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Premise labels used: genius team, future innovation, artificial intelligence, reality distortion, folklore intrusion, paranormal outbreak, unintended consequences, scientific experiment, world-changing tech, containment failure

Setting labels used: British setting, contemporary setting, near future, urban present, alternate reality, haunted present, technological reality, mythic Britain, modern world

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Three Moments of an Explosion

China Miéville · 2015

A 28-story collection of eerie, high-concept weird fiction where ordinary worlds are warped by impossible intrusions.

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Premise labels: strange phenomena · world disruption · uncanny intrusion · concept-driven fiction · idea stories

Setting labels: contemporary reality · near-future · alternate reality · urban setting · London · Europe · England · coastal setting · island setting · isolated enclave · medical setting · academic setting

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Injection, Vol. 3

Warren Ellis · 2017 · Injection

A hacker-investigator heads to a Cornish stone circle where folklore, AI, and an open gateway to another world collide.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · techno-magic · folklore intrusion · stone circle mystery · other world gateway · investigation · ritual murder · apocalyptic threat

Setting labels: Cornwall · moor · stone circle · ancient Britain · modern Britain · other world · urban fantasy setting · pagan landscape · British folklore

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Unforgotten

Jessica Brody · 2014 · Unremembered

A time-traveling engineered teen races to save her dying boyfriend while Diotech hunts the secret buried in her mind.

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Premise labels: time travel · memory loss · created human · genetic engineering · on the run · search for cure · love triangle

Setting labels: 1609 England · 2032 · future setting · historical setting · alternate future · scientific dystopia · time travel setting

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The Family Tree

Sheri S. Tepper · 1998

A detective in a collapsing city and a distant quest across future Earth turn out to be linked by a world-changing secret.

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Premise labels: eco-catastrophe · sentient nature · investigative mystery · dual timeline · future-earth reveal · civilization collapse · time-bridge mystery

Setting labels: near future · distant future · future Earth · contemporary Earth · urban setting · suburban setting · post-apocalyptic future · high fantasy realm · alternate reality

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Quantum of Nightmares

Charles Stross · 2022 · The New Management

In a dystopian Britain ruled by eldritch power, overlapping schemes of kidnapping, corporate horror, and occult traps collide.

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Premise labels: espionage horror · corporate takeover · eldritch government · superpowered underclass · alternate Britain · multiple conspiracies · occult investigation · kidnapping plot · corporate sabotage · superhero infiltration · supernatural shenanigans

Setting labels: alternate London · alternate Britain · near-present · dystopian Britain · urban fantasy world · eldritch rule · corporate dystopia · supernatural Britain · Channel Islands · feudal island · modern England

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The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer · 2006 · Artemis Fowl

A teenage genius races to stop a hidden demon colony from returning as a rival prodigy and time distortions complicate everything.

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Premise labels: genius versus genius · missing person rescue · time-spell collapse · hidden world exposure · race against catastrophe · covert operation · mythic return · secret species

Setting labels: modern world · hidden faerie world · underground civilization · alternate dimension · limbo · time travel · Europe · Sicily · Taiwan · outer space · magic and technology

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Exhalation

Ted Chiang · 2019

Nine idea-driven SF stories probe time, memory, AI, faith, and free will through inventive speculative scenarios.

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Premise labels: thought experiment · what if · technological change · free will · alternate realities · time travel · artificial intelligence · memory · human condition

Setting labels: near future · historical past · alternate reality · medieval Islamic world · ancient Baghdad · robot society · colonial-era Africa · alternate Earth · speculative worlds

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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages

Tom Holt · 2011 · J. W. Wells & Co.

A bewildered real-estate solicitor is pulled into a multiverse mess involving magic, chickens, pigs, and a very odd game.

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Premise labels: parallel worlds · transdimensional travel · real estate chaos · magical mishap · absurdist mystery · identity confusion · chicken-or-egg puzzle

Setting labels: modern-day Britain · English village · urban fantasy · parallel worlds · multiverse · office setting · real estate industry · alternate dimensions

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The Star Fraction

Ken MacLeod · 2002 · The Fall Revolution

In a balkanized near-future Britain, a mercenary, a scientist, and a teen are drawn into a volatile struggle over AI and revolution.

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Premise labels: security mercenary · scientist on the run · teen trying to escape · balkanized future · political microstates · AI emergence · memory-enhancing drugs · technology control · revolutionary aftermath

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · balkanized Britain · future UK · post-war world · microstates · enclaves · space-controlled world

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The Doors of Eden

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2020

A cryptid hunt pulls two women into a multiverse-spanning crisis of divergent evolution, secret agents, and collapsing worlds.

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Premise labels: parallel worlds · multiverse collapse · evolutionary divergence · cryptid hunt · missing person · alternate evolution · interdimensional threat · end of worlds

Setting labels: contemporary Earth · London · British moorlands · parallel Earths · alternate timelines · deep time · multiverse · modern day

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MindWar

Douglas E. Richards · 2016 · Nick Hall

A near-future thriller about brain-implant mind reading, betrayal, and a race to stop a catastrophic terror plot.

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Premise labels: mind reading · brain implants · terror plot · future technology · ESP · privacy invasion · secret betrayal · human evolution

Setting labels: near future · future world · stunning future · technology-forward world · current-day-adjacent · speculative reality

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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