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Premise labels used: de-extinction, mammoth revival, consciousness upload, animal cognition, poaching conflict, conservation mission, species survival, extinction ethics, human-animal interface, revenge

Themes labels used: extinction, conservation, animal rights, poaching, ivory trade, ecological collapse, human greed, ethics of science, memory, identity, personhood, nonhuman consciousness, grief, revenge, hope, responsibility, exploitation, capitalism, moral paradox, human impact

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Venomous Lumpsucker

Ned Beauman · 2022

In a near-future extinction economy, two unlikely allies hunt a possibly intelligent fish after a cyberattack upends everything.

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Premise labels: extinction economy · biobank sabotage · endangered species hunt · intelligent animal · near-future collapse · marketized conservation · corporate ecology · climate catastrophe

Themes labels: mass extinction · climate change · capitalism · neoliberalism · environmental destruction · species value · animal intelligence · human responsibility · ecosystem loss · commodification · grief · guilt · moral hypocrisy · technology and ethics · bureaucracy

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The Island of Last Things

Emma Sloley · 2025

At the last zoo on Earth, a rule-bound keeper is drawn into a daring plan that could save animals or destroy everything.

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Premise labels: last zoo · animal extinction · zookeeper dilemma · sanctuary quest · animal rescue · captivity vs freedom · conservation ethics · dying world

Themes labels: animal rights · animal welfare · conservation ethics · captivity · freedom · extinction · ecological collapse · climate change · late-stage capitalism · corporate greed · black market · corruption · scarcity · hope and despair · sacrifice · grief · responsibility · humanity and nature · human-animal bond · stewardship · preservation · liberation · moral ambiguity · survival · loss

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Przewalskis hest

Maja Lunde · 2019 · Klimakvartetten

Three lives across centuries are linked by Przewalski horses, as survival, conservation, and family collide.

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Premise labels: endangered species · rewilding · species extinction · climate collapse · family survival · human-animal bond · conservation mission · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: extinction · survival · climate change · environmental collapse · conservation · rewilding · parenthood · family · hope · loss · grief · sacrifice · human responsibility · nature versus human interference · migration · addiction · feminism · sexuality · freedom · activism · love · forgiveness · identity

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The Afterlife Project

Tim Weed · 2025

Two timelines race against human extinction: one scientist survives the deep future, while others search for a way to continue the species.

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Premise labels: human extinction · species survival · future mission · last chance · fertility quest · scientific rescue · deep future · post-collapse survival · lonely survivor · repopulation

Themes labels: climate collapse · human extinction · hope and despair · stewardship · interconnectedness · ecological responsibility · legacy · resilience · meaning-making · ethics · scientific responsibility · love · faith · nature persists · human fragility · endangered future · overconsumption · civilizational collapse · mortality · time

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Themes labels: humanity · evolution · survival · extinction · reproduction · ecology · technology vs nature · cloning · AI ethics · memory · identity · belonging · love · creation and destruction · community · collective life · faith · gender roles · destructive tendencies · species continuity

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After World

Debbie Urbanski · 2023

An AI archivist records the last human on Earth as civilization ends and the planet rewilds.

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Premise labels: last human · AI narrator · human extinction · rewilding · digital afterlife · climate collapse

Themes labels: climate collapse · human extinction · environmental stewardship · rewilding · survival · loneliness · motherhood · memory · storytelling · identity · posthumanism · love · grief · sacrifice · ethics of AI · humanity · ecological guilt · digital immortality · choice vs coercion

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Fauna

Christiane Vadnais · 2020

In a flooded near-future town, a biologist and other recurring figures confront a climate-warped world where humans begin to change.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · environmental revenge · human mutation · parasite infection · evolutionary change · nature reclaiming · biologist protagonist · end times · human-animal boundary

Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · evolution · mutation · species boundaries · humanity and nature · animality · body transformation · survival · despair · horror of change · life cycles · dehumanization · ecological revenge · humility before nature · classification and naming · the end of the world · transformation as renewal

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Sirene

Laura Pugno · 2007

In a sun-scorched dystopian future, a guarded man in underwater society becomes entangled with captive sirens.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · human-animal boundary · animal exploitation · captivity · forbidden desire · inter-species reproduction · resource scarcity · sexual exploitation · ecological collapse

Themes labels: specism · feminism · ecofeminism · environmental destruction · animal welfare · capitalism · patriarchy · violence · consumption · dehumanization · power · survival · morality · body commodification · sexual exploitation · human cruelty · posthumanism · human nature · gendered violence

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The Thinning

Inga Simpson · 2024

In near-future Australia, a teen and an uncertain ally race toward a solar eclipse amid climate collapse and social control.

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Premise labels: near future collapse · climate dystopia · environmental degradation · eclipse quest · off-grid survival · unlikely partnership · fugitive journey · restore nature · human evolution · reproductive control

Themes labels: climate change · extinction · biodiversity loss · environmental destruction · human impact · what it means to be human · identity · responsibility · survival · hope · reproductive autonomy · bodily autonomy · corporate greed · fascism · technology overreach · science and ethics · activism · connection to nature · First Nations sovereignty · indigenous knowledge · human diversity · future consequences

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Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1999

A ghost narrator recounts how one doomed 1986 cruise helped shape humanity’s evolutionary future.

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Premise labels: apocalypse aftermath · survivor group · evolutionary future · marooned island · vacation cruise · human extinction · species rebirth · devolution · Darwinian premise · global collapse

Themes labels: evolution · natural selection · intelligence · human nature · survival · humanism · misanthropy · war · greed · consumerism · environmental collapse · ecology · fate · free will · adaptation · reproduction · species extinction · technology · social satire · religion vs science · meaning of humanity · self-destruction

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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Nancy Kress · 2012

Three timelines collide as Earth falls, survivors steal hope from the past, and a mathematician uncovers the pattern.

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Premise labels: human extinction · environmental catastrophe · time travel · last survivors · gene pool recovery · kidnapped children · mystery investigation · alien shelter · civilization restart

Themes labels: environmental destruction · humanity vs nature · survival · repopulation · moral ambiguity · scientific responsibility · human culpability · hope after collapse · end of civilization · collective survival · genetics · time and consequence

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Themes labels: human extinction · environmental collapse · ecological warning · adaptation · evolutionary change · technological dependence · genetic engineering ethics · eugenics · misanthropy · survival · dehumanization · biodiversity loss · human pride · limits of progress · sentience

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