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Liselle Sambury

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Premise labels used: witch trial, forced choice, first love, family magic, ancestor task, magic inheritance, genetic matchmaking, murder dilemma, moral dilemma, save the family

Setting labels used: future Toronto, near-future, 2049, Canadian setting, urban setting, futuristic society, tech-mediated society

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Blood Like Fate

Liselle Sambury · 2022 · Blood Like Magic

A young witch matriarch must unite a fractured community and stop a deadly future, even if it costs her love.

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Premise labels: witch community · family leadership · future threat · vision of doom · community defense · forbidden romance · matriarch duty

Setting labels: near future · futuristic Toronto · Canada · witch community · contemporary-adjacent · urban setting · Black Canadian family · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2007

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The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

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Premise labels: surrogacy · IVF · genetic experiment · bioethics · hybrid human · secret experiment · ethical dilemma · otherness

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · 2056 · New York · London · Scottish Highlands · future society · alternate future · post-climate-change · technologically advanced

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Distance: 0.2167

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Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · 2012

In a collapsed future Toronto, a young mother and her healer grandmother confront crime, spirits, and family legacy.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dystopian city · resource scarcity · organ trafficking · heart transplant plot · young mother protagonist · ancestral magic · spirit world · family mystery · community survival · crime lord rule

Setting labels: future Toronto · inner city · post-collapse city · walled-off city · urban decay · Caribbean diaspora · Canadian setting · near future

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Distance: 0.2210

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The Affinities

Robert Charles Wilson · 2015

A lonely young man joins a near-future compatibility group and discovers a new social order that could remake society.

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Premise labels: social sorting · found family · tribalism · neo-tribal future · group compatibility · instant belonging

Setting labels: near future · present-day adjacent · social media age · Canada · urban contemporary · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2293

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Dwindle

K.A. Gandy · 2022 · Populations Crumble

In a future with collapsing fertility, a young woman enters a government pairing program and must choose her genetic match.

Why this is here

Premise labels: forced matchmaking · genetic compatibility · fertility crisis · population collapse · government control · arranged marriage · reproductive dystopia · partner selection

Setting labels: dystopian future · future North America · post-apocalyptic · fertility center · government facility · controlled society · near-future · world on the brink

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Distance: 0.2311

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The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Shallee McArthur · 2014

A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.

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Premise labels: memory theft · stored memories · genetically enhanced humans · social divide · thief hunt · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · future society · city setting · closed community · urban dystopia · futuristic technology · science fiction world · class divide

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Distance: 0.2353

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Suicide Club

Rachel Heng · 2018

In a near-future NYC where immortality is rationed, a model citizen is pulled toward a rebel group that rejects eternal life.

Why this is here

Premise labels: immortality · life extension · illegal death · health-obsessed society · genetic selection · body enhancement · underground resistance · family rupture

Setting labels: near future · near-future NYC · future America · dystopian city · biotech society · high surveillance · strict regulation · immortal elite · social underclass · urban near future

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Distance: 0.2370

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Rollback

Robert J. Sawyer · 2007

An elderly SETI scientist gets a shot at youth to decode an alien message, but the procedure changes only her husband.

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Premise labels: first contact · rejuvenation · age reversal · alien message · ethical dilemma · long-distance communication · marital strain · life extension

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · Canada · Earth · deep space communication · realistic future · scientific world

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Distance: 0.2375

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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: 0.2392

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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: 0.2412

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Collared

Kari Gregg · 2011

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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Premise labels: genetic mutation · biological disaster · dominant-submissive society · protective collaring · claimed lover · power imbalance · forced dependence · rights stripped away

Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression

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Distance: 0.2412

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Wither

Lauren DeStefano · 2011 · The Chemical Garden

In a dying future, a kidnapped teen bride plots escape from a gilded prison built on genetic failure.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment fallout · shortened lifespan · kidnapped bride · forced marriage · polygamous household · escape attempt · survival under scarcity

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic America · isolated mansion · gilded cage · collapsed society · surveillance house · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2413

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