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Premise labels used: time displacement, mind transfer, body swapping, afterlife technology, scientific afterlife, corporate immortality, fish out of water, future society, publicity stunt, identity crisis

Setting labels used: 1958, 2110, future New York, dystopian future, scientific afterlife, corporate future, post-death society, world of body transfer, high-tech future, urban future

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Consider Her Ways and Others

John Wyndham · 1961

A Wyndham short-story collection of time slips, alternate realities, satire, and a disturbing women-only future.

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Premise labels: time displacement · alternate reality · parallel worlds · body swap · memory loss · future society · female-led society · missing men · reproductive control · demon summoning · lost love · celebrity transformation

Setting labels: mid-20th century · 1950s England · 1960s · near future · future society · alternate history · parallel universe · post-men world · matriarchy · dystopian future · urban Britain · English countryside

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Distance: 0.1802

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Los cuerpos del verano

Martín Felipe Castagnet · 2012

In a near-future Argentina, the dead can return in purchased bodies, but revenge and identity complicate survival.

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Premise labels: body transfer · digital afterlife · consciousness upload · immortality · reincarnation · corpse reuse · body commodification

Setting labels: near future · Argentina · internet-based afterlife · dystopian society · urban everyday life · post-death society

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Distance: 0.1927

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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: 0.1949

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Transhumanism Inc.

Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин · 2021 · Tranhumanism Inc.

In a far-future world of brain jars, chips, and class control, linked stories probe power, love, and what remains human.

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Premise labels: future wealth gap · brain-in-a-jar · immortality · elite afterlife · posthuman society · technological class divide · controlled access

Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-carbon world · virtual reality · banked-brain society · dystopian future · posthuman world

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Distance: 0.1957

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Anyone

Charles Soule · 2019

A scientist’s failed Alzheimer’s experiment creates body-swapping tech that reshapes society and exposes its dark uses.

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Premise labels: consciousness transfer · body swapping · future tech · black market tech · Alzheimer's research · identity crisis · technology gone awry · corporate control · legal gray market · world-changing invention

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · realistic future · Ann Arbor · Michigan · global · urban future · black market underworld · corporate future · regulated technology

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Distance: 0.1960

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Hollow World

Michael J. Sullivan · 2014

A terminally ill man time-travels into a subterranean future utopia and is drawn into a murder mystery and moral reckoning.

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Premise labels: time travel gamble · terminal illness · future cure · future society · utopian dilemma · murder mystery · fish out of water · identity crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: far future · underground world · post-scarcity · utopia-dystopia · Earth future · subterranean society · distant future · advanced technology · climate change aftermath · post-catastrophe

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Distance: 0.1976

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Mindbreaker

Kate Dylan · 2023 · Mindwalker

A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.

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Premise labels: mind upload · robot body · identity crisis · body autonomy · corporate control · anti-tech cult · experimental technology · terminal illness · save or betray · corporate conspiracy · humanity question · memory gaps · hidden agenda · escape and expose

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-nuclear war · radioactive world · futuristic city · future America · future New York · dystopian world · tech-dominated society · fringe cult · fringe society · corporate future · neon city · wasteland · robotic body

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Distance: 0.1978

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Version Control

Dexter Palmer · 2016

A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.

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Premise labels: near future · causality violation · time travel · marriage crisis · grief · alternate reality · technology and society

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · United States · information age · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.2005

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Dr. Futurity

Philip K. Dick · 1976

A doctor stranded in a death-worshipping future must survive a society that outlawed healing and time itself.

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Premise labels: time travel · future society · doctor in future · medical taboo · healing as crime · death-affirming society · eugenic society · racially mixed future · past intervention · causal paradox

Setting labels: future society · distant future · post-crash future · 16th century California · Mars · American West Coast

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Distance: 0.2011

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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Philip K. Dick · 2017

Ten Philip K. Dick short stories collected as the source material for Electric Dreams, built around reality, tech, and human anxiety.

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Premise labels: alternate reality · reality confusion · consumerism · technology critique · dystopia · alien invasion · psychic abilities · space travel · postwar future · privacy rights

Setting labels: near-future · future America · 1950s America · Cold War era · spacefaring future · dystopian future · alternate reality · post-apocalyptic future · authoritarian society

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Distance: 0.2075

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Spectators

Brian K. Vaughan · 2025

Two ghosts drift through a collapsing future, watching humanity’s appetite for sex, violence, and spectacle.

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Premise labels: voyeurism · sex and violence · ghost story · afterlife observation · end times · apocalypse · spectatorhood · social commentary

Setting labels: future New York City · dystopian future · afterlife · post-apocalyptic · world in collapse · limbo · earthbound ghosts · futuristic city

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Distance: 0.2077

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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: 0.2133

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