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Adrian J. Walker

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Premise labels used: human extinction, environmental recovery, engineered species, single-child experiment, parenting experiment, species judgment, humanity test

Setting labels used: future Earth, post-human Earth, climate-repaired world, biotech world, near-future, distant future, speculative future

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Setting labels: distant future · post-apocalyptic · post-extinction · Earth · isolated communities · small tribes · far future · millennial timespan · geological eons · post-catastrophic world

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Distance: 0.1457

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Starość aksolotla

Jacek Dukaj · 2015

After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.

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Premise labels: global extinction · mind upload · digital survival · posthuman society · robot bodies · rebuilding civilization · body-soul question · humanity after apocalypse · virtual consciousness · machine habitation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · post-human future · digital afterlife · robot civilization · near future · post-biological world · collapsed biosphere · networked world · mechanical bodies · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1592

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space colonization · undersea habitation · ice age · greenhouse effect · ozone depletion · magnetic reversal · ruined planet · extreme environments

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Distance: 0.1637

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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Nancy Kress · 2012

Three timelines collide as Earth falls, survivors steal hope from the past, and a mathematician uncovers the pattern.

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Premise labels: human extinction · environmental catastrophe · time travel · last survivors · gene pool recovery · kidnapped children · mystery investigation · alien shelter · civilization restart

Setting labels: near future · 2013 · 2014 · 2035 · Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · sealed habitat · sterile enclosure · dome habitat · artificial shelter · past and future

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Distance: 0.1657

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Lilith's Brood

Octavia E. Butler · 2000 · Xenogenesis

A post-apocalyptic trilogy about humanity’s survival bargain with aliens who demand genetic and social transformation.

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Premise labels: human survival · alien rescue · genetic trade · human-alien hybridization · species merger · postwar recovery · forced adaptation · posthuman future · planetary restoration · survival bargain

Setting labels: post-nuclear Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · alien ship · rehabilitated planet · cryogenic suspension · interstellar setting · posthuman society · mutated Earth

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Distance: 0.1686

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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson · 2015

After the moon shatters, humanity races to survive in orbit, then confronts a radically changed Earth millennia later.

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Premise labels: moon disaster · species survival · orbital ark · human extinction · future return

Setting labels: near future · space station · low Earth orbit · outer space · far future · post-cataclysm Earth · futuristic Earth

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Distance: 0.1688

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The Afterlife Project

Tim Weed · 2025

Two timelines race against human extinction: one scientist survives the deep future, while others search for a way to continue the species.

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Premise labels: human extinction · species survival · future mission · last chance · fertility quest · scientific rescue · deep future · post-collapse survival · lonely survivor · repopulation

Setting labels: 2068 · far future · deep future · post-apocalyptic Earth · rewilded Earth · uninhabited wilderness · New Hampshire · Mediterranean Sea · volcanic island · post-climate-collapse · post-pandemic world

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Distance: 0.1725

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Emergency Skin

N.K. Jemisin · 2019

A mission to a supposedly ruined Earth exposes a future society’s lies, prejudice, and unexpected possibility.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · return mission · resource retrieval · post-apocalyptic Earth · AI companion · social inversion

Setting labels: distant future · Earth · off-world colony · post-climate catastrophe · near-future science fiction · interplanetary

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Distance: 0.1736

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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

C.M. Kosemen · 2008

An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.

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Premise labels: future history · human evolution · alien conquest · genetic modification · posthuman future · space colonization · terraforming · speculative biology · cosmic punishment

Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality

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Distance: 0.1777

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler · 1995

A Hugo-winning short story collection where Octavia Butler explores alien coexistence, illness, language loss, and the costs of survival.

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Premise labels: alien contact · symbiotic coexistence · genetic disease · post-apocalyptic survival · communication breakdown · thought experiment · moral dilemma · duty versus freedom

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · alien planet · human colony · Earth

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Distance: 0.1786

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · body modification · human enhancement · life extension · bioethics · future humanity · perfectionism · medical intervention

Setting labels: near future · distant future · alternate future · our world · futuristic Earth · global society · undersea setting · asteroid belt

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Distance: 0.1794

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Above World

Jenn Reese · 2012 · Above World

A brave young Kampii leaves her failing undersea colony to find answers in a dangerous future world.

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Premise labels: undersea survival · failing technology · save the colony · quest for answers · overpopulated future · genetic adaptation · journey to the surface · cross-culture encounter

Setting labels: future Earth · undersea city · post-apocalyptic world · extreme habitats · land and sea · sky colonies · desert colonies · genetically altered societies

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Distance: 0.1806

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