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Premise labels used: cyborg girl, new family, memory loss, adoptive family, identity crisis, outcast heroine, mechanic protagonist, futuristic Cinderella

Setting labels used: New Beijing, Europe, dystopian future, futuristic setting, alternate world, cybernetic society, home life

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Cinder

Marissa Meyer · 2012 · The Lunar Chronicles

A cyborg mechanic in futuristic New Beijing is pulled into plague politics, royal intrigue, and a Cinderella-like fate.

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Premise labels: Cinderella retelling · cyborg heroine · plague crisis · forbidden attraction · royal intrigue · intergalactic struggle · identity mystery · second-class outsider

Setting labels: futuristic world · post-apocalyptic future · New Beijing · Eastern Commonwealth · Earth · Moon · space politics · alternate future China · post-world war · cyberpunk

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Distance: 0.1450

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Inuyashiki, Vol. 1

Hiroya Oku · 2015 · 犬屋敷 [Inuyashiki]

A neglected 58-year-old father is transformed by an alien accident into a cyborg and must decide what to do with his new power.

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Premise labels: elderly protagonist · cyborg transformation · superpowers · alien encounter · unexpected hero · family neglect · terminal illness · vigilante

Setting labels: near future · contemporary Japan · urban setting · domestic setting · everyday life · grounded reality · science fiction reality

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Distance: 0.1887

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Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave

Greg Rucka · 2015 · Lazarus

A conclave of ruling families turns a fragile power balance into open war, while Forever questions her loyalties and origins.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · ruling families · class hierarchy · family power struggle · elite conclave · biotech warrior · loyalty conflict

Setting labels: near-future dystopia · post-government world · feudal future · ocean platform setting · luxury enclave · family domains · global power structure

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Distance: 0.1956

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company

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Distance: 0.1958

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vN

Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · Pacific Northwest · Seattle · human and robot society · mixed organic/synthetic family · futuristic road trip · post-Rapture world · synthetic underclass

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Distance: 0.1968

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Chobits, Vol. 1

Clamp · 2002 · ちょびっツ [Chobits]

A broke student finds a discarded humanoid computer in the trash and becomes entangled in her mystery and their bond.

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Premise labels: found robot · humanoid computer · AI mystery · boy meets robot girl · near-future technology · human-machine relationship · unaffordable tech

Setting labels: near future · Tokyo · urban Japan · tech-saturated society · computer-mediated life · humanlike androids · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1971

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Hard Boiled

Frank Miller · 1993 · Hard Boiled

A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · corporate domination · robot rebellion · identity crisis · dual identity · insurance investigator · tax collector · robot assassin · self-aware robot · subjugated machines · corporate assassin · hidden true self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society

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Distance: 0.2021

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And Shall Machines Surrender

Benjanun Sriduangkaew · 2019 · Machine Mandate

On a Dyson-sphere utopia run by AIs, two estranged women investigate sudden suicides among human-AI hosts.

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Premise labels: AI ruled society · human-AI hybrids · mystery investigation · suicide mystery · second chance romance · political intrigue · exes reunite · cyberpunk utopia · identity crisis · power struggle

Setting labels: Dyson sphere · space city · far future · post-singularity · AI utopia · cyberpunk future · Chinese-inspired setting · queernormative society · interstellar politics · transhuman setting

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Distance: 0.2022

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Skyn

Nikki Payne · 2025

In a class-rigged dystopia, an unmodified woman becomes a cyborg bride and uncovers power, desire, and revolt.

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Premise labels: underground versus surface · body modification hierarchy · skin fetishization · forced marriage · marriage of convenience · revenge deal · elite family intrigue · cyborg-human romance · class mobility · escape plot

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · underground mines · surface elite · cybernetic society · class-stratified world · cyberpunk · industrial underground · upper world · world below and above

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Distance: 0.2023

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Setting labels: future dystopia · overpopulated world · futuristic society · technological society · fake garden · corporate future · earthbound future

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Distance: 0.2034

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He, She and It

Marge Piercy · 1993

In a corporate-dominated future, a Jewish free town trains a cyborg protector while an old golem story echoes their fate.

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Premise labels: cyborg protector · custody loss · free town · corporate control · human-machine bond · parallel legend · golem retelling · AI personhood · community defense

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · corporate enclaves · free town · Jewish community · cyberspace · virtual reality · alternate Prague · historic Prague · ecological collapse · climate-damaged world · domed habitat · radiation-scarred Earth

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Distance: 0.2035

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Fate of Perfection

K.F. Breene · 2017 · Finding Paradise

In a corporate dystopia, a genius mother and her security ally fight to keep their genetically unusual child and win freedom.

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Premise labels: corporate dystopia · genetically engineered society · protective parent · escape from control · breeding program · child rescue · forbidden family bond · reproductive control · superhuman protagonists

Setting labels: distant future · corporate-controlled world · off-world colony · planetary escape · dystopian society · polluted Earth · controlled enclaves

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Distance: 0.2040

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