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Premise labels used: murder investigation, off-world investigation, fish out of water, culture clash, locked-room mystery, robot partner, social taboo, surveillance society

Setting labels used: future Earth, underground cities, off-world colony, isolated society, spacefaring future, futuristic society, planetary civilization, outer worlds

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The Robots of Dawn

Isaac Asimov · 1994 · Robot

An Earth detective and his robot partner investigate a robot killing on Aurora, where politics and humanity's future hang on the answer.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · roboticide · off-world case · political intrigue · future history · human-robot partnership · civilization stakes · colonization stakes

Setting labels: far future · space colony · off-world society · planetary culture · overcrowded Earth · underground cities · Spacer worlds · Aurora · human-robot society · future history

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Distance: 0.1395

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The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov · 1997 · Robot, chronological order

A skeptical Earth detective is forced to solve a murder with a humanoid robot partner in a crowded, far-future city.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · robot partner · future Earth · overpopulated society · human-robot tension · space colony conflict · police procedural · forced partnership

Setting labels: future Earth · New York City · megacity · domed city · underground city · space colonies · Outer Worlds · far future · dystopian future · fictional future history

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Distance: 0.1589

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Freehold

Michael Z. Williamson · 2004 · Freehold

A framed UN officer flees to a libertarian colony, where culture shock gives way to military training and war.

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Premise labels: fugitive · political asylum · culture clash · utopian society · libertarian society · military buildup · interplanetary conflict · fish out of water

Setting labels: future Earth · planetary colony · interplanetary society · high-gravity world · spacefaring future · dystopian Earth · utopian colony · war-torn future

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Distance: 0.1601

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Ethan of Athos

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1986 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

A sheltered doctor from an all-male world leaves home to solve a reproductive crisis and gets pulled into station intrigue.

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Premise labels: male-only society · fish out of water · reproductive crisis · offworld mission · missing shipment · culture shock · espionage

Setting labels: space station · interstellar society · all-male planet · isolated colony · advanced biotechnology · future society · religious colony · closed society

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Distance: 0.1716

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The Prefect

Alastair Reynolds · 2007 · Prefect Dreyfus Emergency

A space cop investigates a habitat massacre and uncovers a threat to an entire orbital democracy.

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Premise labels: space detective · murder investigation · systemwide conspiracy · utopian society · policing democracy · mass-casualty crime · futuristic whodunnit

Setting labels: far future · space habitats · orbital habitats · utopian society · threatened utopia · demarchist society · political anarchy · virtual reality · machine intelligence · pre-plague era · interstellar future

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Distance: 0.1836

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Infinity Beach

Jack McDevitt · 2000

A future investigator hunts her missing clone-sister and uncovers a buried first-contact secret among the stars.

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Premise labels: first contact · missing person · cover-up · investigation · alien intelligence · search for truth · lost expedition · clone mystery

Setting labels: far future · colonized worlds · interstellar society · spacefaring civilization · terraforming · colony planet · human expansion · stagnant future · distant future · off-world

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Distance: 0.1837

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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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Distance: 0.1856

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester · 1999

In a telepathic future where murder is nearly impossible, a ruthless tycoon tries the perfect crime and a psychic cop closes in.

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Premise labels: telepathic society · murder investigation · perfect crime · psychic police · corporate rivalry · mind reading · inverted detective story

Setting labels: 24th century · future Earth · solar system · spacefaring society · telepathic surveillance · utopian future · dystopian future · futuristic city · interplanetary society

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Distance: 0.1867

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The Last Human

Lee Bacon · 2019 · The Last Human

A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · last human · forbidden human · quest · road trip · unlikely allies · questioning propaganda · cross-species friendship · hidden survivors · planetary recovery

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future

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Distance: 0.1944

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Isaac Steele and the Forever Man

Daniel Rigby · 2021 · Isaac Steele

A foul-mouthed space detective with a robot partner breaks orders to chase a forbidden case across a bizarre universe.

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Premise labels: forbidden investigation · murder mystery · maverick detective · bureaucratic case · spacefaring investigation · alien encounter · robot partner · flawed antihero · hidden past · cross-species romance

Setting labels: far future · near-future · dystopian · post-apocalyptic · spacefaring · alternate Earth · bizarre universe · authoritarian government · colonial center · bureaucratic future · science-fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1946

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PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Vol.1

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2007 · Pluto [プルートウ]

In a future where robots live beside humans, a detective robot investigates murders targeting the world’s greatest robots.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1981

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Lost Planet Homicide

Larry Correia · 2021 · Lost Planet Homicide

On a brutal colony world, an honest homicide cop investigates a bizarre murder that may expose a buried conspiracy.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · space colony · corrupt system · hard-boiled cop · off-world police procedural · crime-ridden society · lost colony

Setting labels: far future · outer space · colony world · hostile planet · toxic atmosphere · acid clouds · mountain city · corporate rule · criminal underworld · dystopian society · off-world

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Distance: 0.1984

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