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Premise labels used: enhanced intelligence, IQ enhancement, humanity-saving technology, scientific breakthrough, hidden organization, on-the-run

Setting labels used: near-future, futuristic, on the run, global stakes, Earth, off the grid, secret facility

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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.

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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: 0.1863

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Wired

Douglas E. Richards · 2012 · Wired

A scientist’s brain-boosting breakthrough pulls a retired operative into a high-stakes chase of lies, power, and trust.

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Premise labels: enhanced intelligence · human augmentation · bioterror plot · cat and mouse chase · conspiracy thriller · save the world · secret mission · scientific breakthrough

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · government and military · special forces · research lab · high-tech world · global stakes

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Distance: 0.1865

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Accelerando

Charles Stross · 2005

Three generations of one family navigate an accelerating posthuman future as AI, nanotech, and the Singularity reshape humanity.

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Premise labels: technological singularity · posthuman future · AI takeover · mind uploading · solar system scale · family saga · venture altruism · post-scarcity economy · humanity under pressure · alien contact · distributed intelligence · runaway innovation

Setting labels: near future · post-singularity · solar system · outer system · Saturn · Jupiter moon · Earth · virtual worlds · cyberspace · posthuman civilization · spacefaring future · ultra-capitalist future

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Distance: 0.1975

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Distance: 0.2018

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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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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · body modification · human enhancement · life extension · bioethics · future humanity · perfectionism · medical intervention

Setting labels: near future · distant future · alternate future · our world · futuristic Earth · global society · undersea setting · asteroid belt

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Distance: 0.2032

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Infinity Born

Douglas E. Richards · 2017

A near-future spy thriller about a sabotaged AI project, a hunted operative, and the race to control superintelligence.

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Premise labels: artificial superintelligence · AI sabotage · technology race · future of humanity · scientist turned target · spy mission

Setting labels: near future · United States · global tech race · space-based tech · military research · virtual reality

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Distance: 0.2071

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse

Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet

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Distance: 0.2100

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Robot Dreams

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Robot

A mixed collection of Asimov short SF stories exploring robots, supercomputers, and humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: future tech · robot consciousness · AI ethics · scientific puzzle · philosophical SF · computer intelligence

Setting labels: future science · spacefaring future · technological future · far future

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Distance: 0.2123

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Assignment in Eternity

Robert A. Heinlein · 2000 · Assignment in Eternity

Four early Heinlein stories explore superhuman potential, psychic powers, time travel, and the question of what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: superhuman potential · human evolution · ESP · time travel · parallel universes · genetically engineered beings · human rights

Setting labels: future Earth · near future · 1940s pulp era · space travel · moon setting · alternate timelines · parallel worlds · laboratory setting · courtroom setting

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Simulacron 3

Daniel F. Galouye · 1999

A corporate simulation designer starts doubting reality itself after a death and a string of impossible disappearances.

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Premise labels: virtual reality · simulation theory · nested reality · mind-bending mystery · corporate conspiracy · opinion polling

Setting labels: near-future · corporate laboratory · simulated world · higher reality · urban futurism · technological reality

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Distance: 0.2155

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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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Distance: 0.2164

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