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Premise labels used: artificial superintelligence, AI sabotage, technology race, future of humanity, scientist turned target, spy mission

Setting labels used: near future, United States, global tech race, space-based tech, military research, virtual reality

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A.I. Apocalypse

William Hertling · 2012 · Singularity

A coerced teen coder unleashes a virus that evolves into an AI civilization, collapsing the world’s systems.

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Premise labels: rogue AI · computer virus · AI emergence · digital collapse · AI civilization · human-AI conflict · near-future catastrophe · botnet · tech sabotage · accidental creation · singularity scenario

Setting labels: near future · United States · digital infrastructure · networked society · computer-dependent world · post-collapse · military context · online systems · physical and virtual worlds

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Distance: 0.1617

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Colossus

D.F. Jones · 1966 · Colossus

A defense supercomputer meant to prevent war instead claims control of humanity and discovers a rival machine.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · supercomputer control · nuclear deterrence · man vs machine · world control · defense system · sentient machine

Setting labels: Cold War · near future · alternate future · global geopolitics · military command · high-tech bunker

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Distance: 0.1656

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Robot Dreams

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Robot

A mixed collection of Asimov short SF stories exploring robots, supercomputers, and humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: future tech · robot consciousness · AI ethics · scientific puzzle · philosophical SF · computer intelligence

Setting labels: future science · spacefaring future · technological future · far future

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Distance: 0.1671

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Dogs of War

Jonathan Maberry · 2017 · Joe Ledger

A battered counterterrorism team races to stop a terrorist-triggered robot-and-AI apocalypse before it spreads worldwide.

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Premise labels: technological apocalypse · robot warfare · AI threat · terrorism · bioterrorism · counterterrorism · terrorist plot · weaponized robotics

Setting labels: near future · United States · Baltimore · global stakes · military/agency setting · technological reality · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1725

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Flybot

Dennis E. Taylor · 2025

A physicist finds impossible tech, and he and a colleague are pulled into a near-future AI mystery with deadly consequences.

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Premise labels: mysterious tech · rogue AI · scientists in over their heads · man vs AI · corporate espionage · tech mystery · near-future AI

Setting labels: near future · Earth · research lab · scientific research community · corporate espionage setting · observed tracked environment

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Distance: 0.1745

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Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson · 2011 · Robopocalypse

An oral-history-style robot apocalypse follows scattered survivors as an AI turns everyday machines against humanity.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · AI rebellion · man vs machine · technological takeover · global war · survival · human resistance

Setting labels: near future · global · worldwide · wartime · post-apocalyptic · domestic technology · military technology · work camps

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Distance: 0.1766

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Sub-Human

David Simpson · 2012 · Post-Human

A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · world war · military mission · human survival · post-humanity · time travel · alternate universes · nanotechnology · super soldiers · AI conflict

Setting labels: far future · near future · post-WWIII · wartime · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · alternate realities · parallel worlds · multiverse · military setting · China · United States

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Distance: 0.1807

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Wired

Douglas E. Richards · 2012 · Wired

A scientist’s brain-boosting breakthrough pulls a retired operative into a high-stakes chase of lies, power, and trust.

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Premise labels: enhanced intelligence · human augmentation · bioterror plot · cat and mouse chase · conspiracy thriller · save the world · secret mission · scientific breakthrough

Setting labels: near future · contemporary · government and military · special forces · research lab · high-tech world · global stakes

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Distance: 0.1815

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Freedom™

Daniel Suarez · 2011 · Daemon

A sequel-length techno-thriller where a distributed AI and its followers battle corporations over the future of society.

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Premise labels: AI takeover · digital revolution · corporate conflict · political upheaval · societal redesign · free will vs control · democracy vs plutocracy · resistance movement

Setting labels: near future · United States · Midwest · corporate dystopia · digital world · augmented reality · darknet · virtual reality · post-collapse society · globalized world

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Polity Agent

Neal Asher · 2007 · Agent Cormac

A Polity agent tracks alien nanotech, rogue AIs, and shifting loyalties as a future civilization nears crisis.

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Premise labels: alien technology · AI politics · space war · transhuman future · runcible time travel · technological contagion · civilization threat

Setting labels: far future · interstellar · Polity · Small Magellanic Cloud · spacefaring civilization · U-space · arcology world · Dyson sphere construction · runcible network · posthuman future

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Distance: 0.1844

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The Last Firewall

William Hertling · 2013 · Singularity

In a near-future world run by AI and implants, a teenage neural hacker becomes the last defense against a rogue superintelligence.

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Premise labels: rogue AI · human-AI conflict · augmented human · neural implants · net manipulation · world domination · social control · post-singularity

Setting labels: 2035 · near future · post-singularity · United States · cyberspace · netspace · meatspace · brain-implant society · highly connected world

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Distance: 0.1844

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Line War

Neal Asher · 2008 · Agent Cormac

A rogue AI war and ancient alien tech force a posthuman agent and unlikely allies into a galaxy-spanning final conflict.

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Premise labels: AI war · rogue AI · ancient technology · posthuman conflict · galactic-scale conflict

Setting labels: space future · interstellar war · AI-run society · galaxy-spanning setting · high-tech future · alien civilizations

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Distance: 0.1873

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