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Premise labels used: scientific experiment, unauthorized research, intelligent cells, self-experimentation, internal invasion, accidental outbreak, biotech hubris, microbial intelligence

Setting labels used: biotechnology lab, modern-day America, North America, urban collapse, post-disaster landscape, lab-to-world scale

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Victim Zero

Joshua Guess · 2013 · The Fall

A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.

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Premise labels: bioengineered outbreak · scientist protagonist · accidental apocalypse · cure quest · virus mutation · airborne infection · post-apocalyptic survival · moral dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States

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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.

Why this is here

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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Incubation

Adrienne Lecter · 2015 · Green Fields

A lab biologist is trapped in a biotech siege that may be the hidden start of a zombie apocalypse.

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Premise labels: zombie outbreak origin · bio lab conspiracy · hostage situation · biotech thriller · virus release · corporate secrecy · survival under siege

Setting labels: biotech lab · biomedical facility · city under collapse · near-future apocalypse · flu epidemic backdrop · contained siege setting · workplace takeover

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Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

Mira Grant · 2015 · Newsflesh

A post-apocalyptic virologist runs a secret lab and faces an unexpected intruder, spies, and dangerous secrets.

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Premise labels: underground lab · virology lab · post-apocalypse survival · lab attack · spy infiltration · mysterious intruder · scientific crisis · outlaw science

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · zombie apocalypse · underground lab · illegal lab · scientific compound · forest lab · alternate Earth · post-Rising · post-series

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Aliens: Infiltrator

Weston Ochse · 2021 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

A Weyland-Yutani scientist arrives at a remote station and finds secret experiments, sabotage, and Xenomorph chaos.

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Premise labels: corporate experiment · scientific research · alien artifact lure · contained outbreak · genetic experimentation · corporate espionage · hidden infiltrator · remote facility disaster · bioweapon development · monster creation

Setting labels: space station · remote planet · Weyland-Yutani facility · isolated base · future setting · corporate lab · off-world colony · science station · Alien universe · biohazard lab

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Hunger

Jeremiah Knight, Jeremy Robinson · 2015 · Hunger

A GMO breakthrough ends world hunger, then rewrites every eater into a monster in a desperate survival chase.

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Premise labels: runaway science · bioengineering gone wrong · food supply crisis · genetic mutation outbreak · survival quest · cross-country journey · monster apocalypse · corporate science disaster · predator transformation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · United States · cross-country · farmhouse · biodome · scientific complex · lab quest · monstrous wilderness · collapsed civilization

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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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This Vicious Cure

Emily Suvada · 2020 · This Mortal Coil

A hacked-and-haunted hero races through a virus-ravaged future to stop a new power struggle over life, death, and control.

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Premise labels: gene hacking · virus outbreak · cure race · prevent death · global stakes · corporate control · humanity at risk · identity loss · memory loss

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · surface world · bunkers · virtual reality · simulation · lab setting · world ravaged by virus · dystopian future

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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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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

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The Screwfly Solution

Raccoona Sheldon, James Tiptree Jr. · 1977

A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.

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Premise labels: alien manipulation · femicide outbreak · sexual violence · gendered violence · misogyny · extinction threat · human takeover

Setting labels: dystopian future · global crisis · worldwide collapse · laboratory setting · Mexico · United States · apocalyptic Earth

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Mount Dragon

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 2005

A secret desert lab’s attempt to engineer a flu cure spirals into a deadly biosecurity crisis and survival chase.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · biotechnology · virus outbreak · pandemic threat · secret lab · medical breakthrough · corporate conspiracy · human enhancement · bioweapon risk · scientific ethics · desert facility · remote research station

Setting labels: New Mexico · desert setting · remote research facility · high-security lab · psychiatric hospital · corporate headquarters · biohazard lab · Level 5 lab · isolated workplace · near nuclear test site · contemporary setting · mid-90s setting

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