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Premise labels used: insomnia epidemic, sleep donation, sleep transfusion, sleep harvesting, black market remedies, public health crisis, moral dilemma, commodified care, dream contagion

Setting labels used: near future, United States, major US cities, night worlds, dystopian future, sleep-deprived world, pandemic society, black market underworld

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Child Zero

Chris Holm · 2022

In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.

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Premise labels: antibiotic resistance · bioterrorism · pandemic collapse · medical crisis · missing child · quarantine zone · manhunt · government overreach · scientific plausibility · public health crisis

Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape

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Distance: 0.1897

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Anyone

Charles Soule · 2019

A scientist’s failed Alzheimer’s experiment creates body-swapping tech that reshapes society and exposes its dark uses.

Why this is here

Premise labels: consciousness transfer · body swapping · future tech · black market tech · Alzheimer's research · identity crisis · technology gone awry · corporate control · legal gray market · world-changing invention

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · realistic future · Ann Arbor · Michigan · global · urban future · black market underworld · corporate future · regulated technology

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Distance: 0.1931

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Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters · 2016

A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.

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Premise labels: gender apocalypse · hormone shortage · contagious virus · forced gender choice · trans revenge

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic setting · US setting · civil conflict · trans community

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Distance: 0.1978

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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Distance: 0.2070

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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.

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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: 0.2079

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · disability technology · mind-body split · robot bodies · virtual society · murder investigation · federal investigation · identity crisis · post-plague society

Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting

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Distance: 0.2080

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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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Distance: 0.2083

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Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · global pandemic · medical crisis · post-pandemic society · disabled future · technology response · public policy · civil rights · social change · worldbuilding prelude

Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future

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Distance: 0.2089

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The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2003

A man whose dreams rewrite reality is used by an ambitious psychiatrist to try remaking the world.

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Premise labels: dream powers · reality alteration · uncontrolled power · therapist manipulation · power and responsibility · utopian redesign · playing God · moral dilemma · dream therapy · world-changing dreams

Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · Portland, Oregon · environmental collapse · climate change · alternate realities · near future · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.2137

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

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Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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Distance: 0.2160

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The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2011

An anti-aging cure leaves one family crammed together for generations, where inheritance, privacy, and patience collapse.

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Premise labels: anti-aging drug · immortality · overpopulation · resource scarcity · family crowding · inheritance conflict · household power

Setting labels: near future · far future · futuristic America · crowded apartment · urban overcrowding · limited privacy · post-aging society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.2164

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We Hear Voices

Evie Green · 2020

In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.

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Premise labels: mysterious pandemic · imaginary friend · children hearing voices · violent influence · family under strain · post-illness aftermath · secret research facility · space program · dystopian collapse · near-future crisis

Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living

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Distance: 0.2171

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