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Premise labels used: android tutor, forbidden love, coming of age, robot rights, artificial intelligence, human-machine relationship, isolated childhood, first love, identity crisis

Setting labels used: near future, post-apocalyptic, post-disaster, dystopian future, alternate future, climate-changed world, small-town America, isolated house, moon base, robots in daily life

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The Silver Metal Lover

Tanith Lee · 1999 · Silver Metal Lover

A sheltered teen in a post-disaster future falls for a lifelike robot musician and flees her privileged life.

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Premise labels: robot lover · first love · forbidden love · human-robot relationship · coming of age · identity quest · runaway romance · class divide · perfect lover · artificial intelligence

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · decaying slums · privileged elite · class stratification · floating mansions · futuristic city · polluted landscape · alternate future · technologically advanced future

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Distance: 0.1426

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Made in Korea

Jeremy Holt · 2022 · Made in Korea

An adopted AI child in a near-future world confronts identity, family, and control as her strange origins unravel.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · android child · adoptive family · identity crisis · gender identity · coming of age · sentient AI · manufactured child · self-discovery · family system

Setting labels: near-future · future Korea · United States · South Korea · Texas · dystopian-leaning future · high school · corporate-controlled world · post-birth decline · science-fiction reality

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Distance: 0.1517

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

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Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

Setting labels: near future · not-so-distant future · futuristic society · cyborg-like tech · corporate age

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Distance: 0.1584

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Cover of Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time by Brian W. Aldiss

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: 0.1588

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

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Premise labels: artificial friend · robot companion · near future · genetic enhancement · lonely child · humanity question · what is love · what makes a person · class inequality · distant narrator

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · domestic setting · storefront · wealthy household · home schooling · unequal society

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Distance: 0.1594

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Cover of Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Luna

Alex + Ada, Vol. 1

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2014 · Alex + Ada

A lonely man receives a companion android and soon risks everything to help her become truly self-aware.

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Premise labels: android companion · sentient AI · awakening · robot rights · human-AI relationship · post-breakup loneliness · illegal AI activation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · domestic setting · digitally connected world · robot-integrated daily life · post-AI crackdown · virtual reality · smart home · head implants

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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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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: 0.1736

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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: 0.1739

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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: 0.1747

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Cover of The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov

The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Setting labels: future Earth · twenty-first century · far future · robotic society · outer space · Moon · colonies · near-future extrapolation · technological future

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Distance: 0.1752

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Cover of Robot Uprisings by Daniel H. Wilson

Robot Uprisings

Daniel H. Wilson · 2014

A themed anthology of short fiction imagining robot uprisings, AI rebellion, and the human cost of future tech gone wrong.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · AI rebellion · technological revolt · machine takeover · robot apocalypse · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · post-robot rebellion · technological future · household technology · AI-mediated world · dystopian future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1756

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