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Premise labels used: robot lover, first love, forbidden love, human-robot relationship, coming of age, identity quest, runaway romance, class divide, perfect lover, artificial intelligence

Setting labels used: future Earth, post-apocalyptic Earth, decaying slums, privileged elite, class stratification, floating mansions, futuristic city, polluted landscape, alternate future, technologically advanced future

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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

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Premise labels: android tutor · forbidden love · coming of age · robot rights · artificial intelligence · human-machine relationship · isolated childhood · first love · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · post-disaster · dystopian future · alternate future · climate-changed world · small-town America · isolated house · moon base · robots in daily life

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Distance: 0.1426

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Dustwalker

Tiffany Roberts · 2023

In a shattered future, a scavenging robot and a desperate human form a forbidden bond that could change everything.

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Premise labels: robot protagonist · human-robot romance · forbidden romance · survival romance · missing sibling · protective bargain · search for purpose

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian city · wasteland · desert landscape · isolated settlement · segregated society · far future

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Distance: 0.1472

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Service Model

A protocol-bound robot valet kills his master and wanders a collapsed future world searching for purpose.

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Premise labels: robot valet · murder mystery · purpose search · employment quest · post-human world · artificial labor · self-discovery · autonomy

Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · post-human world · robot-run society · collapsed civilization · manor house · decaying infrastructure

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Distance: 0.1661

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company

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Distance: 0.1689

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The Last Human

Lee Bacon · 2019 · The Last Human

A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · last human · forbidden human · quest · road trip · unlikely allies · questioning propaganda · cross-species friendship · hidden survivors · planetary recovery

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future

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Distance: 0.1702

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

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Premise labels: artificial friend · robot companion · near future · genetic enhancement · lonely child · humanity question · what is love · what makes a person · class inequality · distant narrator

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · domestic setting · storefront · wealthy household · home schooling · unequal society

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Distance: 0.1788

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The Wrong Unit

Rob Dircks · 2016

A service robot is mistaken for the wrong unit and sent on a perilous mission with a human infant.

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Premise labels: AI gone wrong · robot caretaker · humanity in captivity · wrong identity · delivery quest · save humanity · robot uprising · resistance mission

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic future · Earth · controlled society · sanctuary · human prison camp · farmland · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1822

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Skyn

Nikki Payne · 2025

In a class-rigged dystopia, an unmodified woman becomes a cyborg bride and uncovers power, desire, and revolt.

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Premise labels: underground versus surface · body modification hierarchy · skin fetishization · forced marriage · marriage of convenience · revenge deal · elite family intrigue · cyborg-human romance · class mobility · escape plot

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · underground mines · surface elite · cybernetic society · class-stratified world · cyberpunk · industrial underground · upper world · world below and above

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Distance: 0.1841

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Hold Back the Stars

Katie Khan · 2017

Stranded in space with 90 minutes of air left, two lovers relive a forbidden relationship in a tightly controlled future.

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Premise labels: forbidden love · stranded in space · race against time · survival story · love under restriction · first love · utopian society

Setting labels: outer space · future Earth · utopia · dystopian society · post-war world · space survival · future Europe · asteroid field · spacecraft · post-apocalyptic future

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Distance: 0.1860

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Setting labels: future Earth · twenty-first century · far future · robotic society · outer space · Moon · colonies · near-future extrapolation · technological future

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Distance: 0.1937

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Chobits, Vol. 1

Clamp · 2002 · ちょびっツ [Chobits]

A broke student finds a discarded humanoid computer in the trash and becomes entangled in her mystery and their bond.

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Premise labels: found robot · humanoid computer · AI mystery · boy meets robot girl · near-future technology · human-machine relationship · unaffordable tech

Setting labels: near future · Tokyo · urban Japan · tech-saturated society · computer-mediated life · humanlike androids · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1955

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Setting labels: future dystopia · overpopulated world · futuristic society · technological society · fake garden · corporate future · earthbound future

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Distance: 0.1961

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