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Premise labels used: brain implant, controlled media, consumer culture, teen dystopia, targeted advertising, social manipulation, internet dependency, identity crisis

Setting labels used: future, moon, domed city, planetary travel, corporate society, environmental collapse, brain-networked world, dystopian future

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The Feed

Nick Clark Windo · 2018

When a brain-linked social network collapses, two survivors must find their missing daughter in a world gone offline.

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Premise labels: social media dystopia · brain implant · information dependence · technology collapse · offline survival · missing child · mind invasion · identity uncertainty

Setting labels: near future · post-collapse world · technology-saturated society · isolated survivor camp · ravaged landscape · lawless world · no-technology environment · future Earth

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Distance: 0.1335

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The Space Merchants

Frederik Pohl, C.M. Kornbluth · 2003 · The Space Merchants

A star copywriter is tasked with selling colonization of Venus in a future ruled by corporations and ad-driven consumerism.

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Premise labels: advertising dystopia · corporate rule · consumer culture · Venus colonization · ecological collapse · class society · identity theft · undercover demotion · addictive products · conservationist resistance

Setting labels: 22nd century · near future · Earth · Venus · overpopulated world · polluted future · corporate state · urban future · resource scarcity · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1485

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Uglies

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.

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Premise labels: beauty standards · body transformation · teen dystopia · brainwashing · government control · conformity · social engineering · rebellion

Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future

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Distance: 0.1588

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Synners

Pat Cadigan · 1991

A sprawling cyberpunk ensemble in near-future Los Angeles, where brain-linked media tech and corporate greed push reality to the brink.

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Premise labels: brain-computer interface · virtual reality · hacker culture · media industry · tech dependency · network collapse · human-machine merge · information overload · corporate control · sentient AI

Setting labels: near future · future Los Angeles · corporate dystopia · networked society · virtual world · media-saturated world · urban future

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Distance: 0.1636

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Oval

Elvia Wilk · 2019

In near-future Berlin, a couple’s fragile life in an eco-community collides with a corporation’s generosity drug and failing ideals.

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Premise labels: near-future dystopia · corporate greenwashing · housing crisis · generosity drug · relationship strain · eco-community

Setting labels: near-future Berlin · urban dystopia · corporate city · eco-community · surveillance state · climate-disrupted world

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Distance: 0.1681

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki · 2021

Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic society · gender politics · population control · screen addiction · alienation · technological mediation · interplanetary politics · human drift · social collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future

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Distance: 0.1716

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Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Premise labels: surveillance · escape · identity crisis · body alteration · bizarre future · persecuted protagonist · artificial reality

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · artificial weather · artificial suns · artificial moons · surveilled society · urban decay · country journey · post-industrial

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Distance: 0.1722

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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Premise labels: brain implant · augmented reality · social media · surveillance state · government overreach · technology ethics · memory access · dream control · future crimes · forced adoption

Setting labels: near-future London · future Britain · dystopian future · technology-driven society · virtual reality layer · augmented reality · off-grid island · wilderness encampment · state care

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Distance: 0.1750

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Accelerando

Charles Stross · 2005

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

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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

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Distance: 0.1756

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Distance: 0.1769

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I.D.

Emma Ríos · 2016

In a red-tinted dystopian future, three strangers consider a risky body transplant that could change who they are.

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Premise labels: body transplant · brain transplant · identity crisis · body dysphoria · experimental surgery · future medicine · medical speculation · ethical dilemma · self-transformation · question of self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · Mars · part-terraformed Mars · advanced technology · riot-plagued society · scientific future · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1804

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The Girl Who Was Plugged In

James Tiptree Jr. · 1973

A suicidal teen gets a beautiful proxy body in a future where corporations sell products through fake celebrities.

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Premise labels: anti-capitalist future · advertising ban · product placement · celebrity branding · remote-body control · body swap · synthetic body · social influence

Setting labels: near future · corporate dystopia · advertising-controlled society · media-saturated world · technological future

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Distance: 0.1806

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