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Setting labels used: Moon, Earth, 1959, 1960, space race, Cold War, near-future, lunar labyrinth, laboratory, corporate-military project, sensory deprivation, telepathic link, speculative near future
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In a near-future NASA crisis, a PR man and a billionaire chase clues to a 50-year-old Moon landing secret.
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Setting labels: near future · 2019 · United States · NASA · Apollo era flashbacks · 1960s · Cold War era · lunar exploration · space program
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Distance: 0.1739
A near-future lunar discovery sparks a tense U.S.-China-Russia race to reach an alien artifact first.
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Setting labels: near future · moon · far side of the moon · dark side of the moon · Earth · government space program · international geopolitics · space race era
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Distance: 0.1749
Twelve chronologically arranged Lem stories probe alien contact, AI, and human limits with irony, dread, and invention.
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Setting labels: space · alien worlds · Earth · mid-century future · Cold War-era context · labyrinthine spaces · astronautic / spacecraft settings
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Distance: 0.1786
In an alternate Cold War, animals lost in space may be alive, and a truth-seeker hunts for what happened.
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Setting labels: Cold War · 1950s · 1960s · near future · alternate history · space program · Earth orbit · East Germany · West Berlin
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Distance: 0.1830
A moon-obsessed teen wins a space suit, then gets swept into a far stranger adventure that tests science and nerve.
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Setting labels: near future · 1950s future · small-town America · Moon · Pluto · deep space · intergalactic · lunar base · space station
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Distance: 0.1852
A debt-ridden psi-security worker finds reality unraveling after a lunar mission, while ads for Ubik intrude everywhere.
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Setting labels: near future · 1992 · lunar colony · Earth · corporate dystopia · cold-pac facility · cryogenic suspension · alternative reality · post-death limbo · American future
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Distance: 0.1855
A mysterious hollow asteroid in Earth orbit becomes the battleground for science, geopolitics, and a warning from the future.
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Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · Earth orbit · cold war era · space habitat · alternate universe · far future · posthuman future
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Distance: 0.1895
A cynical space nurse gets pulled into a wild 1969 conspiracy in a JFK-survived alternate America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1960s · 1969 · Moon · space station · moon colony · alternate America · retro-futuristic · historical alternate reality · space race era · New York City · orbit
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Distance: 0.1917
In a future Moon ruled by rival families, the final battle for power turns into a fierce fight over the Moon’s future.
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Setting labels: future Moon · near-future · lunar colony · colonized Moon · Earth-Moon tension · industrial Moon · low gravity environment · corporate society · lunar society
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Distance: 0.1985
A signal from deep space gives humanity shocking knowledge, forcing scientists and leaders to confront secrecy, faith, and power.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · space agency · NASA-like setting · Cold War context · post-Cold War update · global politics · religious institutions
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Distance: 0.1997
A massive New Wave SF anthology of original, provocative stories framed by intros and afterwords, with wildly uneven results.
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Setting labels: late 1960s · early 1970s · 1972 context · Cold War era · Vietnam era · futuristic settings · alternate worlds · parallel universes · postapocalyptic worlds · alien planets · space future · near-future speculation
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Distance: 0.2002
A divorcing CIA worker collides with a moon society run by former asylum patients, a spy plot, and a telepathic slime mold.
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Setting labels: Alpha Centauri system · moon colony · abandoned psychiatric institution · future Earth · interplanetary politics · postwar setting · spacefaring future · cold war backdrop · run-down conapt
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Distance: 0.2004
