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Setting labels used: near future, post-nuclear, post-apocalyptic, dystopian society, Grey Zones, blood-segregated society, corporate state, big-brother surveillance, future Earth, quasi-believable future
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In a post-nuclear surveillance society, a propaganda man’s secret prank against the regime threatens his career and conscience.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near-future future · nuclear aftermath · urban future · colonies · state-controlled society · conformist society · panopticon
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0961
In a war-torn future, rival factions, robots, and betrayed friends race to decide who gets freedom and who survives.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear-blasted future · corporate-controlled society · wasteland · city-state conflict · near-future
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Distance: 0.1034
A teen artist surviving alien colonization turns to art and performative romance to keep his family afloat.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · alien-occupied Earth · dystopian future · post-automation society · lower-class hardship · floating wealth enclaves
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1076
In a medically perfected future, one rebellious investigator uncovers a crisis that could expose the cost of enforced harmony.
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Setting labels: near future · post-nuclear society · Japan · global bureaucracy · medicalized society · high-surveillance future · utopian dystopia · post-apocalyptic future · world government
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Distance: 0.1083
A desperate father enters a deadly televised manhunt to save his sick child in a ruthless near-future America.
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Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · future United States · media-saturated society · class-divided society · polluted world · totalitarian state · urban decay · surveillance state
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Distance: 0.1090
Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future
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Distance: 0.1097
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: 0.1102
A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.
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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: 0.1104
In a collectivist future where even “I” is forbidden, one man’s curiosity sparks a dangerous quest for selfhood.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · totalitarian state · collectivist society · dark age future · pre-industrial future · low-tech world · controlled society · underground hideout
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Distance: 0.1122
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
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Distance: 0.1130
In a paperless dystopia, a girl finds a real book that may lead to the last library on Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near-future · dystopian world · paperless society · tree-less world · corporate state · surveilled society · high-tech world
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Distance: 0.1130
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1139
