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Premise labels used: viral apocalypse, scientific mystery, simulation theory, cure quest, world-ending infection, artificial life, origin mystery, existential crisis

Setting labels used: virtual reality, computer simulation, desert setting, New Mexico, real world, futuristic science lab, apocalyptic world, contemporary

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This Vicious Cure

Emily Suvada · 2020 · This Mortal Coil

A hacked-and-haunted hero races through a virus-ravaged future to stop a new power struggle over life, death, and control.

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Premise labels: gene hacking · virus outbreak · cure race · prevent death · global stakes · corporate control · humanity at risk · identity loss · memory loss

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · surface world · bunkers · virtual reality · simulation · lab setting · world ravaged by virus · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1678

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Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

Blake Crouch · 2019

Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future scenarios · technological change · catastrophic future · post-apocalyptic future · AI · quantum computing · genetic engineering · fertility technology · memory loss · human consciousness

Setting labels: near future · future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · space evacuation · virtual world · casino setting · isolated room

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Distance: 0.1947

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Sea of Silver Light

Tad Williams · 2001 · Otherland

In a vast virtual-reality network, scattered allies race to uncover its secrets, survive it, and stop its deadly design.

Why this is here

Premise labels: virtual reality · immortality · comatose children · conspiracy · network mystery · quest · survival · high-stakes exploration · dangerous price · mystery of the system

Setting labels: virtual reality world · near future · online world · parallel world · simulation worlds · real world · networked society · dystopian future · cyberspace · otherworldly landscapes

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Distance: 0.1975

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Victim Zero

Joshua Guess · 2013 · The Fall

A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.

Why this is here

Premise labels: bioengineered outbreak · scientist protagonist · accidental apocalypse · cure quest · virus mutation · airborne infection · post-apocalyptic survival · moral dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States

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Distance: 0.1998

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The End of the World

Don Hertzfeldt · 2019

A surreal stick-figure apocalypse unfolds in fragmentary, darkly funny Post-it note scenes that mix dread, absurdity, and pathos.

Why this is here

Premise labels: apocalypse · end of the world · survival · surreal aftermath · absurdist apocalypse · existential crisis

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · end times · apocalyptic aftermath · uncertain reality · dreamlike world · surreal world

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Distance: 0.1999

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Genome

A.G. Riddle · 2017 · The Extinction Files

A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: genetic mystery · human evolution · global conspiracy · race against time · hidden code · lost research · apocalyptic survival · virtual reality

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · global · international · post-pandemic world · Arctic · Australia · United States · Berlin · virtual world · alternate reality · human genome

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Distance: 0.2005

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Acts of God

Kanan Gill · 2024

In a borderless future, a genius’s illegal universe simulations are derailed by an unlikely detective and a sentient wall.

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Premise labels: simulation hypothesis · creator and creation · playing god · multiverse · post-apocalyptic society · illegal experiment · private detective · philosophical quest · existential inquiry · cat-and-mouse chase · world simulation · secret research

Setting labels: post-nuclear winter · borderless world · future world · utopian dystopia · simulation world · one-world government · transparency society · futuristic setting · realist-possible future

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Distance: 0.2036

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Cryptos

Ursula Poznanski · 2020 · Cryptos

In a ruined future, a world designer investigates deadly glitches inside the virtual realities everyone depends on.

Why this is here

Premise labels: virtual worlds · world designer · climate disaster · real world collapse · murder mystery · investigation · life in capsules · digital escape · hidden conspiracy · survival · future society

Setting labels: near future · post-climate collapse · virtual reality · dystopian future · capsule life · uninhabitable Earth · computer-simulated worlds · digital worldscape · alternative realities · futuristic society

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Distance: 0.2048

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Feersum Endjinn

Iain M. Banks · 1996

A fugitive with one life left races through a far-future Earth to uncover a killer and stop an approaching planetary doom.

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Premise labels: future Earth · apocalypse · planetary threat · murder mystery · political conspiracy · virtual reality · reincarnation · digital afterlife · fugitive search · save humanity

Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-apocalyptic · megastucture · castle-like fastness · virtual world · cyberspace · cryptosphere · post-singularity · dying earth

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Distance: 0.2052

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

Why this is here

Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality

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Distance: 0.2054

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Permutation City

Greg Egan · 1995

A near-future mind-uploading experiment spirals into a vast inquiry into reality, identity, immortality, and simulated life.

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Premise labels: mind uploading · digital immortality · virtual reality · artificial intelligence · consciousness copy · simulation hypothesis · cellular automata · computed worlds · ethical AI · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · virtual world · computer simulation · cyberspace · globalized future · post-overdevelopment Earth · distributed computing environment · mathematical universe · computed reality

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Distance: 0.2055

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Diaspora

Greg Egan · 2000

A posthuman software mind joins a galaxy-spanning search after a cosmic disaster threatens the future of intelligence.

Why this is here

Premise labels: posthuman future · digital consciousness · human diversification · cosmic catastrophe · interstellar search · alien contact · survival quest

Setting labels: far future · posthuman society · solar system · interstellar space · multiverse · virtual reality · digital civilization · post-Earth

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Distance: 0.2057

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