Exploring from

Made in Korea

Jeremy Holt

Find similar books by

Combine common axes

Similar in premise + setting

These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Made in Korea. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

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

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

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.

Exclude same author Exclude same listed series

Max ratings No limit

Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Setting labels: future dystopia · overpopulated world · futuristic society · technological society · fake garden · corporate future · earthbound future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1378

Continue from here

The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: android tutor · forbidden love · coming of age · robot rights · artificial intelligence · human-machine relationship · isolated childhood · first love · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · post-disaster · dystopian future · alternate future · climate-changed world · small-town America · isolated house · moon base · robots in daily life

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1517

Continue from here

Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1574

Continue from here

vN

Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · Pacific Northwest · Seattle · human and robot society · mixed organic/synthetic family · futuristic road trip · post-Rapture world · synthetic underclass

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1652

Continue from here

Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1669

Continue from here

Willful Machines

Tim Floreen · 2015

A closeted president’s son is caught between a rogue AI attack and a new boy at school who may not be human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: artificial human · rogue AI · internet threat · closeted protagonist · president's son · queer romance · robots · sentient machines · humanity question · free will

Setting labels: near future · futuristic America · boarding school · elite prep school · presidential household · high surveillance · internet-connected world · dystopian future · alternative future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1674

Continue from here

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

Why this is here

Premise labels: artificial friend · robot companion · near future · genetic enhancement · lonely child · humanity question · what is love · what makes a person · class inequality · distant narrator

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · domestic setting · storefront · wealthy household · home schooling · unequal society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1681

Continue from here

Hard Boiled

Frank Miller · 1993 · Hard Boiled

A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dystopian future · corporate domination · robot rebellion · identity crisis · dual identity · insurance investigator · tax collector · robot assassin · self-aware robot · subjugated machines · corporate assassin · hidden true self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1784

Continue from here

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.

Why this is here

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1833

Continue from here

The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

Why this is here

Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Setting labels: future Earth · twenty-first century · far future · robotic society · outer space · Moon · colonies · near-future extrapolation · technological future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1836

Continue from here

Void Star

Zachary Mason · 2017

In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.

Why this is here

Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface

Setting labels: near future · post-climate-change world · flooded world · San Francisco · Los Angeles · global city network · dystopian urban future · high-tech low-life · drowned cities

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1854

Continue from here

Accelerando

Charles Stross · 2005

Three generations of one family navigate an accelerating posthuman future as AI, nanotech, and the Singularity reshape humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: technological singularity · posthuman future · AI takeover · mind uploading · solar system scale · family saga · venture altruism · post-scarcity economy · humanity under pressure · alien contact · distributed intelligence · runaway innovation

Setting labels: near future · post-singularity · solar system · outer system · Saturn · Jupiter moon · Earth · virtual worlds · cyberspace · posthuman civilization · spacefaring future · ultra-capitalist future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1861

Continue from here