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Premise labels used: smart drug, cognitive enhancement, addiction thriller, designer drug, brain enhancement
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A brain-damaged man receives experimental treatment that makes him exponentially smarter—and increasingly unlike human.
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Premise labels: superintelligence · brain injury recovery · experimental treatment · genius drug · human enhancement · cognitive escalation · pattern recognition · body control · language invention · battle of minds
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Distance: 0.1941
A scientist’s IQ-boosting breakthrough draws her team into betrayal, pursuit, and a threat that could end humanity.
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Premise labels: enhanced intelligence · IQ enhancement · humanity-saving technology · scientific breakthrough · hidden organization · on-the-run
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Distance: 0.2645
A disgraced neuroscientist hunts a resurfaced god-drug across near-future Canada, chased by faith, fallout, and old secrets.
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Premise labels: designer drugs · drug revolution · god drug · hallucinated deity · schizophrenia treatment · drug fallout · drug chase · redemption quest · spiritual experience · street drug
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Distance: 0.2662
A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experiment that transforms his mind, then forces him to face the cost.
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Premise labels: intelligence enhancement · experimental surgery · human subject · lab animal parallel · intellectual transformation · mental disability · ethical experiment
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Distance: 0.2671
A gang member chases a lost loved one through feather-triggered dream realities in near-future Manchester.
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Premise labels: drug world · shared hallucination · lost loved one · rescue quest · reality escape · addiction · virtual reality · feather-based drug
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Distance: 0.2677
In 2050 Los Angeles, a teen gamer-hacker uncovers a virtual drug conspiracy that can hijack implanted brains.
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Premise labels: brain implant · virtual drug · hacker heroine · digital conspiracy · online life · cybersecurity · tech-enabled crime · drug trafficking · remote control
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Distance: 0.2732
A young scientist is coerced into a spy mission after a mind-linking nano-drug becomes a global security threat.
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Premise labels: mind link · brain interface · drug tech · human enhancement · posthuman transition · illegal technology · government crackdown · spy coercion · technological arms race · hive mind · coercion technology · mind control · knowledge transfer
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Distance: 0.2844
A man tests a strange drug in Cornwall and becomes obsessed with watching, but not entering, the medieval past.
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Premise labels: time travel drug · hallucinogenic drug · mental time travel · observer only · addiction · escapism · midlife crisis
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Distance: 0.2940
A fragmented junkie nightmare follows an addict through sex, drugs, paranoia, and control in a surreal anti-novel.
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Premise labels: drug addiction · junkie life · alter ego narrator · obscenity · censorship · social control · alienation
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Distance: 0.2943
Two siblings are lured into addiction by personified drugs competing to bring them to the Party first.
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Premise labels: drug personification · addiction crisis · prescription drug misuse · opioid crisis · siblings at risk · overdose race · cautionary tale · substance abuse
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Distance: 0.3000
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
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Distance: 0.3001
A coma survivor gains touch-based visions of the future and must decide whether to stop a rising political threat.
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Premise labels: psychic awakening · coma recovery · touch-based visions · gift and curse · future sight · political menace · serial killer
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Distance: 0.3003
