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Stephanie Oakes

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Premise labels used: conversion camp, forced conformity, queer repression, state control, identity suppression, coming of age

Setting labels used: dystopian future, post-climate disaster, post-apocalyptic, futuristic, authoritarian society, school setting, finishing school, coastal town, city, isolated facility

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Elites of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2017 · Children of Eden

A brainwashed elite girl begins to uncover her real identity in a controlled future society built on lies.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · memory loss · brainwashing · false reality · artificial world · second child · elite school · underground resistance · restricted society · identity crisis · love triangle · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · artificial society · underground refuge · elite boarding school · cave system · city under surveillance · controlled environment · closed society · futuristic world · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1546

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Uglies, The Collector's Set

Scott Westerfeld · 2009 · Uglies

In a future where turning pretty is mandatory at 16, one girl’s choices expose the cost of beauty control.

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Premise labels: beauty control · coming of age · forced transformation · identity crisis · rebel against system · social control · post-surgery society · truth discovery · beauty standards

Setting labels: futuristic society · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian city · near-future · youth segregation · future society · alternate reality · suburban communities · New Pretty Town · Uglyville

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Distance: 0.1618

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self/less

Aviva · 2021 · self/less

In a surveilled walled city where self-expression is outlawed, a teen uncovers a hidden underground and a fight for freedom.

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Premise labels: banned self-expression · oppressive regime · surveillance state · hidden society · underground resistance · coming of age · leader rises

Setting labels: walled city · post-apocalyptic · underground world · dystopian future · surveillance state · restricted society · city under control

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Distance: 0.1682

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Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.

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Premise labels: beauty standards · body transformation · teen dystopia · brainwashing · government control · conformity · social engineering · rebellion

Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future

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Distance: 0.1708

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Omega's Deception

Lillian Sable · 2018 · Omegas of Pandora

An Omega hiding as a Beta in a brutal dystopia is drawn into the orbit of a powerful Alpha who wants to expose and claim her.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · claimed Omega · power imbalance · forbidden desire · survival sex · class oppression · alpha pursuit · biological destiny · deception

Setting labels: dystopian future · slums · sky city · class hierarchy · polluted world · post-apocalyptic world · futuristic city · oppressive society · scientific worldbuilding · factional power structure · air-scarce society

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Distance: 0.1708

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Viendra le temps du feu

Wendy Delorme · 2021

In a near-future totalitarian state, multiple queer and feminist voices struggle to survive, resist, and imagine freedom.

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Premise labels: totalitarian state · closed borders · book censorship · resistance community · survival under oppression · collective resistance · feminist resistance · queer resistance

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · closed society · border regime · authoritarian state · city-state · oppressive present · alternative commune

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Distance: 0.1736

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Gutter Child

Jael Richardson · 2021

In a divided dystopian society, a girl from the oppressed Gutter must navigate debt, identity, and freedom.

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Premise labels: class divide · indentured servitude · debt bondage · social experiment · coming of age · forged identity · freedom struggle · colonial allegory · institutional oppression

Setting labels: dystopian future · imagined world · alternate reality · colonized society · segregated society · academy setting · institutional setting · Mainland · Gutter

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Distance: 0.1738

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Flow

Clare Littlemore · 2017 · Flow

A flood-ravaged teen is reassigned inside a rigid survival society and uncovers dangerous secrets about how it really works.

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Premise labels: survival · hidden truth · authoritarian society · resource scarcity · social hierarchy · coming of age · rebellion · secretive government · promotion system · separation by roles

Setting labels: flooded future · post-apocalyptic world · walled enclave · strict society · resource-scarce settlement · climate disaster · isolated community · sector-based society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1745

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Children of Eden

Joey Graceffa, Laura L. Sullivan · 2016 · Children of Eden

In a controlled post-apocalyptic city, an illegal second-born girl escapes hiding and gets pulled into rebellion and secrets.

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Premise labels: illegal child · one-child policy · hidden identity · survival · rebellion against system · post-collapse world · sealed city · artificial environment · resource scarcity · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · artificial city · controlled society · future world · inside/outside divide · futuristic dystopia · urban circles

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Distance: 0.1749

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The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter · 1992

A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.

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Premise labels: forced transformation · gender reversal · identity crisis · apocalyptic America · body politics · feminist dystopia · sexual politics · journey westward

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1774

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Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

Julian K. Jarboe · 2020

A queer speculative story collection uses body horror, myth, and dystopia to explore transness, survival, and belonging.

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Premise labels: queer fabulism · body transformation · survival · social critique · apocalyptic decline · identity search · community survival · memory and myth

Setting labels: near future · mid-apocalyptic · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · moon colony · alternative reality · contemporary setting · city under climate threat · church shelter · science fictional world · fantastical world

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Distance: 0.1776

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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity

Lee Mandelo · 2025

A queer-and-trans speculative anthology imagines futures of resistance, desire, survival, and uneasy hope.

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Premise labels: queer futurity · trans futurity · speculative futures · resistance against oppression · queer community under pressure · future identity

Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · alternate future · near-future America · space station · spaceships · cyberpunk city · futuristic city · Appalachian forests · underwater city · high school · fictional future

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Distance: 0.1779

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