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Themes labels used: ethics, eugenics, fertility, infertility, motherhood, parental choice, medical intervention, nature versus nurture, identity, perfectionism, power and control, scientific responsibility, body autonomy, consequences, deception, consumer medicine, social pressure, playing god, disability, human experimentation

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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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Themes labels: reproductive rights · bodily autonomy · privacy · consent · ethics of science · bioethics · eugenics · discrimination · equity · agency · identity · parenthood · class inequality · government overreach · playing god · fame and privacy · moral ambiguity · selection vs chance · genetic determinism · stalking

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The Beauty of the End

Lauren Stienstra · 2025

Twin sisters join a government reproduction program after humanity learns extinction is encoded in its DNA.

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Themes labels: reproductive ethics · bodily autonomy · women's autonomy · eugenics · utilitarianism · individual vs society · moral compromise · grief · hope · survival · consent · adoption · human trafficking · medical ethics · science and ethics · government control · parenthood · childfree choice

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Cover of Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen by Marc Elsberg

Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen

Marc Elsberg · 2016

A biotech thriller in which genetic engineering links a mysterious death, altered crops, and enhanced children worldwide.

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Themes labels: ethics · bioethics · scientific progress · human enhancement · parental choice · nature versus intervention · power and control · corporate monopoly · global inequality · scientific responsibility · fear of future · morality of experimentation · food security · genetic destiny

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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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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · survival · family · moral ambiguity · species rights · othering · prejudice · corporate greed · scientific responsibility · power abuse · compromise · acceptance · motherhood · coming of age · apocalypse ethics · nature vs nurture

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Cover of The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Shelley Wood

The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

Shelley Wood · 2024

A leap-year baby who ages four times slower hides in plain sight as her family races through a century of history.

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Themes labels: aging · longevity · family · secrecy · identity · belonging · love · duty · ethics · eugenics · genetics · scientific progress · body autonomy · women's rights · motherhood · difference and otherness · medical ethics · choice vs destiny

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vN

Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression

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Cover of De engelenmaker by Stefan Brijs

De engelenmaker

Stefan Brijs · 2006

A returning village doctor arrives with three secretive, disfigured children, stirring suspicion around cloning, faith, and power.

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Themes labels: cloning · bioethics · medical ethics · science and religion · good and evil · morality · creation · responsibility · parenthood · childhood trauma · otherness · prejudice · difference · madness · faith · fanaticism · free will · death · immortality · genetics · identity

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Cover of Shock by Robin Cook

Shock

Robin Cook · 2006

Two graduate students take a fertility-clinic egg donation job to uncover what became of their eggs—and uncover far more.

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Themes labels: Medical ethics · Reproductive rights · Identity · Personhood · Morality · Privacy · Confidentiality · Feminism · Female agency · Scientific ambition · Cloning ethics · Infertility · Commercialized medicine · Corruption · Consequences

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Cover of To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert

To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2011 · I, Robot (Reichert)

A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.

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Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death

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Cover of Parti e omicidi by Sayaka Murata

Parti e omicidi

Sayaka Murata · 2024

Four uncanny tales set in a future Tokyo where birth, sex, marriage, and death obey radically different rules.

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Themes labels: reproduction · birth rate · motherhood · death · murder · morality · social norms · freedom · body autonomy · sexuality · identity · conformity · ethics · human nature · technology · medical progress · euthanasia · suicide · generational conflict · social critique

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