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Premise labels used: clone assassination, celebrity clones, identity crisis, selfhood, free will, existential dilemma, publicity stunt, near-future technology

Setting labels used: near future, Bubble City, cyberpunk city, futuristic city, celebrity culture, glitzy urban setting, high society, lavish urban decay

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Strange New World

Rachel Vincent · 2018 · Brave New Girl

Two genetically identical girls from opposite worlds uncover a cloning conspiracy and fight to expose the truth.

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Premise labels: clone identity · mistaken identity · clone rights · runaway clones · media celebrity · genetic sisterhood · social control · exposed lies · uprising

Setting labels: future society · dystopian city · clone farm · walled city · elite society · wealth divide · social media society · reality TV world · futuristic landscape

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Distance: 0.1686

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The Original

Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal · 2020

A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.

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Premise labels: clone hunt · identity crisis · self versus self · memory loss · murder investigation · government surveillance · immortality cost · replica mission · truth seeking · forced replacement

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society

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Distance: 0.1739

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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: 0.1777

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Constance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2021 · Constance

A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.

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Premise labels: human cloning · memory upload · identity crisis · own murder · clone investigation · immortality tech · rich-only access · personhood dispute · clone rights · conspiracy

Setting labels: near future · future America · clone clinic · corporate lab · politically divided · legal patchwork · realistic future · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1808

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Chance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2023 · Constance

A wealthy young clone wakes accused of murder and races to uncover the truth about his memory gaps and family trauma.

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Premise labels: human cloning · memory loss · murder accusation · self-investigation · wealth inequality · daredevil stunts · rich clone

Setting labels: near future · Los Angeles · southern California · Salton Sea · dystopian future · climate-altered future

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Distance: 0.1868

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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.

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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

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Distance: 0.1895

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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Premise labels: human cloning · identity crisis · ethical dilemma · on the run · mistaken identity · search for a cure · outsider status · escape from institution

Setting labels: futuristic world · not-too-distant future · laboratory setting · institution setting · outside the institute · road trip · suburban domestic setting · trailer park · contemporary world

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The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey · 2021

A cloning scientist finds her husband has replaced her with a better, obedient copy—then the dead body forces both wives to cooperate.

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Premise labels: human cloning · cloned spouse · identity swap · marital betrayal · ethical dilemma · body double · pregnant clone · cover-up

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · future earth · cloning lab · domestic spaces · male-dominated field · scientific workplace

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Distance: 0.1979

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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Premise labels: immortality · cloning · aging crisis · cult involvement · future humanity · human extinction · posthuman life · love and death · youth obsession · social critique

Setting labels: near future · far future · post-apocalyptic world · France · Paris · Spain · Lanzarote · Almeria · dystopian society · cloned society · deserted landscape

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Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy

Matt Ruff · 2004

In a satirical 2023 New York, a sewer-dwelling investigator is pulled into a bizarre conspiracy of robots, sharks, and power.

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Premise labels: near-future conspiracy · satirical dystopia · corporate power · environmental collapse · capitalism critique · racism critique · investigative mystery · android revolution · eco-terrorism · absurdist premise

Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · 2023 · near future · dystopian future · urban underworld · sewers · public works infrastructure · alternate reality · corporate metropolis

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The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Shallee McArthur · 2014

A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.

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Premise labels: memory theft · stored memories · genetically enhanced humans · social divide · thief hunt · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · future society · city setting · closed community · urban dystopia · futuristic technology · science fiction world · class divide

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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: 0.2119

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