The Greatest Books of All Time on Genetic Mutation

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Genetic mutation

"Genetic mutation" as a book category encompasses works—most often speculative fiction, sci-fi, thriller, and horror—that center on deliberate or accidental changes to DNA and their consequences. Stories explore mutated individuals or species, biotech experiments, viral outbreaks, designer babies, transhuman enhancements, and the ethical, social, and political fallout of altering life: identity, inequality, discrimination, power, and unintended ecological effects. Tone ranges from clinical near-future realism and techno-thrillers to body-horror and mythic transformations, with common plots involving discovery, survival, corporate or governmental conspiracy, and moral dilemmas about playing with the code of life. The category attracts readers interested in science-driven tension, speculative moral questions, and visceral or philosophical explorations of what it means to be human when biology itself can be rewritten.

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