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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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Cover of I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.

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Premise labels: beauty standards · body transformation · teen dystopia · brainwashing · government control · conformity · social engineering · rebellion

Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · body modification · human enhancement · life extension · bioethics · future humanity · perfectionism · medical intervention

Setting labels: near future · distant future · alternate future · our world · futuristic Earth · global society · undersea setting · asteroid belt

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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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Cover of Fool Night, Vol. 1 by Kasumi Yasuda

Fool Night, Vol. 1

Kasumi Yasuda · 2024 · フールナイト [Fool Night]

In a sunless dystopian Earth, a desperate man enters a plant-transformation program to survive—then uncovers unsettling truths.

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Premise labels: human transformation · oxygen crisis · terminal choice · state stipend · medical sacrifice · survival dilemma

Setting labels: far future · dystopian future · darkened Earth · oxygen-poor world · apocalyptic setting

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Distance: 0.1949

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UnWorld

Jayson Greene · 2025

In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.

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Premise labels: grief aftermath · AI consciousness · uploaded minds · personhood debate · memory and identity · mysterious death · suicide or accident · human-machine blur · AI rights

Setting labels: near future · digital future · technological dystopia · suburban setting · virtual reality · AI-saturated world · slightly off-present

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Cover of Your Utopia by Bora Chung

Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse

Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet

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Distance: 0.1969

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Cover of Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler · 1995

A Hugo-winning short story collection where Octavia Butler explores alien coexistence, illness, language loss, and the costs of survival.

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Premise labels: alien contact · symbiotic coexistence · genetic disease · post-apocalyptic survival · communication breakdown · thought experiment · moral dilemma · duty versus freedom

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · alien planet · human colony · Earth

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Cover of Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

Strange Bedfellows

Ariel Slamet Ries · 2025

In a queer solarpunk future, a burned-out trans college dropout starts manifesting dreams—and a mysteriously returned crush.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dream manifestation · late-blooming powers · lost crush returns · identity crisis · mental health crisis · reality vs fantasy · forbidden attraction · self-discovery · power awakening · futuristic colony

Setting labels: remote alien planet · space colony · terraf ormed world · future society · post-Earth future · utopian future · solar punk future · plant punk · off-world colony · near-future

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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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Cover of Uglies, The Collector's Set by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies, The Collector's Set

Scott Westerfeld · 2009 · Uglies

In a future where turning pretty is mandatory at 16, one girl’s choices expose the cost of beauty control.

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Premise labels: beauty control · coming of age · forced transformation · identity crisis · rebel against system · social control · post-surgery society · truth discovery · beauty standards

Setting labels: futuristic society · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian city · near-future · youth segregation · future society · alternate reality · suburban communities · New Pretty Town · Uglyville

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Distance: 0.2009

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Cover of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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Distance: 0.2010

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