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Premise labels used: memory loss, time manipulation, conspiracy, secret agent, corruption, trust issues, on the run, false memories

Setting labels used: futuristic Detroit, 2030, near future, alternative world, post-urban decay, secret government

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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: 0.1655

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Paycheck

Philip K. Dick · 1953

A memory-wiped engineer receives odd trinkets instead of his paycheck and must use them to survive and uncover the truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory wipe · future clues · on the run · corporate secret · time-scooping · predestination · survival puzzle

Setting labels: dystopian future · police state · corporate power · authoritarian government · industrial workplace · near future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1749

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A Visit to the Husband Archive

Kaliane Bradley · 2025 · The Time Traveler's Passport

In a memory-starved dystopia, a woman checks out a husband from an archive and learns what books can restore.

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Premise labels: memory loss · stolen time · archive companion · knowledge transfer · alien occupation · post-invasion society · cultural preservation

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-alien invasion · postcolonial future · agricultural collective · archive setting · memory-depleted society

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Distance: 0.1765

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The Currents of Space

Isaac Asimov · 1991 · Galactic Empire

An amnesiac investigator on an oppressed resource planet uncovers a galactic conspiracy that could avert disaster—or ignite war.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · political intrigue · galactic conspiracy · resource exploitation · warning of planetary disaster · mystery investigation · interplanetary power struggle · colonial oppression

Setting labels: far future · galactic empire · planetary society · colonial society · feudal system · interplanetary civilization · spacefaring · planetary divide · upper city · lower city

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Distance: 0.1799

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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: 0.1815

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Mind's Eye

Douglas E. Richards · 2014 · Nick Hall

An amnesiac man with brain implants can read minds and surf the web by thought, while assassins hunt him for answers.

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Premise labels: amnesia · brain implants · mind reading · thought-controlled internet · man on the run · assassins · identity mystery · technology threat · conspiracy · cat-and-mouse chase

Setting labels: near future · technological future · digital society · wired world · not too distant future · contemporary future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1829

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The Chimes

Anna Smaill · 2015

In a music-ruled London where memory resets daily, a young outsider pursues the truth and a way to change everything.

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Premise labels: memory loss · forbidden writing · music-based communication · authoritarian control · quest for truth · special gift · memory retrieval · restoring freedom

Setting labels: alternate London · future England · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian society · ruined city · country-to-city journey

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1832

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Forest of Memory

Mary Robinette Kowal · 2016 · METAtropolis

A memory-dependent antiques dealer loses her digital lifeline in the woods and must recount an unsettling abduction from memory alone.

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Premise labels: memory loss · unreliable narration · offline survival · abduction mystery · technology dependence · authenticity economy · collectibles trade · AI companion

Setting labels: near future · hyper-connected society · ubiquitous network · embedded implants · smart dust · nature-surrounded forest · off-grid · not-too-distant future

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Distance: 0.1843

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Quarantine

Greg Egan · 1995

A bio-enhanced PI hunts a vanished woman in a quarantined solar system and stumbles into a reality-bending quantum mystery.

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Premise labels: quarantine bubble · missing person case · private investigator · brain modification · quantum mechanics · observer effect · wave function collapse · parallel universes · near future · cyberpunk noir

Setting labels: near future · solar system quarantine · future Australia · Perth · New Hong Kong · late 21st century · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · sealed-off Earth · cyberpunk future

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Distance: 0.1852

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The Dividing Sky

Jill Tew · 2024

In a corporate dystopia, a memory seller and a law enforcer are forced together when she loses her memories.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory trade · illegal memories · corporate control · class divide · fugitive chase · forced proximity · amnesia romance · enemies to lovers · humanity vs system · resistance awakening

Setting labels: near future · futuristic city · dystopian future · corporate state · privatized society · hypercapitalist world · metro city · wilderness · no-man's-land

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Distance: 0.1885

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Distance: 0.1889

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The Original

Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal · 2020

A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.

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Premise labels: clone hunt · identity crisis · self versus self · memory loss · murder investigation · government surveillance · immortality cost · replica mission · truth seeking · forced replacement

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1894

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