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Setting labels used: dystopian future, police state, corporate power, authoritarian government, industrial workplace, near future
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A terrified hidden child must infiltrate enemy headquarters to rescue captured friends in a brutal future crackdown.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · government takeover · Population Police headquarters · prison camp · hiding places · surveillance state · urban danger zone
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Distance: 0.0938
Teens race to expose a hidden plan and stop unwinding before a violent uprising and power grab consume the country.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · United States · political dystopia · corporate-controlled society · post-crisis society · militarized state
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Distance: 0.0960
An elderly Peter Parker is pulled back into action in a bleak future New York ruled by an authoritarian regime.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · alternate universe · future New York · police state · urban dystopia
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Distance: 0.0972
In a state-run society, a boy’s mandatory intelligence test reveals a terrifying rule about intelligence.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · government-controlled society · school-like system · bureaucratic world · near-future
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Distance: 0.0990
In a tightly controlled future, a teen girl’s perfect match is disrupted, pushing her toward forbidden feelings and doubt.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic society · high-tech control · sterile world · regulated everyday life · surveillance state
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Distance: 0.1026
A betrayed heroine fights a corrupt corporation, battles trust issues, and risks everything to win back love and freedom.
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Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · corporate regime · underground prison · high-tech surveillance · Australia (source publication) · global scope · futuristic city
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Distance: 0.1028
In a future where every word and gesture costs money, a fifteen-year-old’s silence sparks rebellion.
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Setting labels: futuristic America · dystopian future · highly monitored society · corporate control · legalistic state · advanced surveillance · 3D-printed city · near-future
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Distance: 0.1057
A condensed full-cast Audible drama of a surveillance-state classic, driven by voice acting, music, and dread.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · surveillance society · totalitarian state · controlled society · war-time regime · alternate Britain · postwar future · authoritarian world
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Distance: 0.1059
Ten years after a revolution, two teens on opposite sides of a surveillance-state conflict collide and spark danger.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · authoritarian regime · post-revolution · surveillance state · prison · high-security island · AI-controlled · new republic
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Distance: 0.1071
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression
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Distance: 0.1086
Two between-book novellas and a journal collection revisit the Shatter Me story through Warner and Adam’s eyes.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · controlled society · military base · resistance movement · asylum · post-collapse world
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Distance: 0.1091
A faithful graphic retelling of Orwell’s dystopia, following one man’s forbidden awakening under total surveillance.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · London · Oceania · alternate future · war state · controlled society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1094