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Premise labels used: genetic engineering, DNA theft, designer babies, reproductive technology, biosecurity, black market DNA, pregnancy uncertainty, future reproduction, bodily autonomy, genetic selection

Setting labels used: 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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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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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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You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Amor Towles · 2019

A man visits a futuristic fertility lab where genetic choices reveal possible lives for his unborn child.

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

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

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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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Change Agent

Daniel Suarez · 2017

In 2045, an Interpol agent hunting illegal gene editors is transformed into the criminal kingpin he’s chasing.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene editing · identity theft · body swap · fugitive on the run · illegal labs · black market biotech · biocrime · human enhancement

Setting labels: near future · 2045 · Southeast Asia · Singapore · Thailand · Myanmar · Asian biotech hub · dystopian future · globalized future

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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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Suicide Club

Rachel Heng · 2018

In a near-future NYC where immortality is rationed, a model citizen is pulled toward a rebel group that rejects eternal life.

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Premise labels: immortality · life extension · illegal death · health-obsessed society · genetic selection · body enhancement · underground resistance · family rupture

Setting labels: near future · near-future NYC · future America · dystopian city · biotech society · high surveillance · strict regulation · immortal elite · social underclass · urban near future

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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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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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Beggars and Choosers

Nancy Kress · 1994 · Sleepless

In a genetically engineered near-future America, rival castes fight over work, power, and who should control advanced technology.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · caste society · class stratification · technology control · societal collapse · economic collapse · future America · scientific ethics · bioengineered elite

Setting labels: future America · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · orbital habitat · island retreat · near-future · technologically degraded society · genetically altered world · class-divided society

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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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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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