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Marc Elsberg, Marcus Rafelsberger

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Premise labels used: data surveillance, privacy invasion, social media manipulation, digital control, whistleblower hunt, activist resistance, big data, self-tracking, predictive analytics, reputation scoring

Setting labels used: London, Vienna, New York, contemporary, near future, digital world, urban surveillance, globally networked society

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Version Zero

David Yoon · 2021

A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.

Why this is here

Premise labels: big tech · data privacy · surveillance capitalism · internet shutdown · hacktivism · vigilante justice · corporate whistleblowing · revenge plot · tech satire · digital resistance

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · simulated current world · Silicon Valley · internet culture · social media world · tech industry · virtual world · online society

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Bandwidth

Eliot Peper · 2018 · Analog

A lobbyist in a near-future feed-driven world is pulled into a covert struggle over privacy, power, and climate fate.

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Premise labels: near-future · digital privacy · feed manipulation · political lobbying · corporate espionage · climate crisis · shadow war · social engineering · media control · free will

Setting labels: near future · digital society · networked reality · political corridors · global scope · climate-affected world

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Distance: 0.1925

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Terms of Use

Scott Allan Morrison · 2016

After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · corporate conspiracy · on the run · wrongly accused · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · election interference · hunted protagonist · cover-up · data exploitation

Setting labels: Silicon Valley · contemporary setting · near-future setting · social media world · digital society · international intrigue · China expansion · internet culture · corporate setting

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Distance: 0.1929

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The Sudden Appearance of Hope

Claire North · 2016

A woman everyone forgets becomes a thief and gets pulled into a battle against a manipulative self-optimization app.

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Premise labels: forgettable protagonist · identity crisis · social invisibility · life of crime · surveillance app · self-optimization app · privacy invasion · technological control · existential premise

Setting labels: contemporary · global · international · urban · digital society · technologically mediated world

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Distance: 0.1954

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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.

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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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Little Eyes

Samanta Schweblin · 2020

A global craze for camera-eyed toy pets links strangers in invasive, unsettling ways, exposing loneliness and hidden impulses.

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Premise labels: technology invasion · voyeurism · surveillance tech · anonymous connection · remote control · digital intimacy · global tech craze

Setting labels: near future · global setting · homes · international locations · digital reality · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.2067

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The City Inside

Samit Basu · 2022

In near-future Delhi, a reality controller and an estranged heir get pulled into conspiracies amid surveillance and influencer culture.

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Premise labels: near-future society · surveillance state · social media empire · influencer culture · conspiracy · resistance · corporate control · class inequality

Setting labels: near-future Delhi · near-future India · urban dystopia · high-surveillance society · digital reality · post-crisis future · cyberpunk city

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Distance: 0.2074

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Digital Fortress

Dan Brown · 2004

An NSA cryptographer races to stop a devastating code from exposing secrets and crippling U.S. intelligence.

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Premise labels: NSA · codebreaking · cybersecurity · cryptography · data secrecy · government conspiracy · blackmail · whistleblower · digital threat · surveillance state

Setting labels: NSA facility · Spain · Seville · Tokyo · global chase · contemporary · digital age · government secrecy · international

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The Traveler

John Twelve Hawks · 2006 · Fourth Realm

A young Harlequin must protect gifted fugitives while a shadow network uses surveillance to hunt anyone who threatens control.

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Premise labels: parallel worlds · surveillance state · secret society · off the grid · special powers · protective order · hidden war · freedom vs control · chosen protectors · hunted gifted people

Setting labels: near future · modern day · parallel reality · global · London · Los Angeles · Prague · Arizona · New York · urban surveillance

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Attack Surface

Cory Doctorow · 2020 · Little Brother

A gifted hacker for surveillance firms must choose between lucrative complicity and helping the dissidents her tech targets.

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Premise labels: surveillance state · cybersecurity · hacktivism · double agent · redemption arc · moral compromise · ethical hacking · state repression · political activism · near-future control

Setting labels: near future · alternate world · surveillance society · post-Soviet state · United States · San Francisco Bay Area · Iraq · authoritarian regime · police state · cyberwar

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Homeland

Cory Doctorow · 2013 · Little Brother

A young hacker must leak a trove of explosive secrets without exposing himself or ruining a political campaign.

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Premise labels: hacktivism · digital privacy · leaked documents · government corruption · corporate corruption · whistleblowing · activism · civil liberties · surveillance state · political campaign · anonymity · information release

Setting labels: near-future · San Francisco · California · Burning Man · recession-era · post-terror-attack society · surveillance-heavy society

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Going Zero

Anthony McCarten · 2023

A Boston librarian enters a high-stakes surveillance test and must disappear for 30 days while tech and government hunt her.

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Premise labels: surveillance contest · off-grid challenge · cat and mouse · race against time · big tech vs government · privacy vs security · hunted competition · prize incentive · beta test

Setting labels: United States · Boston · Silicon Valley · near future · present day · surveillance state · digital world · government security · high-tech reality

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Distance: 0.2164

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