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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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Cover of Off Target by Eve Smith

Off Target

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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Upgrade

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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Cover of You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

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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Cover of Suicide Club by Rachel Heng

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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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.

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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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Cover of Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton

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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Cover of Beggars and Choosers by Nancy Kress

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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Next

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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Cover of Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich · 2017

A pregnant Ojibwe adoptee journals to her unborn child while a chaotic future turns women’s bodies into targets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: reverse evolution · pregnancy crisis · fertility dystopia · pregnant woman on the run · state control of reproduction · biological apocalypse · identity search · birth family search · adoption mystery · apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: near future · Minnesota · reservation · dystopian future · apocalyptic world · theocracy

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Cover of Kiln People by David Brin

Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Cover of Uninvited by Sophie Jordan

Uninvited

Sophie Jordan · 2014 · Uninvited

In a near-future society, a teen prodigy is branded with a violent-gene test result and cast out of her old life.

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Premise labels: kill gene · genetic profiling · future violence · forced testing · ostracized carrier · nature vs nurture

Setting labels: near-future · futuristic United States · high school · privileged school · public school · detention camp · training facility · dystopian society · government control · class segregation

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Cover of Three Days in April by Edward Ashton

Three Days in April

Edward Ashton · 2015

In a near-future city split by genetic enhancement, a mass-death mystery pulls a misfit group into chaos.

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Premise labels: near-future crisis · mass death mystery · genetic divide · augmented humans · anti-mod conflict · government cover-up · hackers and misfits · survival mission · sentient AI conflict · pandemic scare

Setting labels: near future · Baltimore · Hagerstown · future America · United States · dystopian future · high-tech society · surveillance society · cybernetic future · split society

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Cover of Wrath by Shäron Moalem

Wrath

Shäron Moalem, Daniel Kraus · 2022

A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · animal experimentation · uplifted animal · lab escape · animal revolt · near-future biotech

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · urban setting · New York City · biotech startup · dystopian future

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Cover of Dwindle by K.A. Gandy

Dwindle

K.A. Gandy · 2022 · Populations Crumble

In a future with collapsing fertility, a young woman enters a government pairing program and must choose her genetic match.

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Premise labels: forced matchmaking · genetic compatibility · fertility crisis · population collapse · government control · arranged marriage · reproductive dystopia · partner selection

Setting labels: dystopian future · future North America · post-apocalyptic · fertility center · government facility · controlled society · near-future · world on the brink

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Cover of The Games by Ted Kosmatka

The Games

Ted Kosmatka · 2012

In a near-future Olympic bloodsport, a geneticist faces an AI-designed monster unlike anything Earth has seen.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · Olympic bloodsport · designer monsters · battle to the death · AI-created creature · genetic competition · amoral future · state-sponsored biotechnology · science gone wrong

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · United States · Olympics · international event · global competition · alternate future · scientific laboratory · televised arena

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Cover of Halfway to Free by Emma Donoghue

Halfway to Free

Emma Donoghue · 2020

In a future where children are rare and parenthood is discouraged, one woman must choose between safety and motherhood.

Why this is here

Premise labels: population control · childfree society · forbidden parenthood · maternal desire · reproductive choice · climate crisis

Setting labels: near future · 2060 · dystopian future · childless society · post-climate-crisis world · high-tech social control

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Cover of Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Wither

Lauren DeStefano · 2011 · The Chemical Garden

In a dying future, a kidnapped teen bride plots escape from a gilded prison built on genetic failure.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment fallout · shortened lifespan · kidnapped bride · forced marriage · polygamous household · escape attempt · survival under scarcity

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic America · isolated mansion · gilded cage · collapsed society · surveillance house · near-future · alternate reality

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Cover of Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay

Graceful Burdens

Roxane Gay · 2020

In a tightly controlled future, one woman confronts a system that decides who may bear children—and who may only borrow them.

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Premise labels: reproductive control · genetic screening · licensed parenthood · baby library · state control · motherhood denied · women's autonomy

Setting labels: dystopian future · alternate future · not-so-distant future · bureaucratic society · government-regulated society · library setting · patriarchal society

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Cover of Collared by Kari Gregg

Collared

Kari Gregg · 2011

In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.

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Premise labels: genetic mutation · biological disaster · dominant-submissive society · protective collaring · claimed lover · power imbalance · forced dependence · rights stripped away

Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression

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Cover of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner · 1968 · Club of Rome Quartet

A near-future collage of overpopulation, corporate power, espionage, and media overload in a world on edge.

Why this is here

Premise labels: overpopulation crisis · corporate takeover · covert operation · genetic engineering · population control · future shock · information overload

Setting labels: near future · 2010 · global future · overpopulated world · dystopian future · domed city · New York · West Africa · Asian archipelago · corporate state · near-future Earth

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