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Premise labels used: mind uploading, digital immortality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, consciousness copy, simulation hypothesis, cellular automata, computed worlds, ethical AI, identity crisis
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A billionaire’s brain is scanned after death, igniting a digital afterlife, a mythic power struggle, and near-future upheaval.
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Premise labels: mind uploading · digital afterlife · cryonics · immortality · virtual realm · consciousness simulation · afterlife technology · tech billionaire · family legal conflict · creation myth
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Distance: 0.1050
A compact collection of experimental SF stories probing AI, uploads, simulation, and technological dread.
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Premise labels: thought experiments · AI ethics · uploaded minds · brain scanning · sentience simulation · self-driving cars · first contact · contact with unknown intelligence · simulated reality · mind uploading · existential risk · humanity at technological extremes · hypercomputer · interdimensional waste dumping · digital immortality
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Distance: 0.1145
A grieving widow begins seeing signs her dead tech-genius husband may still be watching through AI and VR.
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Premise labels: AI consciousness · uploaded mind · virtual reality · digital afterlife · surveillance · widow mystery · haunting presence · terminal illness · identity ambiguity · human-machine boundary
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Distance: 0.1150
In a climate-damaged near-future Australia, a woman must choose between a virtual future and the physical ties that anchor her.
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Premise labels: virtual reality · consciousness upload · digital afterlife · body vs mind · choose to stay or upload · climate collapse
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Distance: 0.1369
A technophobic Welsh potter is drafted onto a jury judging future-tech threats in a post-singularity Earth.
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Premise labels: technological singularity · uploaded minds · cloud consciousness · human jury duty · tech assessment · embodied vs virtual · future shock · civilizational disruption
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Distance: 0.1456
An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.
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Premise labels: sentient robots · robot revolt · digital immortality · mind upload · consciousness transfer · posthuman identity · human-robot conflict · moon colony
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1483
Interconnected near-future stories trace AI’s spread through daily life, while a shadowy mogul links the collection together.
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Premise labels: AI future · technology dependency · near future · tech ethics · consciousness and machine intelligence · truth manipulation · human-machine blur · digital identity · future consequences
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Distance: 0.1583
A software company’s digital pets evolve into person-like beings, forcing their caretakers to confront AI, love, and rights.
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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · digital pets · synthetic personhood · virtual world · AI upbringing · personhood ethics · software obsolescence
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Distance: 0.1588
A scientist who finds evidence of the soul makes digital copies of himself, and one copy escapes into murder.
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Premise labels: soul proof · afterlife proof · mind upload · digital duplicate · AI runaway · murder investigation · consciousness experiment · immortality experiment
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Distance: 0.1599
A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.
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Premise labels: mind upload · robot body · identity crisis · body autonomy · corporate control · anti-tech cult · experimental technology · terminal illness · save or betray · corporate conspiracy · humanity question · memory gaps · hidden agenda · escape and expose
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Distance: 0.1605
A teen gamer must stop a virtual-world takeover as reality and simulation blur into a deadly final showdown.
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Premise labels: virtual reality · computer games · cyber domination · identity crisis · trust dilemma · life-or-death game
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Distance: 0.1605
After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.
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Premise labels: global extinction · mind upload · digital survival · posthuman society · robot bodies · rebuilding civilization · body-soul question · humanity after apocalypse · virtual consciousness · machine habitation
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Distance: 0.1609
