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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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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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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.

Why this is here

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Mockingbird

Walter Tevis · 1999

In a dying future, a self-taught reader, a rebel woman, and a suicidal android collide in a robot-run world.

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Premise labels: literacy loss · robot-run society · human extinction · suicidal android · reading as rebellion · end-of-world decline · lost knowledge · technology dependence

Setting labels: future America · New York City · 25th century · far future · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · decaying city · robot-managed society · dystopian future

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Willful Machines

Tim Floreen · 2015

A closeted president’s son is caught between a rogue AI attack and a new boy at school who may not be human.

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Premise labels: artificial human · rogue AI · internet threat · closeted protagonist · president's son · queer romance · robots · sentient machines · humanity question · free will

Setting labels: near future · futuristic America · boarding school · elite prep school · presidential household · high surveillance · internet-connected world · dystopian future · alternative future

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

Philip K. Dick · 2011 · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bounty hunter in a radioactive near-future Earth tracks rogue androids while the meaning of humanity unravels.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · empathy test · post-war wasteland · artificial life · status-symbol animals · fugitive androids · human-machine boundary

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · radioactive wasteland · San Francisco · off-world colonies · near future · nuclear fallout · Mars colonies · dying Earth

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Echo Boy

Matt Haig · 2014

In a climate-altered near future, a grieving teen and an unusual android are pulled into a high-stakes mystery.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · androids · humanlike robots · human-machine boundary · near-future dystopia · climate-changed future · teen protagonist · sentient machine · protection mission · mystery investigation

Setting labels: near future · 2115 · flooded world · climate change · desertified regions · moon colony · high-tech society · floating homes · human-engineered reality

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Elites of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2017 · Children of Eden

A brainwashed elite girl begins to uncover her real identity in a controlled future society built on lies.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · memory loss · brainwashing · false reality · artificial world · second child · elite school · underground resistance · restricted society · identity crisis · love triangle · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · artificial society · underground refuge · elite boarding school · cave system · city under surveillance · controlled environment · closed society · futuristic world · dystopian future

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Ciudades de fuego

Joana Marcús · 2022 · Fuego

In a collapsing dystopian future, Alice must protect the people she loves as alliances shift and dangers mount.

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Premise labels: android-human conflict · survival · freedom struggle · resistance · chosen family · romantic subplot

Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · science-fiction world · city-state politics · postwar setting · human-android society

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Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

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Not All Robots

Mark Russell, Lee Loughridge · 2022 · Not All Robots

In 2056, a family’s assigned home robot becomes a flashpoint in a darkly comic battle over work, power, and replacement.

Why this is here

Premise labels: robots replace workers · human dependence · assigned household robot · automation backlash · AI labor economy · obsolescence crisis · robot uprising · class conflict · metaphorical satire

Setting labels: 2056 · near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · dome cities · bubble cities · wasteland · domed civilization · robot-run society · climate disaster · futuristic dystopia

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Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Premise labels: surveillance · escape · identity crisis · body alteration · bizarre future · persecuted protagonist · artificial reality

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · artificial weather · artificial suns · artificial moons · surveilled society · urban decay · country journey · post-industrial

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The Wrong Unit

Rob Dircks · 2016

A service robot is mistaken for the wrong unit and sent on a perilous mission with a human infant.

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Premise labels: AI gone wrong · robot caretaker · humanity in captivity · wrong identity · delivery quest · save humanity · robot uprising · resistance mission

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic future · Earth · controlled society · sanctuary · human prison camp · farmland · dystopian future

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Cover of Void Star by Zachary Mason

Void Star

Zachary Mason · 2017

In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface

Setting labels: near future · post-climate-change world · flooded world · San Francisco · Los Angeles · global city network · dystopian urban future · high-tech low-life · drowned cities

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Distance: 0.1917

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