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Premise labels used: animal experimentation, lab revolt, animal uprising, animal rights, anti-vivisection, animal liberation, sentient animals, collaboration with oppressor, apologist protagonist, worldwide animal rebellion, species solidarity, science vs ethics

Setting labels used: research laboratory, animal testing facility, university lab, zoo, slaughterhouse, wild nature, global animal world, war-era atmosphere, 1970s setting, postwar allegorical world

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Robert Repino · 2015 · War with No Name

A former housecat turned war hero searches a post-human world for a lost dog friend amid ants, violence, and belief wars.

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Premise labels: animal uprising · war against humanity · sentient animals · giant ants · search quest · lost love · human extinction · posthuman society · species conflict · uplifted animals

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · human collapse · animal-dominated world · underground colony · global war · future Earth · urban ruins · strongholds

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2407

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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Premise labels: experimental rejuvenation · cloning · identity crisis · human experimentation · ethical dilemma · body swap · immortality quest · aging · transhumanism · medical experiment · life extension · double self

Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2561

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Animal Kingdom

Iain Rob Wright · 2013

A father and son’s zoo outing turns into a brutal siege when animals worldwide suddenly rise against humans.

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Premise labels: animals attack humans · zoo siege · humanity falls prey · survival stakes · animal uprising

Setting labels: zoo · worldwide catastrophe · contemporary setting · contained location

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2656

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Planet of the Apes

Pierre Boulle · 2001 · Planet of the Apes

A human cast into a planet ruled by intelligent apes must prove his mind and survive a world turned upside down.

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Premise labels: role reversal · human-animal inversion · alien planet · space expedition · civilized apes · captivity · scientific experiment · message in a bottle

Setting labels: outer space · distant planet · alien world · future · scientific society · simian civilization · earth-like planet · zoo/lab setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2659

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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

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2683

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Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1997

A farm animal uprising for equality turns into a chilling study of propaganda, power, and betrayal.

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Premise labels: animal uprising · revolution gone wrong · power corruption · farm rebellion · utopian promise · political allegory · totalitarian takeover

Setting labels: farm setting · English countryside · alternate political reality · allegorical setting · animal society · 20th century setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2739

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Compañeros de caza

Rafael de la Rosa · 2018

A scientist studying a resurrected dinosaur in a lab begins to form an unexpected bond that tests ethics, identity, and desire.

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Premise labels: scientific study · human-animal contact · laboratory research · romantic bond · cross-species romance · unexpected attraction · ethical dilemma · intelligence testing

Setting labels: laboratory · research facility · scientific installation · dinosaur habitat · experimental enclosure · near-future science fiction · high-tech setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2745

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Emily Eternal

M.G. Wheaton · 2019

An artificial consciousness must help save humanity when the sun starts dying far too soon.

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Premise labels: artificial consciousness · dying sun · save humanity · trauma therapist · human genome · race against time · end of the world · humanity vs extinction · nonhuman protagonist

Setting labels: university lab · college campus · Boston university · lab environment · dying Earth · solar apocalypse · scientific research setting · simulated living space

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2764

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We3

Grant Morrison · 2005 · We3

Three ordinary pets are turned into cyborg weapons, then escape and fight to find home while pursued by their makers.

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Premise labels: animal weapon · cyborg pets · runaway experiment · homeward quest · military program · weaponized animals · animal survival · animal testing

Setting labels: secret laboratory · military facility · urban pursuit · woods · warfare setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2768

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2812

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · overpopulated world · wildlife extinction · chimp reserve · hospital · school · urban civilization · conservation setting

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2820

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The Pet Project

Amanda Milo · 2019 · The Pet Project

An alien scientist studies captive humans as pets while trying to manage a breeding program and understand them.

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Premise labels: alien captivity · human pets · breeding program · first contact captivity · species domestication · laboratory breeding · observer narrator · nonhuman perspective

Setting labels: future setting · alien laboratory · breeding facility · captivity setting · spacefaring civilization · Earth humans · galactic setting · futuristic lab

Reader-connected: no

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Distance: 0.2828

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