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Premise labels used: brain implant, technology adoption, family division, social inequality, access disparity, medical tech, workplace pressure, school pressure, anti-technology movement

Setting labels used: near future, school setting, workplace setting, political office, military setting, technological reality

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Daniel H. Wilson · 2012

In a near-future America, a teacher with a brain implant is swept into a civil-rights crisis over human enhancement.

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Premise labels: brain implants · enhanced humans · civil rights backlash · identity crisis · government discrimination · transhuman conflict · medical augmentation · public fear

Setting labels: near future · future America · Pittsburgh · Oklahoma · trailer park · school setting · dystopian America · civil unrest · secret military program

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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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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Premise labels: brain implant · augmented reality · social media · surveillance state · government overreach · technology ethics · memory access · dream control · future crimes · forced adoption

Setting labels: near-future London · future Britain · dystopian future · technology-driven society · virtual reality layer · augmented reality · off-grid island · wilderness encampment · state care

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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge · 2006

A rejuvenated poet must relearn a hyperconnected future while a hidden mind-control plot and a library protest unfold.

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Premise labels: near-future tech · augmented reality · medical rejuvenation · alzheimers recovery · mind control conspiracy · library digitization protest · digital surveillance · world domination plot

Setting labels: near future · San Diego · university campus · high school · networked society · digitally layered reality · physically recognizable future

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Made in Korea

Jeremy Holt · 2022 · Made in Korea

An adopted AI child in a near-future world confronts identity, family, and control as her strange origins unravel.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · android child · adoptive family · identity crisis · gender identity · coming of age · sentient AI · manufactured child · self-discovery · family system

Setting labels: near-future · future Korea · United States · South Korea · Texas · dystopian-leaning future · high school · corporate-controlled world · post-birth decline · science-fiction reality

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The Feed

Nick Clark Windo · 2018

When a brain-linked social network collapses, two survivors must find their missing daughter in a world gone offline.

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Premise labels: social media dystopia · brain implant · information dependence · technology collapse · offline survival · missing child · mind invasion · identity uncertainty

Setting labels: near future · post-collapse world · technology-saturated society · isolated survivor camp · ravaged landscape · lawless world · no-technology environment · future Earth

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Player Piano

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2006

In a machine-run America, an elite engineer questions a system that makes most people obsolete and meaningless.

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Premise labels: automation · machine dominance · job displacement · technological alienation · industrial dystopia · human purpose · corporate control · social stratification · revolt

Setting labels: near future · postwar future · post-WWIII · United States · industrial America · company town · factory world · automated society

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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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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: 0.2244

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Stupid Perfect World

Scott Westerfeld · 2012

In a perfected future, two teens must live ancient hardships for class and discover what their world lacks.

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Premise labels: utopian future · scarcity experiment · future school · ancient hardship · teen project · controlled body · sleep deprivation · hormone regulation · perfect society

Setting labels: future Earth · utopian society · near future · high-tech future · teleportation · headspace · solar system travel · school setting

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The Hercules Text

Jack McDevitt · 1986

A signal from deep space gives humanity shocking knowledge, forcing scientists and leaders to confront secrecy, faith, and power.

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Premise labels: alien signal · decoding message · human reaction · public disclosure · technological disruption · societal upheaval · contact without meeting · knowledge shock

Setting labels: near future · Earth · space agency · NASA-like setting · Cold War context · post-Cold War update · global politics · religious institutions

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Nexus

Ramez Naam · 2012 · Nexus

A young scientist is coerced into a spy mission after a mind-linking nano-drug becomes a global security threat.

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Premise labels: mind link · brain interface · drug tech · human enhancement · posthuman transition · illegal technology · government crackdown · spy coercion · technological arms race · hive mind · coercion technology · mind control · knowledge transfer

Setting labels: near future · 2040 · mid-21st century · San Francisco · Bangkok · Shanghai · Washington DC · Thailand · international setting · academic setting · biotech world · high tech future · recognizable future · posthuman future · global conspiracy

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