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Premise labels used: neural interface, animal consciousness, wolf perspective, interspecies empathy, research ethics, conservation science, workplace obsession, failing marriage

Setting labels used: near future, winter setting, climate-affected world, corporate-dominated world, academic setting, wild landscape

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · overpopulated world · wildlife extinction · chimp reserve · hospital · school · urban civilization · conservation setting

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Distance: 0.1904

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse

Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet

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Distance: 0.2091

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The Wild Robot on the Island

Peter Brown · 2025

A robot washes up on an island, learns from the animals, and builds a home and family in a picture-book retelling.

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Premise labels: robot outsider · island survival · animal learning · adaptation · belonging · found family · caregiver role · orphans · nature-tech contrast

Setting labels: island setting · wilderness · natural world · animals in community · technological outsider · seasonal setting · real-world adjacent

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Distance: 0.2122

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2143

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The Mountain in the Sea

Ray Nayler · 2022

A marine biologist joins a corporate team to study intelligent octopuses, while AI and hackers reshape a near-future world.

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Premise labels: first contact · nonhuman intelligence · octopus intelligence · language discovery · consciousness study · corporate competition · control of discovery · AI-assisted research · future resource scarcity · interspecies communication

Setting labels: near future · Earth · marine setting · archipelago · Vietnam · Southeast Asia · protected island · oceanic world · post-national future · corporate-controlled territory · underwater research

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Distance: 0.2145

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Crux

Ramez Naam · 2013 · Nexus

A near-future techno-thriller where a mind-network drug spreads worldwide, igniting war, control, and posthuman upheaval.

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Premise labels: mind network · brain augmentation · posthuman conflict · technology misuse · backdoor control · state vs dissidents · human-machine interface · weaponized connectivity

Setting labels: near future · global · United States · Washington DC · Thailand · Vietnam · Shanghai · Southeast Asia · cybernetic reality · posthuman future

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Distance: 0.2221

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Usurpation

Sue Burke · 2024 · Semiosis

Sentient bamboo on future Earth must stay hidden, then help humans survive war, robots, and a deadly plague.

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Premise labels: sentient plants · secret intelligence · first contact · post-apocalyptic Earth · human-plant coexistence · alien ecology

Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · global scale · Bayonne, France · Nigeria · Siberia · Spain · France

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Distance: 0.2222

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The Human Son

Adrian J. Walker · 2020

A nonhuman scientist raises the first human child in centuries to determine whether humanity deserves a second chance.

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

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

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Distance: 0.2234

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Becky Chambers · 2021 · Monk and Robot

A tea monk’s quiet life is disrupted when a long-absent robot arrives asking what people need.

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Premise labels: tea monk · robot encounter · existential crisis · purpose of life · post-robot society · quiet quest · unexpected friendship · search for meaning

Setting labels: near-future world · post-industrial society · wilderness · rural villages · monastery · tea wagon · utopian setting · ecological future · single-continent world

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Distance: 0.2238

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape

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Distance: 0.2238

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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: 0.2250

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Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 2014 · Firefall

A baseline biologist is pulled into a posthuman pilgrimage toward the sun, where faith, free will, and alien contact collide.

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Premise labels: posthumanism · first contact · space journey · baseline human · alien signal · religion and science · free will · consciousness · hive mind · genetic engineering

Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · 22nd century · Earth · Oregon desert · deep space · Solar System · spaceship · monastery · dystopian future · posthuman future

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Distance: 0.2253

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