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Premise labels used: postwar aftermath, time travel, relativistic travel, future jump, alienated veterans, escape plan, search for the unknown, fighting a new system, social exile, mystery

Setting labels used: postwar future, distant future, spacefaring future, colony planet, barren planet, hive mind society, cloned society, military retirement colony, interstellar travel, Earth future

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Lies, Inc.

Philip K. Dick · 1984

In a crowded future, a suspicious heir crosses space to test a one-way colony’s promise of paradise.

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Premise labels: overpopulation crisis · one-way teleportation · colonized paradise · corporate cover-up · truth-seeking voyage · interstellar investigation · space colonization · security state

Setting labels: future Earth · overpopulated world · space colony · distant planet · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · paraworlds · dystopian future · postwar future

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The Quantum Garden

Derek Künsken · 2019 · The Quantum Evolution

A quantum-savvy con man must use stolen time gates to save his people while outrunning paradox, enemies, and guilt.

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Premise labels: time travel mission · posthuman survival · heist fallout · genocide prevention · rescue mission · political intrigue · quantum cognition · wormhole chase

Setting labels: far future · interstellar civilization · quantum realm · spacefaring society · time gates · wormholes · asteroid homeworld · brown dwarf system · ice world · military/political future

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report

Philip K. Dick · 1987

Early Philip K. Dick stories of warped reality, war, precognition, and mind-bending ideas in a classic SF collection.

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Premise labels: high-concept ideas · future shock · paranoia · precognition · time travel · post-apocalyptic survival · sentient machines · memory manipulation · media manipulation · alternate reality · alien encounter · war aftermath · technology backlash · identity crisis · twist premise

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · spacefaring future · near future · dystopian future · alternate reality · interplanetary setting · Cold War era future · America · technological society · classic SF future

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Cities in Flight

James Blish · 2005 · Cities in Flight

Four connected future-history novels follow Earth cities that become wandering space workers through the galaxy.

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Premise labels: flying cities · anti-gravity travel · immortality drug · migrant city-states · galactic labor · future history · civilization decline · end of universe · spacefaring society

Setting labels: future Earth · solar system · interstellar space · Jupiter · Cold War future · early 21st century (in-text) · millennial future · galactic civilization · distant future · post-Earth civilization

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The Hyperion Omnibus

Dan Simmons · 2004 · Hyperion Cantos

Seven pilgrims travel to a planet of time-twisting tombs and a terrifying creature as galaxy-scale war closes in.

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Premise labels: pilgrimage · galactic war · mysterious creature · time anomaly · interstellar conflict · far future · humanity at risk · mystery quest

Setting labels: far future · interstellar civilization · galactic empire · colonized planets · spacefaring society · time anomaly · future humanity · mysterious planet

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The World of Null-A

A.E. van Vogt · 2002 · Null-A

An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.

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Premise labels: identity mystery · false memories · interstellar conspiracy · utopian social order · philosophical society · superhuman potential · games-based advancement · lawless competition · galactic war · planetary migration

Setting labels: far future · Earth · Venus · interplanetary society · galactic community · utopia · post-war future · spacefaring civilization · lawless month

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The Thousand Earths

Stephen Baxter · 2022

A deep-time SF epic intercuts a star-faring journey through future humanity with a world racing toward collapse.

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Premise labels: deep time · future humanity · cosmic journey · survival story · parallel narratives · end of world · time-dilated travel · ecological collapse · migration pressure

Setting labels: far future · deep future · spacefaring future · dying world · artificial planet · engineered worlds · solar system future · intergalactic travel · cosmological scale · human future

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Cronus

P. Djèlí Clark · 2025 · The Time Traveler's Passport

In a segregated near-future, a Black woman at a time-travel company uncovers a history-warping secret.

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Premise labels: time travel tourism · rewritten history · false memories · segregated future · racial oppression · tech abuse · state control · resistance movement

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · alternate history · dystopian future · United States · segregated society · time travel present

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Ruins

Orson Scott Card · 2012 · Pathfinder

A group of time-shifting teens cross into new wallfolds and race to stop Garden’s destruction while trust frays.

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Premise labels: time travel · world-saving mission · trust issues · parallel societies · hidden history · crossing barriers · adolescent quest

Setting labels: planet Garden · wallfolds · separated colonies · future Earth colony · distant planet · post-colonization future · ruins of a civilization · different times

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The Star Diaries

Stanisław Lem · 1978 · Ijon Tichy

A galactic diarist bumbles through bizarre voyages that turn space adventure into satire, philosophy, and time-loop chaos.

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Premise labels: space voyages · time travel · robot world · interstellar travel · bureaucratic absurdity · social satire · philosophical speculation · undercover investigation

Setting labels: outer space · interplanetary · 23rd century · future Earth · aliens · robots · time travel · cosmic

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The Forever War

Joe Haldeman · 2003 · The Forever War

A drafted soldier fights an interstellar war where near-light travel turns every return home into a leap centuries ahead.

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Premise labels: interstellar war · relativistic time dilation · reluctant conscript · returning veteran · alien conflict · homecoming alienation

Setting labels: future war · interstellar space · Earth future · military training · alien planets · deep space · time-dilated future

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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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