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Setting labels used: near future, future world, stunning future, technology-forward world, current-day-adjacent, speculative reality
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Twelve uncanny stories twist modern life, turning grief, technology, and desire into strange new monsters.
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Setting labels: modern world · near future · futuristic · contemporary · dystopian future · everyday reality · surreal reality · high-tech future · suburbia · workplace
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Distance: 0.0962
An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.
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Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company
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Distance: 0.1048
A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future
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Distance: 0.1068
An annual best-of anthology of 20 speculative stories chosen by R.F. Kuang from the previous year's SF and fantasy.
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Setting labels: near future · future world · modern day · contemporary · suburban · apocalyptic · cyberpunk · interstellar · space travel · fantasy world
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Distance: 0.1087
An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.
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Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality
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Distance: 0.1097
When hidden portals link Earth to human worlds beyond, two field agents must stop a conquest that could decide all worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · other planets · Earth-like worlds · alternate worlds · interplanetary setting · contemporary world · advanced technology future
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Distance: 0.1120
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
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Distance: 0.1130
A desperate would-be mother makes a dangerous genetic choice, then faces the fallout of a near-future bioethics crisis.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · global · UK · medical future · dystopian future · scientific future · worldwide crisis
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Distance: 0.1183
A sentient-space-probe story about immortal humanity, future football, and the search for meaning in endless time.
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Setting labels: distant future · far future · post-scarcity · immortality · Earth · space · North America · United States · climate-changed world · speculative future · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1204
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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Setting labels: near future · technological future · digital society · wired world · not too distant future · contemporary future
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Distance: 0.1225
A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society
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Distance: 0.1226
A data courier with a brain implant must outrun criminals and recover stolen secrets before the information destroys him.
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Setting labels: near future · future Japan · Beijing · United States · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · high-tech wasteland · urban future · twenty-first century · globalized future
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Distance: 0.1247
