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Setting labels used: near-future, alternate world, New York, urban setting, speculative reality, technology-mediated

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Future Feeling

Joss Lake · 2021

A jealous trans dog walker’s revenge curse backfires, launching him into a surreal queer quest for a stranger’s rescue.

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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · New York City · Brooklyn · Bushwick · Los Angeles · California · semi-realistic future · alternate future · mood-responsive technology · internet-mediated world · semi-physical afterlife · urban setting · mysterious dimension · magical realism setting

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Distance: 0.1065

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Absolute Promethea, Book One

Alan Moore · 2009 · Absolute Promethea

A college student’s research into a mythic heroine pulls her into an occult, reality-bending role as Promethea.

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Setting labels: futuristic New York · alternate reality · near-future · metaphysical realm · afterlife · collective unconscious · mythic reality

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Distance: 0.0848

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Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2011

A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.

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Setting labels: United States · New York City · 1990s · early 2000s · near future · contemporary realism · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.0981

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Awaken Me Darkly

Gena Showalter · 2006 · Alien Huntress

An alien hunter in near-future Chicago investigates serial murders and is forced into an uneasy alliance with a suspect.

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Setting labels: near-future · future Earth · alternate future · Chicago · New Chicago · alien-integration world · urban setting

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Distance: 0.0988

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The Loosening Skin

Aliya Whiteley · 2018

In a world where skin-shedding erases love, a woman with a rare condition is pulled into a stolen-skins mystery.

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Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel world · near-future · contemporary-like world · urban

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Distance: 0.0990

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The World We Make

N.K. Jemisin · 2022 · Great Cities

New York’s living avatars must unite other cities to stop a multiversal threat and a very human political takeover.

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Setting labels: New York City · modern day · contemporary urban setting · global cities · multiverse · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1011

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Vanguard

Karina Halle · 2026

A poisoned spy infiltrates a powerful enhanced super-soldier’s circle and falls for the one man she can’t kill.

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Setting labels: near future · post-dystopian · 2040 · London · New York City · near-future America · cyberpunk aesthetic · corporate-controlled society · technologically advanced world

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Distance: 0.1031

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Greatest Hits

Harlan Ellison · 2024

A themed best-of anthology of Harlan Ellison’s short fiction, mixing iconic SF, horror, and surreal, unsettling tales.

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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternative reality · mythic space · afterlife · city life · time-bending

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Distance: 0.1043

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Version Control

Dexter Palmer · 2016

A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.

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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · United States · information age · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.1063

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UnWorld

Jayson Greene · 2025

In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.

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Setting labels: near future · digital future · technological dystopia · suburban setting · virtual reality · AI-saturated world · slightly off-present

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Distance: 0.1070

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Adjustment Day

Chuck Palahniuk · 2019

A satirical dystopia follows a violent American revolution that splits society into separate nations by identity.

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Setting labels: near future · United States · alternate society · dystopian future · internet age

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Distance: 0.1079

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Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Jack Womack · 1993 · Dryco

A privileged New York girl’s diary records her family’s fall as a near-future city and country unravel around her.

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Setting labels: near-future Manhattan · New York City · alternate reality · urban dystopia · civil unrest · economic collapse

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Distance: 0.1085

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