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Premise labels used: mind transplant, body swap, animal consciousness, human-animal hybrid, experimental medicine, survival at any cost, species identity, ethical dilemma, animal exploitation, future collapse

Setting labels used: near future, dystopian future, environmental collapse, overpopulated world, wildlife extinction, chimp reserve, hospital, school, urban civilization, conservation setting

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Setting labels: distant future · post-apocalyptic · post-extinction · Earth · isolated communities · small tribes · far future · millennial timespan · geological eons · post-catastrophic world

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Distance: 0.1609

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

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Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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Distance: 0.1624

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I.D.

Emma Ríos · 2016

In a red-tinted dystopian future, three strangers consider a risky body transplant that could change who they are.

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Premise labels: body transplant · brain transplant · identity crisis · body dysphoria · experimental surgery · future medicine · medical speculation · ethical dilemma · self-transformation · question of self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · Mars · part-terraformed Mars · advanced technology · riot-plagued society · scientific future · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1677

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space colonization · undersea habitation · ice age · greenhouse effect · ozone depletion · magnetic reversal · ruined planet · extreme environments

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Distance: 0.1701

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Distance: 0.1756

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Distance: 0.1758

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse

Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet

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Distance: 0.1760

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Upgrade

Blake Crouch · 2022

A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genome hacking · human enhancement · superhuman transformation · upgrade humanity · ethical dilemma · save humanity · genetic modification · family legacy · scientific conspiracy · illegal research · future crisis

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic

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On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Kim Bo-young · 2021

A short story collection where robots, humans, dragons, and time travelers probe evolution, identity, and what counts as life.

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Premise labels: posthuman survival · evolutionary thought experiment · nonhuman protagonists · alternate futures · humanity questioned · sentience test · identity crisis · species boundary

Setting labels: far future · posthuman world · robot society · dystopian future · virtual world · video game world · time travel · alternate future · historical fantasy · mythic setting · interplanetary · post-collapse Earth · alien planet · post-apocalyptic

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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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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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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler · 1995

A Hugo-winning short story collection where Octavia Butler explores alien coexistence, illness, language loss, and the costs of survival.

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Premise labels: alien contact · symbiotic coexistence · genetic disease · post-apocalyptic survival · communication breakdown · thought experiment · moral dilemma · duty versus freedom

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · alien planet · human colony · Earth

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Distance: 0.1830

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