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Premise labels used: memory wipe, amnesiac protagonist, assassination threat, future society, social experiment, identity crisis, body swap, closed system, undercover mission, post-scarcity future

Setting labels used: far future, 27th century, posthuman society, space colonies, wormhole network, simulation, recreated 20th century, 1950s suburbia, 1990s simulation, sealed environment

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The Golden Age

John C. Wright · 2003 · The Golden Oecumene

An amnesiac heir in a dazzling post-human solar-system utopia probes a buried past that may shatter his world.

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Premise labels: amnesia mystery · identity quest · far-future society · utopian instability · memory recovery · conspiracy discovery · transhuman future · self-investigation

Setting labels: solar system · far future · 10,000 years in future · interplanetary society · utopian society · post-singularity · virtual reality · transhuman society · engineered planets · augmented reality

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Distance: 0.1525

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The Causal Angel

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2014 · Jean le Flambeur

A posthuman master thief races through the Solar System to save allies and stop a reality-shaping war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: master thief · post-singularity society · memory theft · identity fragmentation · solar system conflict · reality manipulation · heist caper · rescue mission · posthuman war

Setting labels: far future · solar system · inner planets · moons · spaceways · cyberspace · virtual realities · physical and virtual overlap · posthuman world

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Distance: 0.1621

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The Quantum Thief

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2010 · Jean le Flambeur

An amnesiac master thief is dragged into a Mars heist where memory, identity, and time itself are the real prizes.

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Premise labels: master thief · memory recovery · prison break · heist mission · mystery investigation · identity recovery · mind theft · cat-and-mouse chase · post-singularity society

Setting labels: Mars · solar system future · far future · post-singularity · posthuman future · moving city · mobile city · virtual prison · digital world · alternative reality · space society · ubiquitous encryption · memory-mediated society · privacy-focused society

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Distance: 0.1628

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Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Premise labels: surveillance · escape · identity crisis · body alteration · bizarre future · persecuted protagonist · artificial reality

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · artificial weather · artificial suns · artificial moons · surveilled society · urban decay · country journey · post-industrial

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Distance: 0.1706

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Volatile Memory

Seth Haddon · 2025 · The Volatile Memory Duology

A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.

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Premise labels: scavenger · sentient AI · body ownership · revenge quest · sapphic romance · tech hunt · manhunt · identity crisis · corporate dystopia · two minds one body

Setting labels: space · far future · dystopian future · corporate society · capitalist dystopia · interstellar setting · tech-saturated world · repressive society · space scavenger culture

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Distance: 0.1718

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The Departure

Neal Asher · 2011 · Owner Trilogy

An amnesiac genius wakes in a brutal dystopia and fights to uncover his past while toppling the regime that wants him dead.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · overthrow corrupt regime · totalitarian future · AI-human interface · revenge quest · survival dystopia · rebellion · population collapse

Setting labels: future Earth · Mars · Earth orbit · space station · dystopian future · 22nd century · solar system · oppressive technocratic state

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Distance: 0.1753

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The Werewolf Principle

Clifford D. Simak · 1994

An amnesiac space traveler returns to a strange future Earth and discovers his body hides multiple minds and a buried secret.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · body-sharing · multiple minds · identity mystery · alien contact · bioengineering · shapeshifting · future Earth · space return · humanity question

Setting labels: future Earth · deep space · alien planet · interstellar future · flying houses · smart home · post-hibernation future · space-age society

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Distance: 0.1780

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Counting Heads

David Marusek · 2005 · Counting Heads

In a far-future, AI- and clone-filled society, an assassination sets off a tangled struggle over family, power, and survival.

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Premise labels: future society · life extension · clone society · AI mediation · assassination fallout · head rescue · corporate power · class divide · overpopulation · conspiracy

Setting labels: far future · 22nd century · future Earth · high-tech society · domed cities · surveillance state

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Distance: 0.1782

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The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley · 1967

An amnesiac convict lands on a brutal prison planet where status comes from crime, and survival means uncovering the truth.

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Premise labels: prison planet · memory wipe · criminal society · status hierarchy · survival quest · escape mission · return to Earth · social inversion · evil-worship society

Setting labels: future Earth · prison planet · alien planet · Omega · dystopian society · utopian Earth · penal colony · habitable planet

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Distance: 0.1798

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Neurovance

Alexandra St. Pierre · 2026

In a near-future memory-tech world, a bullied genius gets pulled into a dangerous, obsessive MM romance.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · memory manipulation · tech company · forbidden technology · stalker romance · identity crisis · forced involvement · hidden past · genius MC · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · futuristic world · dystopian future · corporate setting · high-tech setting · AI · self-driving cars · memory tech · techno-reality

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Distance: 0.1805

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Emergent Properties

Aimee Ogden · 2023

An emancipated AI reporter with 10 missing days must retrace a moon investigation while dodging corporate and family power plays.

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Premise labels: AI reporter · lost memory · corporate conspiracy · investigation · amnesiac protagonist · AI autonomy · parental expectations · moon mystery · self-investigation · identity quest

Setting labels: near future · Moon colony · Earth · Rome · New York · corporate dystopia · post-climate crisis · corporation-controlled world · virtual spaces · blackbox spaces · spacefaring future

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Distance: 0.1807

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Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear · 2019 · White Space

A salvage engineer uncovers ancient alien tech and a conspiracy, forcing a run through deep space and into her own past.

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Premise labels: space salvage · ancient technology · hidden past · pirate chase · corrupt authority · post-scarcity society · identity crisis · galactic threat

Setting labels: far future · deep space · outer galaxy · galactic core · black hole · space stations · post-scarcity civilization · multi-species society · FTL travel

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1814

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