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Premise labels used: memory wipe, future clues, on the run, corporate secret, time-scooping, predestination, survival puzzle

Setting labels used: dystopian future, police state, corporate power, authoritarian government, industrial workplace, near future

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Kate Wrath · 2014 · E

An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.

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Premise labels: memory loss · erasure · survival struggle · slavery threat · dystopian order · found family · imminent war

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier

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Distance: 0.1677

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The Drafter

Kim Harrison · 2015 · The Peri Reed Chronicles

A memory-fractured government operative races to expose corruption while untangling rewritten timelines and betrayals.

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Premise labels: memory loss · time manipulation · conspiracy · secret agent · corruption · trust issues · on the run · false memories

Setting labels: futuristic Detroit · 2030 · near future · alternative world · post-urban decay · secret government

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Distance: 0.1749

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Neurovance

Alexandra St. Pierre · 2026

In a near-future memory-tech world, a bullied genius gets pulled into a dangerous, obsessive MM romance.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · memory manipulation · tech company · forbidden technology · stalker romance · identity crisis · forced involvement · hidden past · genius MC · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · futuristic world · dystopian future · corporate setting · high-tech setting · AI · self-driving cars · memory tech · techno-reality

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Distance: 0.1754

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The Dividing Sky

Jill Tew · 2024

In a corporate dystopia, a memory seller and a law enforcer are forced together when she loses her memories.

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Premise labels: memory trade · illegal memories · corporate control · class divide · fugitive chase · forced proximity · amnesia romance · enemies to lovers · humanity vs system · resistance awakening

Setting labels: near future · futuristic city · dystopian future · corporate state · privatized society · hypercapitalist world · metro city · wilderness · no-man's-land

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Distance: 0.1804

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薄雾 Mist

微风几许, 微風幾許

A memory-bound recorder joins a time-travel task force and gets pulled into dangerous missions, paradoxes, and slow-burn love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · memory · mystery mission · team assignment · time correction · parallel worlds · chronological puzzle · government task force · space-time anomaly · recorded history

Setting labels: future world · time travel system · parallel universes · space-time missions · government bureau · scientific speculation · post-apocalyptic elements · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1806

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Cały ten czas

Hania Czaban · 2022

A teen in a time-looped future travels to uncover her parents’ fate and the truth behind the endless storm.

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Premise labels: time loop · missing parents · journey to the city · time travel · mystery quest · science-driven mystery

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · time loop world · futuristic city · small-town to city journey · Polish setting

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Distance: 0.1823

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The Legend of the Last Library

Frank L. Cole · 2024

In a paperless dystopia, a girl finds a real book that may lead to the last library on Earth.

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Premise labels: lost library · book quest · paper scarcity · knowledge control · hidden truth · corporate rule · reading power · library rescue

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near-future · dystopian world · paperless society · tree-less world · corporate state · surveilled society · high-tech world

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Distance: 0.1826

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Age of Ultron

Brian Michael Bendis · 2014 · Age of Ultron (Collected Editions)

Ultron conquers the world, and the surviving heroes risk time itself to stop him before history breaks.

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Premise labels: AI takeover · apocalyptic future · last heroes standing · time travel fix · prevent creation · alternate timeline

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · New York City · Manhattan · Savage Land · future timeline · past timeline · alternate reality · multiverse

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Distance: 0.1859

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The Incal, Vol. 1: The Black Incal

Alejandro Jodorowsky · 2014 · L'Incal

A low-level detective stumbles into a cosmic chase over a powerful artifact in a bizarre dystopian future.

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Premise labels: lowly detective · mysterious artifact · chase narrative · MacGuffin hunt · dystopian future · cosmic stakes

Setting labels: futuristic universe · dystopian world · degenerate city · galactic empire · retrofuture · space opera · human-dominated society · underground and upper-level city

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Distance: 0.1867

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The Original

Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal · 2020

A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.

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Premise labels: clone hunt · identity crisis · self versus self · memory loss · murder investigation · government surveillance · immortality cost · replica mission · truth seeking · forced replacement

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society

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Distance: 0.1876

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The Arc

Ben Oliver · 2022 · The Loop Trilogy

In a dystopian future, a rebel group races to stop an AI apocalypse as new allies, betrayals, and sacrifice reshape everything.

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Premise labels: escape mission · prison break · rebellion · anti-AI resistance · apocalypse prevention · humanity at stake · captivity · survival

Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic prison · laboratory · AI-controlled world · post-apocalyptic future · digital world · near-future · oppressive society

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Distance: 0.1910

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The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner · 1995 · Club of Rome Quartet

A gifted fugitive uses identity hacks to evade a surveillance state built on data, control, and accelerating change.

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Premise labels: identity hacking · state surveillance · information control · fugitive on the run · social systems

Setting labels: near future · dystopian America · networked society · surveillance state · alternate future · post-quake society · information age · computerized world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1915

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