rachel McClellan

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

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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Cover of The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of Little Mushroom: Revelations by Yi Shi Si Zhou

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of Genome by A.G. Riddle

Genome

A.G. Riddle · 2017 · The Extinction Files

A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: genetic mystery · human evolution · global conspiracy · race against time · hidden code · lost research · apocalyptic survival · virtual reality

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · global · international · post-pandemic world · Arctic · Australia · United States · Berlin · virtual world · alternate reality · human genome

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Cover of PODs by Michelle K. Pickett

PODs

Michelle K. Pickett · 2013 · PODs

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

Why this is here

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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Cover of Reborn: Apocalypse Volume 1 by L.M. Kerr

Reborn: Apocalypse Volume 1

L.M. Kerr · 2019 · Reborn: Apocalypse

A battle-hardened warrior gets a chance to redo the apocalypse and rewrite humanity's fate with future knowledge.

Why this is here

Premise labels: second chance · future reset · save humanity · apocalypse prevention · system world · time-travel do-over · foreknowledge advantage · regression · cheat codes · heroic underdog

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · new reality · game-like world · layered world · 7 Layers · skyscraper landscape · monster-filled world · alien world

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Cover of Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer

Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

In a biotech-ravaged multiverse, three uncanny travelers battle a corporation across collapsing realities.

Why this is here

Premise labels: corporate biotech · post-apocalyptic survival · alternate realities · multiverse mission · end-of-world struggle · nonhuman protagonists · environmental collapse · biotech apocalypse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ravaged world · dystopian city · multiverse · alternate timelines · biotech-altered world · ruined Earth · posthuman setting

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Cover of Nova Express by William S. Burroughs

Nova Express

William S. Burroughs · 1964 · The Nova Trilogy

A cut-up sci-fi satire where a police agent battles a language-virus conspiracy and systems of control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: word virus · language as control · social control · anti-control · surveillance state · conspiracy · interstellar threat · police vs criminals

Setting labels: dystopian future · science fictional world · earth · outer space · interstellar · media-saturated world · cityscape · paranoid reality

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Cover of Juniper Unraveling by Keri Lake

Juniper Unraveling

Keri Lake · 2017 · Juniper Unraveling

In a virus-ravaged world split by walls, a young survivor and a mute boy become bound by love and dangerous secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · love under pressure · wall divide · infected society · forbidden contact · research facility · escaped prisoner · hidden truth · post-virus world

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · wall-separated community · infected zone · research compound · laboratory setting · survival society · ruined civilization · virus outbreak · future setting · deadly contagion

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Cover of Strain by Amelia C. Gormley

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman

This Alien Shore

C.S. Friedman · 1999 · The Outworlds

A runaway girl with hidden brain secrets and a deadly virus crisis threaten the balance of a posthuman interstellar network.

Why this is here

Premise labels: corporate conspiracy · genetic mutation · interstellar monopoly · virus outbreak · runaway heroine · hunted secret · brain implant conspiracy · neurodiversity · space travel control · factional intrigue

Setting labels: far future · outer orbit · space colonies · space stations · interstellar travel · cyberspace · virtual reality · corporate Earth · outworlds · alternate dimension · posthuman society

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Cover of Zom-B Goddess by Darren Shan

Zom-B Goddess

Darren Shan · 2016 · Zom-B

The final Zom-B volume unleashes betrayals, bloody twists, and a last battle that could decide who survives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · final showdown · betrayal · virus outbreak · survival struggle · world-ending stakes

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · zombie apocalypse · laboratory setting · military conflict · sewers · underground tunnels

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Cover of Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Blake Crouch

Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

Blake Crouch · 2019

Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future scenarios · technological change · catastrophic future · post-apocalyptic future · AI · quantum computing · genetic engineering · fertility technology · memory loss · human consciousness

Setting labels: near future · future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · space evacuation · virtual world · casino setting · isolated room

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Cover of After the Cure by Deirdre Gould

After the Cure

Deirdre Gould · 2013 · After the Cure

A court psychologist and defense lawyer investigate a cured zombie plague—and a possible second outbreak.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie cure · post-apocalypse aftermath · trial of creators · survival society · infected reintegration · psychological aftermath · legal accountability · second outbreak threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · walled city · rebuilding society · post-pandemic · fragile civilization · scarcity setting

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