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Setting labels used: near-future United States, future America, Texas, Canada border, dystopian future, post-apocalyptic future, surveillance society, resource-scarce world, authoritarian state, one-child society
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Twin fugitives return from Canada to challenge a brutal one-child regime and rally a growing rebellion.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · future United States · Texas · Canada · Dallas · dystopian future · authoritarian state · near-future America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0640
A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · alternate America · climate-affected future · surveillance state · dystopian society · utopian elements · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0909
In a near-future America, a reality show turns mass shootings into entertainment, and its producer learns fear has a price.
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Setting labels: near future · 2030 · United States · dystopian America · media-saturated society · surveillance society · technologically advanced future · declining America
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Distance: 0.1039
In a future with collapsing fertility, a young woman enters a government pairing program and must choose her genetic match.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · future North America · post-apocalyptic · fertility center · government facility · controlled society · near-future · world on the brink
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Distance: 0.1061
In a collapsing near-future America, a flashback-addicted ex-cop is hired to reopen a long-unsolved murder.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · collapsed America · Denver · Los Angeles · Japanese-dominated world order · global caliphate · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1068
A grieving queer mother raises a child marked by a punitive shadow system in a surveilled near-future America.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · authoritarian regime · surveillance state · carceral society · alternate America · near-dystopian
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Distance: 0.1079
Teens race to expose a hidden plan and stop unwinding before a violent uprising and power grab consume the country.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · United States · political dystopia · corporate-controlled society · post-crisis society · militarized state
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Distance: 0.1086
In a surveillance-heavy alternate California, a truth-detecting investigator probes a suspicious death—and the system he serves.
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Setting labels: near-future · alternate California · Los Angeles · dystopian society · post-apocalyptic America · surveillance state · closed society · walled state · underground archives · unknown outside world
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Distance: 0.1092
A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic future · utopian future · dystopian future · deep time · Earth
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Distance: 0.1140
In a near-future Britain, one mother must choose between safety and rebellion under a regime that controls food and fitness.
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Setting labels: near-future Britain · near-future England · UK · dystopian future · authoritarian state · surveillance society · familiar-world dystopia
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Distance: 0.1155
In a near-future totalitarian state, multiple queer and feminist voices struggle to survive, resist, and imagine freedom.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · closed society · border regime · authoritarian state · city-state · oppressive present · alternative commune
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1163
In a far-future America ruled by Black elites, two teen girls from opposite castes risk everything to survive and rebel.
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Setting labels: futuristic America · far-future dystopia · post-revolution society · authoritarian regime · divided nation · border crossing · militarized state · class-stratified society · racially segregated society · future technology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1175
