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Themes labels used: 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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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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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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Extinction

Douglas Preston · 2024 · Cash & Colcord

A Colorado resort built around de-extinct megafauna becomes the scene of a brutal crime and a much darker hidden threat.

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Themes labels: genetic engineering · ethics of science · nature vs technology · greed · morality · hubris · deception · betrayal · corporate secrecy · human ambition · science and responsibility · play God

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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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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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Vitro

Jessica Khoury · 2015 · Corpus

A teen heads to a secret Pacific island to find her mother and discovers lab-grown humans, lies, and danger.

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Themes labels: ethics of science · creation · humanity · free will · nature versus nurture · identity · family betrayal · parent-child bond · moral responsibility · playing god · servitude · control · what makes us human · science versus morality

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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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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 Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells · 1999

A shipwreck survivor lands on a remote island where a disgraced scientist is reshaping animals into humanlike beings.

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Themes labels: science ethics · animal cruelty · human nature · evolution · religion · blasphemy · creation myth · playing God · civilization vs savagery · control and punishment · colonialism · imperialism · racism (contested) · eugenics · genetic engineering · bioethics · identity · instinct vs reason · moral responsibility · nature vs nurture · pain and suffering · religious discipline · scientific progress · hubris · degeneration · social critique

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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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Themes labels: ethical science · playing god · biotechnology · artificial intelligence · sentience · survival · national pride · corporate power · morality of creation · humanity vs monstrosity · science and hubris · consequences of innovation · public spectacle · state violence · dehumanization

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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2011 · I, Robot (Reichert)

A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.

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Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

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Themes labels: medical ethics · human experimentation · technological risk · free will · identity · sanity · paranoia · control · mind-body relation · science and morality · hubris · dehumanization · overreliance on technology · brain and behavior · psychological intervention · playing God

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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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Themes labels: genetic ethics · scientific hubris · mankind playing God · pandemic fear · biosecurity · corporate greed · public health · profit over research · power and control · risk of innovation · body shaming · sexism · racism · misogyny · technology surveillance · good versus evil · survival · moral responsibility · scientific responsibility

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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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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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Baby X

Kira Peikoff · 2024

In a near-future DNA marketplace, a biosecurity guard races to protect a star’s genetic identity as a shocking claim upends everything.

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Themes labels: 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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