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Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg

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

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

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The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Premise labels: AI autonomy · human-AI relationship · robot rights · Mars colony · inventor protagonist · workplace ethics · sentient machine

Setting labels: Mars colony · future Mars · space colony · technological future · alternate reality · robot-filled society

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Distance: 0.1163

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

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Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

Setting labels: near future · not-so-distant future · futuristic society · cyborg-like tech · corporate age

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Distance: 0.1492

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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: 0.1509

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QualityLand 2.0

Marc-Uwe Kling · 2020 · QualityLand

In a near-future algorithmic dystopia, interwoven characters face pursuit, politics, and escalating absurdity.

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Premise labels: near-future dystopia · AI society · algorithmic control · surveillance capitalism · level system · digital identity · right to be forgotten · climate crisis · machine therapy · killer robot

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · algorithmic society · digital world · self-driving cars · big-data world

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Distance: 0.1518

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Nieves Delgado · 2017

A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · AI growth · AI integration · social adaptation · identity search · self-definition · difference and conformity · human machine contact · conscious machine · coming of age

Setting labels: near future · future society · laboratory setting · research center · human world · socially integrated technology

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Distance: 0.1522

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Software

Rudy Rucker · 1982 · Ware

An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.

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Premise labels: sentient robots · robot revolt · digital immortality · mind upload · consciousness transfer · posthuman identity · human-robot conflict · moon colony

Setting labels: near future · 2020 · Florida · Moon · Earth-Moon split society · robot colony · retirement enclave

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Distance: 0.1524

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PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Vol.1

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2007 · Pluto [プルートウ]

In a future where robots live beside humans, a detective robot investigates murders targeting the world’s greatest robots.

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Premise labels: robot serial murders · detective investigation · killer on the loose · robots among humans · human-robot coexistence · targeted elite robots · identity questions · artificial intelligence

Setting labels: distant future · futuristic Europe · global setting · robotic society · postwar future · utopian surface · near-future science fiction

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Distance: 0.1555

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

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Premise labels: sentient android · forbidden romance · human robot conflict · android rights · free will · near-future AI

Setting labels: near future · techno-social conflict · robotic society

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Distance: 0.1574

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Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · Pacific Northwest · Seattle · human and robot society · mixed organic/synthetic family · futuristic road trip · post-Rapture world · synthetic underclass

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Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: future city · tech city · dystopian future · near future · high-tech society · AI-integrated world · clinic setting · transhuman future

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Distance: 0.1614

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Robot Uprisings

Daniel H. Wilson · 2014

A themed anthology of short fiction imagining robot uprisings, AI rebellion, and the human cost of future tech gone wrong.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · AI rebellion · technological revolt · machine takeover · robot apocalypse · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · post-robot rebellion · technological future · household technology · AI-mediated world · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1619

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Artificial Artifacts

John Fennec · 2024

Interconnected near-future stories trace AI’s spread through daily life, while a shadowy mogul links the collection together.

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Premise labels: AI future · technology dependency · near future · tech ethics · consciousness and machine intelligence · truth manipulation · human-machine blur · digital identity · future consequences

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · decades-spanning · alternate futures · small rural town · rural America · business world · tech industry · digital world · virtual reality · augmented reality · parallel universes · other space-times

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Distance: 0.1641

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