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Premise labels used: hospital conspiracy, medical experimentation, mind-reading technology, nanotechnology, robotics ethics, child patients, psychiatric residency, near-future medicine, experimental treatment, hidden sabotage, human mind

Setting labels used: Manhattan, teaching hospital, psychiatric ward, pediatric inpatient unit, near future, 2035, high-tech hospital, future Earth, medicalized future, robot-inflected reality

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The Hospital at the End of the World

Justin C. Key · 2026

In a near-future AI-run world, a medical student uncovers family secrets and a deadly medical mystery in New Orleans.

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Premise labels: AI takeover · human vs AI medicine · medical school · medical mystery · family secrets · father death mystery · near-future healthcare · institutional control · corporate monopoly · medical conspiracy · mysterious illness · search for truth

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · New Orleans · New York City · AI-controlled society · medical enclave · university hospital · medical school · alternate healthcare system

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K-Pax

Gene Brewer · 1995 · K-Pax

A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.

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Premise labels: alien claim · psychiatric patient · identity mystery · delusion or reality · utopian world · therapeutic inquiry · human-alien encounter · mysterious abilities

Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · New York City · Manhattan · contemporary setting · outer space · alien world · utopian planet · single-site setting

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Hospital

Han Song · 2023 · Hospital

A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.

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Premise labels: mystery illness · hospital system · medical bureaucracy · patient powerlessness · corrupt institution · labyrinthine system · survival quest · escape attempt · medicalized society · systemic critique

Setting labels: dystopian future · hospital setting · medical institution · C City · China · bureaucratic system · speculative future · authoritarian society · medicalized world · labyrinthine interior

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Parasite

Mira Grant · 2013 · Parasitology

In a near-future world cured by implanted tapeworms, an amnesiac woman uncovers a frightening medical conspiracy.

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Premise labels: bioengineered parasite · medical breakthrough gone wrong · body takeover · medical conspiracy · near-future health tech

Setting labels: near future · 2027 · laboratory setting · hospital setting · corporate setting

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Freezing Point

Anders Bodelsen · 1971

A terminally ill editor chooses cryogenic suspension, then wakes into a bleak future where survival has a dangerous price.

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Premise labels: cryogenic suspension · terminal illness · future cure · future wake-up · life extension · immortality dilemma · medical experiment · post-freeze society · body commodification · state control

Setting labels: near future · hospital setting · medical facility · scientific facility · dystopian future · 1970s future · 1990s future · 2020s future · alternative future · surveillance society

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Nexus

Ramez Naam · 2012 · Nexus

A young scientist is coerced into a spy mission after a mind-linking nano-drug becomes a global security threat.

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Premise labels: mind link · brain interface · drug tech · human enhancement · posthuman transition · illegal technology · government crackdown · spy coercion · technological arms race · hive mind · coercion technology · mind control · knowledge transfer

Setting labels: near future · 2040 · mid-21st century · San Francisco · Bangkok · Shanghai · Washington DC · Thailand · international setting · academic setting · biotech world · high tech future · recognizable future · posthuman future · global conspiracy

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The Mechanics of Memory

Audrey Lee · 2024

A woman with a missing year enters a luxury memory clinic, only to find her memories and reality are being rewritten.

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Premise labels: memory manipulation · lost memories · false memories · memory recovery · institutional secrecy · corporate conspiracy · unreliable reality · trust issues · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · high-tech facility · memory clinic · mental institution · wellness center · medical facility · corporate lab · contemporary setting · technologically advanced society

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge · 2006

A rejuvenated poet must relearn a hyperconnected future while a hidden mind-control plot and a library protest unfold.

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Premise labels: near-future tech · augmented reality · medical rejuvenation · alzheimers recovery · mind control conspiracy · library digitization protest · digital surveillance · world domination plot

Setting labels: near future · San Diego · university campus · high school · networked society · digitally layered reality · physically recognizable future

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Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: future city · tech city · dystopian future · near future · high-tech society · AI-integrated world · clinic setting · transhuman future

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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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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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