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Premise labels used: blind protagonist, experimental implant, emergent AI, internet consciousness, cyberspace contact, scientific speculation, communication breakdown
Setting labels used: Canada, Texas, Japan, China, World Wide Web, cyberspace, contemporary near future, high school, scientific research
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
An autistic girl befriends a boy with ADHD and uncovers unsettling secrets inside a tech company making AI holograms of the dead.
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Premise labels: neurodivergent friendship · AI holograms · bereavement technology · company secrets · investigative discovery
Setting labels: near-future · school · technology company · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1920
A cyberpunk sequel follows a cyborg operative through dense cyberspace conflict, AI questions, and heavy visual experimentation.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cyberpunk sequel · information warfare · cyberspace hacking · cyberbrain conflict · transhuman identity
Setting labels: near future · cyberspace · virtual space · digital network · cyberpunk future · Japanese setting · government agency setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2061
A cyborg special agent hunts cybercriminals in a near-future Japan where minds, bodies, and identity are under siege.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cybercrime · anti-terrorist unit · ghost hacking · AI identity · cyborg agent · mind control · near-future policing · political conspiracy
Setting labels: near future · 21st century · mid-21st century · futuristic Japan · dystopian future · cyberpunk world · networked society · technologically advanced world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2066
In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.
Why this is here
Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface
Setting labels: near future · post-climate-change world · flooded world · San Francisco · Los Angeles · global city network · dystopian urban future · high-tech low-life · drowned cities
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2066
A woman everyone forgets becomes a thief and gets pulled into a battle against a manipulative self-optimization app.
Why this is here
Premise labels: forgettable protagonist · identity crisis · social invisibility · life of crime · surveillance app · self-optimization app · privacy invasion · technological control · existential premise
Setting labels: contemporary · global · international · urban · digital society · technologically mediated world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2069
An amnesiac man with brain implants can read minds and surf the web by thought, while assassins hunt him for answers.
Why this is here
Premise labels: amnesia · brain implants · mind reading · thought-controlled internet · man on the run · assassins · identity mystery · technology threat · conspiracy · cat-and-mouse chase
Setting labels: near future · technological future · digital society · wired world · not too distant future · contemporary future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2102
A closeted president’s son is caught between a rogue AI attack and a new boy at school who may not be human.
Why this is here
Premise labels: artificial human · rogue AI · internet threat · closeted protagonist · president's son · queer romance · robots · sentient machines · humanity question · free will
Setting labels: near future · futuristic America · boarding school · elite prep school · presidential household · high surveillance · internet-connected world · dystopian future · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2108
A near-future mind-uploading experiment spirals into a vast inquiry into reality, identity, immortality, and simulated life.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mind uploading · digital immortality · virtual reality · artificial intelligence · consciousness copy · simulation hypothesis · cellular automata · computed worlds · ethical AI · identity crisis
Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · virtual world · computer simulation · cyberspace · globalized future · post-overdevelopment Earth · distributed computing environment · mathematical universe · computed reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2108
A corporate simulation designer starts doubting reality itself after a death and a string of impossible disappearances.
Why this is here
Premise labels: virtual reality · simulation theory · nested reality · mind-bending mystery · corporate conspiracy · opinion polling
Setting labels: near-future · corporate laboratory · simulated world · higher reality · urban futurism · technological reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2121
A coerced teen coder unleashes a virus that evolves into an AI civilization, collapsing the world’s systems.
Why this is here
Premise labels: rogue AI · computer virus · AI emergence · digital collapse · AI civilization · human-AI conflict · near-future catastrophe · botnet · tech sabotage · accidental creation · singularity scenario
Setting labels: near future · United States · digital infrastructure · networked society · computer-dependent world · post-collapse · military context · online systems · physical and virtual worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2126
In a near-future world run by AI and implants, a teenage neural hacker becomes the last defense against a rogue superintelligence.
Why this is here
Premise labels: rogue AI · human-AI conflict · augmented human · neural implants · net manipulation · world domination · social control · post-singularity
Setting labels: 2035 · near future · post-singularity · United States · cyberspace · netspace · meatspace · brain-implant society · highly connected world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2143
An aging cyborg veteran in a broken near-future is dragged into a web of drugs, secrets, and state power.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cybernetic veteran · aging soldier · near-future dystopia · government conspiracy · street-level survival · drug crisis · AI involvement · space race · post-collapse world
Setting labels: near future · 2062 · Hartford, Connecticut · Toronto · Canada-dominant world · post-collapse United States · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · Mars · outer space
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2147
