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Leigh Dragoon, Marie Lu

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Premise labels used: dystopian future, government secrets, wrongly accused, criminal suspect, resistance to authority, plague crisis, star-crossed rivals, family survival, murder investigation, race against time

Setting labels used: dystopian future, Republic, wealthy district, slums, Lake Sector, war-torn society, plague-stricken world, militarized state

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Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family

Greg Rucka · 2013 · Lazarus

In a resource-starved dystopia ruled by wealthy Families, one family’s near-immortal enforcer begins questioning her role.

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Premise labels: dystopian near-future · family power struggle · elite ruling class · genetically enhanced protector · enforcer for a family · scarce resources · feudal social order · hidden origins · loyalty conflict · protective warrior

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · feudal future · lawless society · resource-scarce world · rival family territories · wasteland

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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.

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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: 0.1803

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Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave

Greg Rucka · 2015 · Lazarus

A conclave of ruling families turns a fragile power balance into open war, while Forever questions her loyalties and origins.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · ruling families · class hierarchy · family power struggle · elite conclave · biotech warrior · loyalty conflict

Setting labels: near-future dystopia · post-government world · feudal future · ocean platform setting · luxury enclave · family domains · global power structure

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Witch and Wizard Book One Free Preview

James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet · 2009

Two siblings are seized by a new regime and discover magical powers that could help them escape and fight back.

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Premise labels: secret powers · imprisoned siblings · totalitarian regime · missing children · resistance movement · save the parents · escape from prison · prophecy · outcast teens · magic in a dystopia

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian society · prison setting · futuristic world · secret prison · post-takeover society · alternate reality

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Hard Boiled

Frank Miller · 1993 · Hard Boiled

A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · corporate domination · robot rebellion · identity crisis · dual identity · insurance investigator · tax collector · robot assassin · self-aware robot · subjugated machines · corporate assassin · hidden true self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society

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Distance: 0.1911

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Legend Trilogy Boxed Set

Marie Lu · 2013 · Legend

In a fractured future America, two teens from opposite sides are drawn into a deadly struggle that could change everything.

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Premise labels: future America · divided nation · rebellion · government corruption · wanted outlaw · military prodigy · plague · war

Setting labels: future America · dystopian future · war-torn society · split nation · government hierarchy · military state · plague-affected world · alternate future

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To Cage a Wild Bird

Brooke Fast · 2026 · Divided Fates

A bounty hunter enters a deadly prison to rescue her brother, only to clash with a guard and a brutal system.

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Premise labels: dystopian prison · prison break · forbidden romance · bounty hunter protagonist · rescue mission · hunted for sport · corrupt system · survival story · found family

Setting labels: dystopian future · prison setting · city-state · post-civil war world · class-stratified society · maximum-security prison · war-torn world · carceral setting

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Hulk: The End

Peter David · 2008 · The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect

Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · time travel · alternate timeline · last survivor · tyrant ruler · internal conflict · final battle · post-nuclear war

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust

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Les Furtifs

Alain Damasio · 2019

In a near-future France of privatized cities and surveillance, grieving parents search for a missing child amid a hunt for elusive beings.

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Premise labels: near-future dystopia · missing child · species hunt · anti-surveillance · private-city society · civil resistance

Setting labels: near future · France · 2040 · urban dystopia · privatized cities · surveillance state · high-tech society · capitalist future · autonomous communes · anti-government zones

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Legend

Marie Lu · 2016 · Legend

A military prodigy and a wanted slum criminal are forced into a deadly pursuit that exposes their nation’s darkest secrets.

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Premise labels: rebel government · wanted criminal · prodigy investigator · cat and mouse · enemies to lovers · missing truth · plague crisis · war-torn nation · class divide

Setting labels: dystopian future · future America · western United States · Los Angeles · military state · wartime setting · slums and elite districts · quarantined plague zones · alternate reality

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Die Verschworenen

Ursula Poznanski · 2013 · Die Verratenen

A hidden-clan survivor hunts the truth behind a conspiracy while shifting loyalties and dangerous secrets reshape everything.

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Premise labels: dystopian survival · hidden refuge · conspiracy investigation · forbidden return · secret documents · truth seeking

Setting labels: underground refuge · city beneath a city · surface world · spheres · clans · dystopian future

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki · 2021

Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic society · gender politics · population control · screen addiction · alienation · technological mediation · interplanetary politics · human drift · social collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future

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Distance: 0.2049

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