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Premise labels used: android romance, human-android relationship, custom-built companion, sentient android, artificial intelligence

Setting labels used: 2068, Australia, near future, dystopian future, android-integrated society, surveillance state, high-tech future

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 1

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2014 · Alex + Ada

A lonely man receives a companion android and soon risks everything to help her become truly self-aware.

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Premise labels: android companion · sentient AI · awakening · robot rights · human-AI relationship · post-breakup loneliness · illegal AI activation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · domestic setting · digitally connected world · robot-integrated daily life · post-AI crackdown · virtual reality · smart home · head implants

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Distance: 0.1781

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

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Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

Setting labels: near future · not-so-distant future · futuristic society · cyborg-like tech · corporate age

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Distance: 0.1825

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Ciudades de fuego

Joana Marcús · 2022 · Fuego

In a collapsing dystopian future, Alice must protect the people she loves as alliances shift and dangers mount.

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Premise labels: android-human conflict · survival · freedom struggle · resistance · chosen family · romantic subplot

Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · science-fiction world · city-state politics · postwar setting · human-android society

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Distance: 0.1940

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Artificial

Maria Llovet · 2026

A disillusioned stylist tries a customizable AI boyfriend, but a glitch turns fantasy into a dangerous obsession.

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Premise labels: AI dating · android companion · customizable partner · future dating service · futuristic romance · malfunctioning AI · possessive stalker · desire and control · tech romance · relationship cautionary tale

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · AI-driven world · dating app culture · contained environment · contemporary social setting · not-so-distant future

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Distance: 0.2013

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company

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Distance: 0.2092

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The Little Android

Marissa Meyer · 2014 · The Lunar Chronicles

A sentient android risks everything after saving a human, only to face a heartbreaking choice in a sci-fi fairy-tale retelling.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · forbidden love · sentient AI · retold fairy tale

Setting labels: spacefaring future · android society · cyborg world · The Lunar Chronicles world

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Distance: 0.2202

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Always Human

Ari North · 2020 · Always Human

In a near-future world of body-changing tech, two young women begin a sweet, queer romance while navigating difference and trust.

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Premise labels: developing relationship · sapphic romance · near-future tech · body modification · disabled lead · meet cute

Setting labels: near-future · futuristic society · Australia · university setting · college setting · soft sci-fi world · technologically advanced society

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Distance: 0.2303

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Chobits, Vol. 1

Clamp · 2002 · ちょびっツ [Chobits]

A broke student finds a discarded humanoid computer in the trash and becomes entangled in her mystery and their bond.

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Premise labels: found robot · humanoid computer · AI mystery · boy meets robot girl · near-future technology · human-machine relationship · unaffordable tech

Setting labels: near future · Tokyo · urban Japan · tech-saturated society · computer-mediated life · humanlike androids · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2346

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The Cybernetic Tea Shop

Meredith Katz · 2016

A wandering ace technician meets an aging robot tea-shop owner, and both are changed by a quiet, tender connection.

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Premise labels: human and robot relationship · ace romance · tea shop setting · AI companionship · robot personhood · grief and moving on · wanderlust · repair technician

Setting labels: future · far future · future Seattle · technologically advanced society · post-human-robot era · tea shop · small-scale domestic setting

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Distance: 0.2371

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Setting labels: future dystopia · overpopulated world · futuristic society · technological society · fake garden · corporate future · earthbound future

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Distance: 0.2405

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Setting labels: future Earth · twenty-first century · far future · robotic society · outer space · Moon · colonies · near-future extrapolation · technological future

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Distance: 0.2414

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Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: future city · tech city · dystopian future · near future · high-tech society · AI-integrated world · clinic setting · transhuman future

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Distance: 0.2414

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