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Premise labels used: body transplant, brain transplant, identity crisis, body dysphoria, experimental surgery, future medicine, medical speculation, ethical dilemma, self-transformation, question of self

Setting labels used: dystopian future, near future, Mars, part-terraformed Mars, advanced technology, riot-plagued society, scientific future, speculative future

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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: 0.1247

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Electric Forest

Tanith Lee · 1979

In a genetically perfect future, an ostracized woman accepts a new body from a mysterious benefactor with hidden motives.

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Premise labels: body transfer · beauty standards · identity crisis · social ostracism · scientific manipulation · espionage thriller · consciousness transfer · dystopian society · altered self

Setting labels: far future · alien planet · colonized world · genetically engineered society · class-stratified society · high-tech future · speculative future · corporate world · planetary setting

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Distance: 0.1588

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · overpopulated world · wildlife extinction · chimp reserve · hospital · school · urban civilization · conservation setting

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Distance: 0.1677

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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: 0.1685

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Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1729

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Feed

M.T. Anderson · 2004

A teen’s moon vacation turns into a close-up look at a brain-implanted media system, a collapsing world, and a fragile romance.

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Premise labels: brain implant · controlled media · consumer culture · teen dystopia · targeted advertising · social manipulation · internet dependency · identity crisis

Setting labels: future · moon · domed city · planetary travel · corporate society · environmental collapse · brain-networked world · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1804

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Distance: 0.1835

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Premise labels: clone identity · human cloning · organ donor · coming of age · human rights · dehumanization · escape

Setting labels: future · dystopian future · borderland · Mexico-influenced · drug empire · estate setting · desert setting · oppressive society

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Distance: 0.1843

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Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters · 2016

A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.

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Premise labels: gender apocalypse · hormone shortage · contagious virus · forced gender choice · trans revenge

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic setting · US setting · civil conflict · trans community

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Distance: 0.1873

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UnWholly

Neal Shusterman · 2012 · Unwind Dystology

In a dystopian future where teens are harvested for parts, survivors face new threats and a manufactured boy questions who he is.

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Premise labels: body harvesting · teen survival · identity crisis · futuristic bioethics · rebellion · black market

Setting labels: futuristic society · dystopian near-future · biotechnological reality · institutional control · black market economy

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Distance: 0.1883

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Off Target

Eve Smith · 2022

A desperate would-be mother makes a dangerous genetic choice, then faces the fallout of a near-future bioethics crisis.

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Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · infertility · pregnancy secret · moral dilemma · medical ethics · unintended consequences · cover-up · reproductive technology · perfect child

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · global · UK · medical future · dystopian future · scientific future · worldwide crisis

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Mindswap

Robert Sheckley · 1966

A cash-strapped young man takes a cheap mind-swap vacation and gets trapped in a wildly chaotic body-hopping chase.

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Premise labels: mind transfer · body swap · alien travel · vacation gone wrong · body theft · interstellar black market · ordinary person in crisis · identity displacement · travel by proxy

Setting labels: future · interstellar · alien worlds · Mars · Earth · galaxy · space travel economy · science fictional reality

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Distance: 0.1921

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