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Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

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Tone labels used: satirical, darkly comic, quirky, heartbreaking, thought-provoking, witty, noir-esque, melancholic, unsettling

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

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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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Tone labels: humorous · wry · dry · noir · light · optimistic · playful · suspenseful · irreverent · thoughtful · quirky · messy (mixed)

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

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Distance: 0.1832

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Immortality, Inc.

Robert Sheckley · 1963 · Hob Draconian

A 1958 man wakes in 2110 and must navigate a future where death, afterlife, and bodies are all commercialized.

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Tone labels: humorous · darkly humorous · wry · satirical · absurdist · thought-provoking · lighthearted · cynical · quirky · dark

Premise labels: time displacement · mind transfer · body swapping · afterlife technology · scientific afterlife · corporate immortality · fish out of water · future society · publicity stunt · identity crisis

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Distance: 0.1855

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Half Life

Shelley Jackson · 2006

A conjoined twin in a post-nuclear alternate America seeks separation, only to confront a destabilizing mystery about her past.

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Tone labels: darkly comic · satirical · grotesque · disturbing · surreal · dreamlike · intense · weird · funny · unsettling

Premise labels: conjoined twins · shared body · identity crisis · body autonomy · surgical separation · alternate society · minority allegory · unreliable reality · mystery quest

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Distance: 0.2008

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When the Sparrow Falls

Neil Sharpson · 2021

A low-profile state agent in an AI-free dictatorship is pulled into a murder inquiry that threatens his country and his past.

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Tone labels: dark · bleak · wry · darkly funny · frightening · touching · haunting · thought-provoking · melancholic · hopeful

Premise labels: AI dystopia · humanity holdout · state security · consciousness upload · identity crisis · political conspiracy · spy mission · state visit · body double

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Distance: 0.2012

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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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Tone labels: mind-bending · thought-provoking · tense · suspenseful · paranoid · twisty · dark · unsettling · fast-paced · intense

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

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Distance: 0.2023

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Counting Heads

David Marusek · 2005 · Counting Heads

In a far-future, AI- and clone-filled society, an assassination sets off a tangled struggle over family, power, and survival.

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Tone labels: bleak · humorous · disturbing · humanistic · gritty · subversive · dazzling · depressing · wry · sly · satirical · atmospheric

Premise labels: future society · life extension · clone society · AI mediation · assassination fallout · head rescue · corporate power · class divide · overpopulation · conspiracy

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Distance: 0.2025

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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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Tone labels: bleak · darkly funny · cynical · misanthropic · depressing · brutal · provocative · philosophical · satirical · sad · melancholic · repulsive

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

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Distance: 0.2037

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Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

Blake Crouch · 2019

Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.

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Tone labels: darkly comic · chilling · unsettling · haunting · melancholy · hopeful · eerie · thought-provoking · smart · satirical

Premise labels: future scenarios · technological change · catastrophic future · post-apocalyptic future · AI · quantum computing · genetic engineering · fertility technology · memory loss · human consciousness

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Distance: 0.2043

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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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Tone labels: darkly humorous · bleak · paranoid · nightmarish · absurd · whimsical · spooky · deadpan · grotesque · haunting · comic

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

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Distance: 0.2059

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2BR02B

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2007

In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.

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Tone labels: dark · satirical · bleak · chilling · witty · melancholic · absurd · thought-provoking · unsettling · cynical

Premise labels: population control · extended lifespan · government regulation · assisted suicide · moral dilemma · birth requirement · one in one out · overpopulation

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Distance: 0.2064

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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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Tone labels: fast-paced · intense · chilling · thought-provoking · immersive · suspenseful · engaging · noir-like · glossy · visceral

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

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Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Tone labels: bleak · dour · nightmarish · melancholic · creepy · eerie · unsettling · intellectual · thought-provoking · dark · mysterious · suspenseful · sad · paralysing dread

Premise labels: identity theft · consciousness transfer · body swap · immortality quest · forgery · metaphysical conspiracy · mad science · authenticity crisis

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.2078

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