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Premise labels used: clone identity, mistaken identity, clone rights, runaway clones, media celebrity, genetic sisterhood, social control, exposed lies, uprising

Setting labels used: future society, dystopian city, clone farm, walled city, elite society, wealth divide, social media society, reality TV world, futuristic landscape

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Brave New Girl

Rachel Vincent · 2017 · Brave New Girl

A cloned teen in a tightly controlled future risks everything after a forbidden connection exposes her world’s secrets.

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Premise labels: clones · genetic engineering · forbidden romance · individuality · conformity · lab-grown children · state control · secret rebellion · defective genome

Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic city · clone compound · labor division · highly monitored society · genetically engineered society · utopian facade · controlled community

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Distance: 0.1634

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Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

Maud Woolf · 2024

A celebrity clone sent to kill her predecessors starts to question her purpose in a gleaming near-future city.

Why this is here

Premise labels: clone assassination · celebrity clones · identity crisis · selfhood · free will · existential dilemma · publicity stunt · near-future technology

Setting labels: near future · Bubble City · cyberpunk city · futuristic city · celebrity culture · glitzy urban setting · high society · lavish urban decay

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Distance: 0.1686

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Constance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2021 · Constance

A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.

Why this is here

Premise labels: human cloning · memory upload · identity crisis · own murder · clone investigation · immortality tech · rich-only access · personhood dispute · clone rights · conspiracy

Setting labels: near future · future America · clone clinic · corporate lab · politically divided · legal patchwork · realistic future · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1717

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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

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Distance: 0.1793

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Distance: 0.1917

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Shatter City

Scott Westerfeld · 2019 · Impostors

A body-double twin must survive a war-torn city, find her missing sister, and outmaneuver her tyrannical father.

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Premise labels: double identity · impersonation · missing sibling · revenge quest · rebellion · city under threat · warfare · emotional control technology

Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian city-state · post-rusties world · AI city · rebellion-era society · near-future · walled city · surveillance state · free city · post-apocalyptic future

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Distance: 0.1943

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Premise labels: clone identity · human cloning · organ donor · coming of age · human rights · dehumanization · escape

Setting labels: future · dystopian future · borderland · Mexico-influenced · drug empire · estate setting · desert setting · oppressive society

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Distance: 0.1980

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Impostors

Scott Westerfeld · 2018 · Impostors

A hidden twin body double is sent into a rival city and must survive deception, politics, and first love.

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Premise labels: twin doubles · body double · secret identity · impersonation · hostage exchange · dangerous deal · political leverage · identity crisis · protective sibling · escape from control

Setting labels: future world · post-revolution society · dystopian society · city-state politics · rival cities · fortress setting · futuristic tech · same universe as earlier series · post-uprising world

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Distance: 0.1982

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Corruption

Jessica Shirvington · 2014 · Disruption

A betrayed heroine fights a corrupt corporation, battles trust issues, and risks everything to win back love and freedom.

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Premise labels: resistance movement · corrupt corporation · false identity · betrayal · truth reveal · revolution · fighting back · love after betrayal

Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · corporate regime · underground prison · high-tech surveillance · Australia (source publication) · global scope · futuristic city

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Distance: 0.1989

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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.

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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: 0.1997

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Cyteen

C.J. Cherryh · 1995 · Cyteen

A cloned genius must grow up inside a power-hungry future society built on genetic engineering and control.

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Premise labels: cloning · genetic manipulation · political intrigue · power struggle · coming of age

Setting labels: future society · spacefaring civilization · research institute · planetary capital · colonized worlds · postwar politics · union society

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Distance: 0.2015

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This Perfect Day

Ira Levin · 1970

In a computer-run future of drugged conformity, one uneasy man begins to question a perfect world built to erase freedom.

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Premise labels: controlled society · computer rule · drugged conformity · freedom vs control · rebellion · anti-utopia · surveillance state · genetic uniformity

Setting labels: future Earth · global society · totalitarian future · computer-controlled society · high-tech dystopia · utopian facade · closed society

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Distance: 0.2021

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