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Setting labels used: near future, post-climate collapse, virtual reality, dystopian future, capsule life, uninhabitable Earth, computer-simulated worlds, digital worldscape, alternative realities, futuristic society
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A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0639
In a far-future world of brain jars, chips, and class control, linked stories probe power, love, and what remains human.
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Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-carbon world · virtual reality · banked-brain society · dystopian future · posthuman world
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Distance: 0.0737
An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · utopian · near-future · future worlds · spacefaring · virtual reality · alternative reality · Earth-bound · off-world
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Distance: 0.0739
In a near-future VR dystopia, two students/soldiers on separate missions uncover a conspiracy that could collapse both worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · virtual reality · real world · cyberpunk city · academy setting · militarized society · corporate state · climate-ravaged world
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Distance: 0.0811
In a future of timed lives and shared bodies, a commune must solve a murder that may be inside them.
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Setting labels: near-future Earth · dystopian future · overpopulated world · resource-scarce society · death park · virtual reality games · shared-body commune
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Distance: 0.0869
In a vast virtual-reality network, scattered allies race to uncover its secrets, survive it, and stop its deadly design.
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Setting labels: virtual reality world · near future · online world · parallel world · simulation worlds · real world · networked society · dystopian future · cyberspace · otherworldly landscapes
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Distance: 0.0879
A themed short-story collection of AI, alien, fantasy, and Silo-related tales, each paired with author notes.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian futures · alien worlds · Earth · virtual worlds · simulation worlds · Silo universe
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Distance: 0.0880
A near-future mind-uploading experiment spirals into a vast inquiry into reality, identity, immortality, and simulated life.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · virtual world · computer simulation · cyberspace · globalized future · post-overdevelopment Earth · distributed computing environment · mathematical universe · computed reality
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Distance: 0.0890
A teen gamer in a grim future races through a virtual reality treasure hunt built on 1980s pop culture clues.
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Setting labels: 2044 · near future · dystopian future · virtual reality world · shared virtual environment · online game world · real world vs virtual world · post-collapse society
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Distance: 0.0908
A posthuman first-contact mission heads into the outer solar system to confront an alien intelligence—and rethink consciousness.
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Setting labels: near future · solar system · outer solar system · spacecraft · virtual reality · posthuman future · dystopian future · interstellar space
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Distance: 0.0923
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
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Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
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Distance: 0.0925
A compact collection of experimental SF stories probing AI, uploads, simulation, and technological dread.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · digital future · spacefaring future · alternate reality · simulated worlds · outer space · interdimensional space · corporate tech world · online culture · AI-mediated setting · posthuman setting · planetary exploration
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0981
