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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

Themes labels used: 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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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

Themes labels: 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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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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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genetic modification · designer babies · biotechnology · bioterrorism · global conspiracy · gene editing · human enhancement · bioethics

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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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

Themes labels: identity · nature vs nurture · bioethics · human enhancement · genetic inequality · technology and society · cruelty · corruption · human trafficking · moral limits of science · accountability · class divide

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Mutation

Robin Cook · 1998

A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · designer baby · perfect child · superintelligence · bioethical experiment · playing god · child prodigy · genetic tampering · surrogate pregnancy · science vs ethics

Themes labels: bioethics · scientific responsibility · morality vs science · genetic engineering ethics · nature vs nurture · parental ambition · hubris · playing god · dehumanization · limits of science · privacy · medical ethics

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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

Themes labels: humanity · ethics · perfection · power · privilege · class inequality · bodily autonomy · identity · morality · eugenics · technology and society · medical ethics · social control · discrimination · life and death · progress and consequences · vanity · fear of change · human nature

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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

Themes labels: bioethics · intellectual property · patent law · body ownership · consent · scientific responsibility · commercialization of science · corporate greed · medical ethics · law and science · research ethics · human identity · animal rights · surveillance · moral ambiguity · unintended consequences · public policy · sociopolitical critique

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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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Premise labels: human extinction · reproductive crisis · genetic limit · government program · ethical dilemma · sibling bonds

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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Perfect People

Peter James · 2011

A grieving couple turns to designer-baby science to avoid another genetic tragedy, only to face terrifying consequences.

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Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · hereditary disease · grieving parents · ethical dilemma · scientific experiment · eugenics

Themes labels: ethical responsibility · playing God · genetic manipulation · parental love · loss and grief · nature vs nurture · perfection · morality of science · faith vs science · consequences

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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

Themes labels: immortality · genetic control · free will · determinism · stagnation · boredom · power abuse · class hierarchy · eugenics · controlled evolution · humanity · mortality · ethics of reproduction · conscience · pharmaceutical dependence · terror of death · natural selection · uncertainty · social control · revolution · survival

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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

Themes labels: nature vs nurture · parental ambition · free will · determinism · ethics of technology · self-knowledge · regret · risk and reward · control · future anxiety · success anxiety · moral responsibility · life choices · predictability · identity

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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

Themes labels: reproductive rights · bodily autonomy · female autonomy · motherhood · identity · self-worth · genetic determinism · state power · bureaucracy · patriarchy · government control · resistance · fertility · women's empowerment · social worth · choice

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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

Themes labels: individuality · conformity · identity · defectiveness · genetic determinism · social control · free will · love as flaw · nature vs nurture · science ethics · collective punishment · community vs self

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