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Premise labels used: immortality research, AI emotions, posthuman survival, cannibalism pandemic, dystopian futures, late capitalism, technology and society, human-machine relations, environmental collapse

Setting labels used: near future, distant future, post-apocalyptic, posthuman, dystopian, spacefaring, corporate setting, urban apartment building, desolate planet

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Cover of Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki

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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Cover of Accelerando by Charles Stross

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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Cover of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

Kim Cho-yeop · 2026

Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.

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Premise labels: future futures · humanity and technology · first contact · space travel · alien encounter · mind upload · digital afterlife · ethics of technology · women-centered SF · marginalized perspectives

Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future

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Cover of Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

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Cover of Axiomatic by Greg Egan

Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Cover of The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm

Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

qntm, Sam Hughes · 2022

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

Setting labels: near future · far future · digital future · spacefaring future · alternate reality · simulated worlds · outer space · interdimensional space · corporate tech world · online culture · AI-mediated setting · posthuman setting · planetary exploration

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Cover of Starość aksolotla by Jacek Dukaj

Starość aksolotla

Jacek Dukaj · 2015

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

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · post-human future · digital afterlife · robot civilization · near future · post-biological world · collapsed biosphere · networked world · mechanical bodies · speculative future

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Cover of Life Ever After by Carla Grauls

Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: future city · tech city · dystopian future · near future · high-tech society · AI-integrated world · clinic setting · transhuman future

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Cover of The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.

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Premise labels: near future · genetic engineering · global plague · post-collapse survival · corporate power · bioengineered humans · biotech disaster

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world

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Cover of Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Setting labels: distant future · post-apocalyptic · post-extinction · Earth · isolated communities · small tribes · far future · millennial timespan · geological eons · post-catastrophic world

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Cover of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu · 2022

Twelve uncanny stories twist modern life, turning grief, technology, and desire into strange new monsters.

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Premise labels: modern monsters · small-world distortions · human condition · speculative twists · everyday uncanny · tech consequences · memory loss · grief and longing · coming of age · human frailty

Setting labels: modern world · near future · futuristic · contemporary · dystopian future · everyday reality · surreal reality · high-tech future · suburbia · workplace

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Cover of Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Blake Crouch

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

Setting labels: near future · future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · space evacuation · virtual world · casino setting · isolated room

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Cover of Void Star by Zachary Mason

Void Star

Zachary Mason · 2017

In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface

Setting labels: near future · post-climate-change world · flooded world · San Francisco · Los Angeles · global city network · dystopian urban future · high-tech low-life · drowned cities

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Cover of Diaspora by Greg Egan

Diaspora

Greg Egan · 2000

A posthuman software mind joins a galaxy-spanning search after a cosmic disaster threatens the future of intelligence.

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Premise labels: posthuman future · digital consciousness · human diversification · cosmic catastrophe · interstellar search · alien contact · survival quest

Setting labels: far future · posthuman society · solar system · interstellar space · multiverse · virtual reality · digital civilization · post-Earth

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Distance: 0.1442

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Cover of All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen

All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

C.M. Kosemen · 2008

An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future history · human evolution · alien conquest · genetic modification · posthuman future · space colonization · terraforming · speculative biology · cosmic punishment

Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality

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Cover of Transhumanism Inc. by Victor Pelevin

Transhumanism Inc.

Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин · 2021 · Tranhumanism Inc.

In a far-future world of brain jars, chips, and class control, linked stories probe power, love, and what remains human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future wealth gap · brain-in-a-jar · immortality · elite afterlife · posthuman society · technological class divide · controlled access

Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-carbon world · virtual reality · banked-brain society · dystopian future · posthuman world

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Distance: 0.1451

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Cover of The Toll by Neal Shusterman

The Toll

Neal Shusterman · 2019 · Arc of a Scythe

In a post-mortality world, shifting alliances and power grabs converge as the final battle for humanity's future unfolds.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-mortality society · population control · immortal world · power struggle · AI governance · religious movement · rebellion

Setting labels: futuristic world · dystopian society · global scale · post-mortal age · AI-mediated world · space travel · colonized regions · island setting · religious setting

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Cover of Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts

Beyond the Rift

Peter Watts · 2013 · Rifters

A hard-SF short story collection where alien POVs, AI, faith, and bleak futures probe what makes us human.

Why this is here

Premise labels: first contact · alien perspective · artificial intelligence · near future · dystopian futures · human-machine boundary · religion and technology · deep sea · space travel · biological enhancement · reality manipulation · moral judgment

Setting labels: outer space · Antarctica · deep sea · undersea habitat · near future · dystopian future · alternate reality · religious future · spacefaring civilization · Dyson sphere · post-human future

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Cover of Hujan by Tere Liye

Hujan

Tere Liye · 2016

In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · post-disaster survival · star-crossed lovers · friendship bond · environmental collapse · future technology · lost memories

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath

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Distance: 0.1467

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Cover of Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Joshua Whitehead · 2019

An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic future · queer Indigenous futures · Two-Spirit protagonists · utopian dystopia · survival after collapse · decolonized SFF

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · utopian · near-future · future worlds · spacefaring · virtual reality · alternative reality · Earth-bound · off-world

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Cover of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

Why this is here

Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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Distance: 0.1477

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Cover of Echopraxia by Peter Watts

Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 2014 · Firefall

A baseline biologist is pulled into a posthuman pilgrimage toward the sun, where faith, free will, and alien contact collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: posthumanism · first contact · space journey · baseline human · alien signal · religion and science · free will · consciousness · hive mind · genetic engineering

Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · 22nd century · Earth · Oregon desert · deep space · Solar System · spaceship · monastery · dystopian future · posthuman future

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Cover of Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler · 1995

A Hugo-winning short story collection where Octavia Butler explores alien coexistence, illness, language loss, and the costs of survival.

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Premise labels: alien contact · symbiotic coexistence · genetic disease · post-apocalyptic survival · communication breakdown · thought experiment · moral dilemma · duty versus freedom

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · alien planet · human colony · Earth

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Distance: 0.1496

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