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Premise labels used: nanotechnology gone wrong, rogue swarm, predator technology, human vs machine, cautionary tale, technology threat, self-replicating system

Setting labels used: Nevada desert, Silicon Valley, high-tech lab, secret facility, workplace setting, contemporary setting

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Бот. Атакамська криза

Max Kidruk, Макс Кідрук · 2020 · Бот

A Kyiv programmer is pulled into a secret desert project and faces a frightening technological crisis he helped enable.

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Premise labels: programmer protagonist · secret project · nanotechnology · unwitting involvement · hidden experiment · technological catastrophe · controlled humans · dangerous bot project · job as trap · scientific overreach

Setting labels: Chile · Atacama Desert · Kyiv · secret research facility · isolated compound · contemporary setting · remote desert setting · high-tech lab

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Stealthy Steps

Vikki Kestell · 2015 · Nanostealth

A forgettable assistant gets pulled into a secret nanotech conspiracy and becomes invisible while a corrupt general hunts her.

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Premise labels: invisibility · nanotechnology · secret lab · government conspiracy · spywork · corrupt military · tech theft · science gone wrong · ordinary woman in danger

Setting labels: present day · Albuquerque · New Mexico · Air Force base · secret laboratory · underground facility · military base · real-world setting

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Dark Rising

Greig Beck · 2011 · Alex Hunter

A super-soldier and covert team race to stop a black-hole experiment in Iran before it unleashes a world-ending threat.

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Premise labels: black hole threat · covert mission · military team · scientific disaster · monster threat · counterterrorism · secret technology · world-ending stakes

Setting labels: Iran · Middle East · desert setting · underground facility · secret lab · ancient caves · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2287

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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: 0.2292

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Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings

Frank Schätzing · 2018

A small-town sheriff’s death inquiry leads to a hidden tech project, strange realities, and an AI-shaped crisis.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · parallel universes · small-town sheriff · corporate secrecy · scientific mystery · high-tech conspiracy

Setting labels: California · Sierra Nevada · Silicon Valley · small town · mountain wilderness · futuristic near-future · parallel universe · contemporary

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Nano

Robin Cook · 2012 · Pia Grazdani

A troubled medical student joins a secretive nanotech institute and uncovers dangerous experiments hidden behind corporate secrecy.

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Premise labels: nanotechnology · medical research · corporate secrecy · human experimentation · conspiracy · moral dilemma

Setting labels: Boulder, Colorado · New York City · Rockies · corporate campus · nanotechnology institute · medical research setting · contemporary

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His Master's Voice

Stanisław Lem · 1995

A mathematician in a secret desert project tries to decode a mysterious neutrino message that may be alien—or unknowable.

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Premise labels: alien signal · message decoding · first contact · secret research project · scientific inquiry · military oversight · epistemic uncertainty · communication failure · signal interpretation · unknown intelligence

Setting labels: Nevada desert · United States · secret facility · government laboratory · cold war America · near future · desert research site

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Distance: 0.2333

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BZRK: Reloaded

Michael Grant · 2013 · BZRK

A shattered teen resistance fights a brain-hacking enemy in a high-tech war over free will and sanity.

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Premise labels: nanotechnology battle · brain control · free will · mind invasion · resistance group · hidden war · political manipulation · insurgency · micro-level warfare · sanity versus madness

Setting labels: alternate present · near future · multiple cities · Washington, DC · New York City · Chicago · Japan · microscopic level · macro and micro worlds · contemporary setting

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Mount Dragon

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 2005

A secret desert lab’s attempt to engineer a flu cure spirals into a deadly biosecurity crisis and survival chase.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · biotechnology · virus outbreak · pandemic threat · secret lab · medical breakthrough · corporate conspiracy · human enhancement · bioweapon risk · scientific ethics · desert facility · remote research station

Setting labels: New Mexico · desert setting · remote research facility · high-security lab · psychiatric hospital · corporate headquarters · biohazard lab · Level 5 lab · isolated workplace · near nuclear test site · contemporary setting · mid-90s setting

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Version Zero

David Yoon · 2021

A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.

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Premise labels: big tech · data privacy · surveillance capitalism · internet shutdown · hacktivism · vigilante justice · corporate whistleblowing · revenge plot · tech satire · digital resistance

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · simulated current world · Silicon Valley · internet culture · social media world · tech industry · virtual world · online society

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Loop

Kōji Suzuki · 2006 · リング [Ring]

A young man chases the truth behind a deadly virus and discovers a reality far stranger than he imagined.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · scientific mystery · simulation theory · cure quest · world-ending infection · artificial life · origin mystery · existential crisis

Setting labels: virtual reality · computer simulation · desert setting · New Mexico · real world · futuristic science lab · apocalyptic world · contemporary

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Influx

Daniel Suarez · 2015

A physicist’s gravity breakthrough draws a covert agency that hoards dangerous advances and traps rebels in a hidden prison.

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Premise labels: hidden technology · secret government agency · technological suppression · inventor abduction · anti-gravity breakthrough · scientific conspiracy · power monopoly

Setting labels: near future · contemporary future · high-tech prison · secret facility · shadow government · United States · underground cells · covert research complex

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