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Nnedi Okorafor

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Premise labels used: genetic experimentation, superhuman woman, revolt, revenge, escape from captivity, post-apocalyptic future, oppressed subjects, mythmaking

Setting labels used: near future, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future, future America, New York, tower setting, Africa, transatlantic setting, climate-changed world, flooded cities

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Blake Crouch · 2022

A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · genome hacking · human enhancement · superhuman transformation · upgrade humanity · ethical dilemma · save humanity · genetic modification · family legacy · scientific conspiracy · illegal research · future crisis

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic

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Distance: 0.1486

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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: 0.1533

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · genetically engineered humans · plague aftermath · new civilization · storytelling culture · survival community · human extinction aftermath · eco-collapse · corporate control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · survival commune · ravaged landscape · eco-collapse · north American future

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Distance: 0.1680

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Wither

Lauren DeStefano · 2011 · The Chemical Garden

In a dying future, a kidnapped teen bride plots escape from a gilded prison built on genetic failure.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment fallout · shortened lifespan · kidnapped bride · forced marriage · polygamous household · escape attempt · survival under scarcity

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic America · isolated mansion · gilded cage · collapsed society · surveillance house · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1682

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Collared

Kari Gregg · 2011

In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.

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Premise labels: genetic mutation · biological disaster · dominant-submissive society · protective collaring · claimed lover · power imbalance · forced dependence · rights stripped away

Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression

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Distance: 0.1705

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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: 0.1713

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Nubia: The Awakening

Omar Epps, Clarence A. Haynes · 2022 · Nubia

Three teens from climate-destroyed Nubia uncover inherited powers in a divided future New York and must choose their loyalties.

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Premise labels: climate refugees · awakening powers · hidden heritage · class divide · outcast youth · inheritance of power · coming-of-power

Setting labels: near-future · future New York City · flooded city · sky city · lower Manhattan · post-climate disaster · alternate future · African utopia

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Distance: 0.1720

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Seed to Harvest

Octavia E. Butler · 2007 · Patternist

Four linked Butler novels trace telepathy, mutation, and power struggles across centuries in a bleak, visionary saga.

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Premise labels: telepathic lineage · immortal breeder · human transformation · power struggle · origin story · species change · coerced evolution · distant-future conflict

Setting labels: ancient Africa · colonial America · modern-day Los Angeles · near future · distant future · postapocalyptic · dystopian future · alternate history · speculative future · cosmic invasion

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Distance: 0.1730

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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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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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Premise labels: immortality · cloning · aging crisis · cult involvement · future humanity · human extinction · posthuman life · love and death · youth obsession · social critique

Setting labels: near future · far future · post-apocalyptic world · France · Paris · Spain · Lanzarote · Almeria · dystopian society · cloned society · deserted landscape

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Distance: 0.1743

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The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter · 1992

A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.

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Premise labels: forced transformation · gender reversal · identity crisis · apocalyptic America · body politics · feminist dystopia · sexual politics · journey westward

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1754

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The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

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Premise labels: surrogacy · IVF · genetic experiment · bioethics · hybrid human · secret experiment · ethical dilemma · otherness

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · 2056 · New York · London · Scottish Highlands · future society · alternate future · post-climate-change · technologically advanced

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Distance: 0.1769

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