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PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Vol.1

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki

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

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

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki, Osamu Tezuka · 2009 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective and a boy robot unravel a string of murders targeting the world's strongest artificial beings.

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Premise labels: robot serial murders · detective investigation · targeted victims · AI consciousness · memory tampering · geopolitical conspiracy · humanlike robots · serial killer mystery

Setting labels: distant future · alternate reality · postwar world · global setting · Japan · Europe · Persia · political sci-fi · robot-integrated society

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Distance: 0.0641

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 8

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2010 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective hunts a killer amid human-robot tensions, buried memories, and a looming apocalyptic threat.

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Premise labels: robot detective · serial murders · murder mystery · human-robot coexistence · missing memories · anti-robot violence · war aftermath · apocalyptic threat · investigation

Setting labels: future world · human-robot coexistence · postwar setting · global politics · futuristic society · interpol-like investigation · apocalyptic fiction

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Distance: 0.0882

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The Rest of the Robots

Isaac Asimov · 1968 · Robot, chronological order

Asimov’s robot short stories return with new cases, new dilemmas, and fresh twists on the Three Laws of Robotics.

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Premise labels: robot stories · robot anthology · three laws of robotics · human-robot interaction · artificial intelligence

Setting labels: future science fiction · robotic future · Earth · Moon · Jupiter · mid-20th century future

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Distance: 0.1441

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Service Model

A protocol-bound robot valet kills his master and wanders a collapsed future world searching for purpose.

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Premise labels: robot valet · murder mystery · purpose search · employment quest · post-human world · artificial labor · self-discovery · autonomy

Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · post-human world · robot-run society · collapsed civilization · manor house · decaying infrastructure

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1555

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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: 0.1706

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iPhuck 10

Victor Pelevin · 2017

A self-writing police AI investigates crimes and the art market while spiraling into satire about love, tech, and identity.

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Premise labels: AI detective · police algorithm · crime investigation · ghostwriting · art market · contemporary art · future love · future culture · surveillance society · virtual sex

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · postmodern future · surveillance society · art world · digital world · virtual reality · technological future · Russian future

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Chobits, Vol. 1

Clamp · 2002 · ちょびっツ [Chobits]

A broke student finds a discarded humanoid computer in the trash and becomes entangled in her mystery and their bond.

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Premise labels: found robot · humanoid computer · AI mystery · boy meets robot girl · near-future technology · human-machine relationship · unaffordable tech

Setting labels: near future · Tokyo · urban Japan · tech-saturated society · computer-mediated life · humanlike androids · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1724

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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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Distance: 0.1726

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Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

Jeff Lemire · 2015 · Descender

A childlike robot wakes in a galaxy that outlawed androids and becomes the target of factions seeking his secrets.

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Premise labels: robot outlawing · robot survival · child robot · galactic mystery · bounty hunted · robot-hunt · AI conflict · human machine conflict · missing family · cataclysm aftermath

Setting labels: distant future · galaxy · space opera setting · multiple planets · mining colony · moon colony · galactic council · post-catastrophe universe · interplanetary civilization · futuristic world

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Distance: 0.1731

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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: 0.1758

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And Shall Machines Surrender

Benjanun Sriduangkaew · 2019 · Machine Mandate

On a Dyson-sphere utopia run by AIs, two estranged women investigate sudden suicides among human-AI hosts.

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Premise labels: AI ruled society · human-AI hybrids · mystery investigation · suicide mystery · second chance romance · political intrigue · exes reunite · cyberpunk utopia · identity crisis · power struggle

Setting labels: Dyson sphere · space city · far future · post-singularity · AI utopia · cyberpunk future · Chinese-inspired setting · queernormative society · interstellar politics · transhuman setting

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Distance: 0.1774

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