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Premise labels used: autism cure dilemma, identity crisis, medical ethics, workplace coercion, neurodiversity

Setting labels used: near future, recognizable future world, medicalized future, pharmaceutical workplace, disabled adults

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Distance: 0.2164

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Off Target

Eve Smith · 2022

A desperate would-be mother makes a dangerous genetic choice, then faces the fallout of a near-future bioethics crisis.

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Premise labels: designer babies · genetic engineering · infertility · pregnancy secret · moral dilemma · medical ethics · unintended consequences · cover-up · reproductive technology · perfect child

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · global · UK · medical future · dystopian future · scientific future · worldwide crisis

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Distance: 0.2242

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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Distance: 0.2261

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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: 0.2270

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Feed

M.T. Anderson · 2004

A teen’s moon vacation turns into a close-up look at a brain-implanted media system, a collapsing world, and a fragile romance.

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Premise labels: brain implant · controlled media · consumer culture · teen dystopia · targeted advertising · social manipulation · internet dependency · identity crisis

Setting labels: future · moon · domed city · planetary travel · corporate society · environmental collapse · brain-networked world · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.2285

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Forget Me Not

Jordan Castillo Price · 2014 · Mnevermind

An autistic memory-technologist navigates first love, hostile reactions, and a strange memory tech in a sequel told from his POV.

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Premise labels: autism spectrum · sexuality discovery · memory technology · relationship growth · neurodivergent lead · social difficulty

Setting labels: alternate world · modern setting · urban setting · workplace setting · memory palace

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Distance: 0.2285

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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.

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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: 0.2314

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The Evening and the Morning and the Night

Octavia E. Butler · 1991 · Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks

A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.

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Premise labels: hereditary disease · cancer cure backlash · genetic mutation · medical ethics · institutional care · social stigma · disabled community · inherited illness

Setting labels: future · dystopian world · medical institution · ward setting · retreat setting · isolated community · institutionalized care

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Distance: 0.2325

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I.D.

Emma Ríos · 2016

In a red-tinted dystopian future, three strangers consider a risky body transplant that could change who they are.

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Premise labels: body transplant · brain transplant · identity crisis · body dysphoria · experimental surgery · future medicine · medical speculation · ethical dilemma · self-transformation · question of self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · Mars · part-terraformed Mars · advanced technology · riot-plagued society · scientific future · speculative future

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Distance: 0.2331

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · disability technology · mind-body split · robot bodies · virtual society · murder investigation · federal investigation · identity crisis · post-plague society

Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting

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Distance: 0.2337

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

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Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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Distance: 0.2351

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Crosstalk

Connie Willis · 2016

A tech executive’s relationship-boosting brain procedure goes wildly wrong, trapping her in telepathic chaos and family mayhem.

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Premise labels: telepathy · brain implant · empathy enhancement · overcommunication · privacy invasion · miscommunication · relationship experiment · communication overload · tech satire · family intrusion · unintended consequences

Setting labels: near future · present day · high-tech workplace · smartphone company · corporate setting · urban contemporary · alternative now · telecommunications industry

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Distance: 0.2358

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