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Premise labels used: memory wipe, identity search, on the run, government resistance, biological family search, oppressive regime

Setting labels used: dystopian future, remote mountain town, school setting, boarding house, controlled society, wilderness

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Fractured

Teri Terry · 2013 · Slated

An amnesiac teen’s returning memories expose hidden loyalties, dangerous secrets, and a trap set by those she trusts.

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Premise labels: erased memories · identity mystery · state control · hidden past · trust nobody · brainwashing · rebellion · double life · secret history · manipulated teen

Setting labels: dystopian future · England · school setting · underground resistance · state surveillance · controlled society · near future

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Distance: 0.1746

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Pretties

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A newly prettified teen must fight brainwashing, social pressure, and her own fading memory to uncover the truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: beauty control · memory tampering · brainwashing · forced conformity · choice versus control · return to self · reversal quest · authorities in pursuit

Setting labels: future society · controlled city · pretty town · wilderness · reservation · post-apocalyptic future · techno society · societal stratification

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Distance: 0.1878

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The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner · 1995 · Club of Rome Quartet

A gifted fugitive uses identity hacks to evade a surveillance state built on data, control, and accelerating change.

Why this is here

Premise labels: identity hacking · state surveillance · information control · fugitive on the run · social systems

Setting labels: near future · dystopian America · networked society · surveillance state · alternate future · post-quake society · information age · computerized world

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Distance: 0.1888

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E

Kate Wrath · 2014 · E

An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · erasure · survival struggle · slavery threat · dystopian order · found family · imminent war

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier

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Distance: 0.1916

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Among the Impostors

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2002 · Shadow Children

A secret third child must survive boarding school undercover while hiding his identity from classmates, teachers, and the state.

Why this is here

Premise labels: false identity · illegal child · undercover student · population control · secret survival · hiding in plain sight · school infiltration · authoritarian regime

Setting labels: boarding school · windowless school · woods · totalitarian society · dystopian future · school grounds

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Distance: 0.1926

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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.

Why this is here

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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Distance: 0.1948

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The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Shallee McArthur · 2014

A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory theft · stored memories · genetically enhanced humans · social divide · thief hunt · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · future society · city setting · closed community · urban dystopia · futuristic technology · science fiction world · class divide

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Distance: 0.1962

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Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · boarding school · friendship · war setting · school conspiracy · hidden agenda · identity concealment · forced isolation

Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · war-torn society · boarding school · isolated school · wilderness setting · schoolcamp

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Distance: 0.1978

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Slated

Teri Terry · 2012 · Slated

A memory-wiped teen must survive a controlled new life while eerie flashes of her past suggest the government is lying.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory wipe · second chance · government control · criminal rehabilitation · identity loss · forced reintegration · surveillance state · mind control

Setting labels: near future · dystopian England · closed UK · future London · futuristic UK · surveillance state · school setting · hospital setting

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Distance: 0.1979

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Among the Betrayed

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2002 · Shadow Children

A captured illegal third child must choose between saving herself and betraying three imprisoned children to live.

Why this is here

Premise labels: illegal child · population control · betrayal dilemma · survival choice · imprisonment · identity concealment · false identity · trust test · moral dilemma · resistance movement

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · authoritarian government · prison cell · boarding school · forest hideout · boys' school · girls' school · famine-stricken world

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Distance: 0.1986

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The Meadows

Stephanie Oakes · 2023

A queer teen enters a prestigious school that hides a conversion regime, then must outwit its control years later.

Why this is here

Premise labels: conversion camp · forced conformity · queer repression · state control · identity suppression · coming of age

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-climate disaster · post-apocalyptic · futuristic · authoritarian society · school setting · finishing school · coastal town · city · isolated facility

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Distance: 0.1994

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Youngbloods

Scott Westerfeld · 2022 · Impostors

A former shadow and an ex-rebel turn against a new power grab in a chaotic, high-stakes future full of old ghosts.

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Premise labels: rebel alliance · power struggle · identity crisis · secret prison · AI conflict · family betrayal · revolution fallout

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · AI city · rebel hideout · secret prisons · rebuilt cities · wilderness

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Distance: 0.2001

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