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Premise labels used: dystopian oppression, pandemic trauma, racial trauma, Black girl protagonist, biological exploitation, identity formation, storytelling as coping

Setting labels used: future America, post-pandemic, Washington DC area, confinement setting, small room, segregated society, alternate reality, contemporary United States

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The World Wasn't Ready for You

Justin C. Key · 2023

A debut short-story collection fusing horror, sci-fi, and fantasy to confront race, class, prejudice, and identity.

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Premise labels: Black experience · social horror · speculative social commentary · technological dystopia · racism · class conflict · prejudice · identity crisis · body horror · alternative realities

Setting labels: near future · alternate timeline · historical past · pandemic era · prison system · plantation setting · hospital setting · dystopian society

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Distance: 0.1679

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Child Zero

Chris Holm · 2022

In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.

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Premise labels: antibiotic resistance · bioterrorism · pandemic collapse · medical crisis · missing child · quarantine zone · manhunt · government overreach · scientific plausibility · public health crisis

Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape

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Distance: 0.1976

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · disability technology · mind-body split · robot bodies · virtual society · murder investigation · federal investigation · identity crisis · post-plague society

Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting

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Distance: 0.1978

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Book of the Dead: AESLI-00

V.E.S. Pullen · 2020 · The JAK2 Cycle

A sick teen in a post-pandemic military town uncovers a dangerous secret as several mysterious boys orbit her life.

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Premise labels: post-pandemic world · quarantine community · hidden conspiracy · chronically ill heroine · multiple suitors · secretive base · government control · mystery illness

Setting labels: post-pandemic future · military base · small-town facade · quarantine zone · high school setting · medical setting · controlled community · United States

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Distance: 0.2015

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality

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Distance: 0.2017

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The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2017

A pregnant nurse infected by a combustible plague fights to survive a collapsing world with help from a mysterious Fireman.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · spontaneous combustion · infected survivors · plague survival · post-collapse community · protective outsider · pregnant protagonist · mysterious guardian · contagious disease

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New Hampshire · New England · hospital setting · camp setting · collapsed civilization · small town · post-pandemic world

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Distance: 0.2021

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due · 2023

A layered horror and speculative fiction collection where Black-centered stories weave dread, hope, and social terror across time.

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Premise labels: wishing magic · haunted places · racial horror · Black-centered horror · pandemic survival · future shock · human monsters · supernatural dread · social horror · interconnected stories

Setting labels: Florida · Gracetown · South Central L.A. · Black bookstore · resort lodge · swamp · cabin · post-pandemic world · post-apocalyptic future · far future · pandemic world · historical past · present day · alternate future · Supernatural reality

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Distance: 0.2033

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We Hear Voices

Evie Green · 2020

In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.

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Premise labels: mysterious pandemic · imaginary friend · children hearing voices · violent influence · family under strain · post-illness aftermath · secret research facility · space program · dystopian collapse · near-future crisis

Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living

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Distance: 0.2034

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فتاة الياقة الزرقاء

عمرو عبدالحميد · 2021

In a future ruled by fertility control, one family tries to protect a rare blue-cell daughter from the state.

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Premise labels: pandemic future · fertility control · state control · reproductive dystopia · blue-cell girl · family rescue · survival crisis · controlled reproduction

Setting labels: future Egypt · post-pandemic future · dystopian future · state-regulated society · reproductive regime · city setting · rural setting · insufficient future worldbuilding

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Distance: 0.2045

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The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter · 1992

A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.

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Premise labels: forced transformation · gender reversal · identity crisis · apocalyptic America · body politics · feminist dystopia · sexual politics · journey westward

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2066

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Walking in Two Worlds

Wab Kinew · 2021 · Walking in Two Worlds

An Indigenous teen gamer navigates a near-future virtual world, real-life pressures, and a risky friendship that could change both.

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Premise labels: dual worlds · virtual reality · gamer protagonist · outsider connection · identity conflict · cultural preservation · post-pandemic future · online radicalization

Setting labels: near future · post-pandemic future · reservation setting · Canada · virtual world · augmented reality · massively multiplayer game · real world/online world contrast · fictional digital world

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Distance: 0.2102

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The Key to Fear

Kristin Cast · 2020 · The Key

In a post-pandemic future where touch is outlawed, a rule-following nurse and a rebel uncover dangerous secrets.

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Premise labels: touch taboo · post-pandemic society · controlling corporation · forbidden intimacy · rule breaking · resistance · conspiracy

Setting labels: post-pandemic future · alternate world · dystopian society · technologically advanced society · sterile environment · virtual reality · care facility · lab conception · controlled city

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Distance: 0.2104

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