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Setting labels used: dystopian future, post-apocalyptic future, totalitarian state, collectivist society, dark age future, pre-industrial future, low-tech world, controlled society, underground hideout
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In a dystopian future, a fugitive young woman races to stop a looming catastrophe while uncovering devastating truths.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-catastrophe · clan society · underground city · catacombs · wilderness · spheres · factional society · future world · speculative future
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Distance: 0.0778
Four linked dystopian companion novels follow different young protagonists across separate communities and hard questions about control, memory, and hope.
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Setting labels: futuristic world · dystopian future · multiple communities · separate societies · same world · low-tech communities · controlled society
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Distance: 0.0821
In a class-rigged dystopia, an unmodified woman becomes a cyborg bride and uncovers power, desire, and revolt.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · underground mines · surface elite · cybernetic society · class-stratified world · cyberpunk · industrial underground · upper world · world below and above
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Distance: 0.0851
A lethal-touch teenager trapped in a collapsing dystopia is pulled into a dangerous choice between compliance, rebellion, and romance.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-catastrophe world · totalitarian regime · apocalyptic world · isolated cell
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Distance: 0.0872
In a computer-run future of drugged conformity, one uneasy man begins to question a perfect world built to erase freedom.
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Setting labels: future Earth · global society · totalitarian future · computer-controlled society · high-tech dystopia · utopian facade · closed society
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Distance: 0.0885
In a future ruled by punctuality, a rebellious trickster wages comic sabotage against a system that punishes lateness.
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Setting labels: future society · dystopian future · clockwork society · regulated society · bureaucratic state · mechanized world
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Distance: 0.0901
An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier
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Distance: 0.0907
Two between-book novellas and a journal collection revisit the Shatter Me story through Warner and Adam’s eyes.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · controlled society · military base · resistance movement · asylum · post-collapse world
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Distance: 0.0920
A faithful graphic retelling of Orwell’s dystopia, following one man’s forbidden awakening under total surveillance.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · London · Oceania · alternate future · war state · controlled society
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Distance: 0.0923
Two siblings are seized by a new regime and discover magical powers that could help them escape and fight back.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian society · prison setting · futuristic world · secret prison · post-takeover society · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.0935
In a dystopian future, a rebel group races to stop an AI apocalypse as new allies, betrayals, and sacrifice reshape everything.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic prison · laboratory · AI-controlled world · post-apocalyptic future · digital world · near-future · oppressive society
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Distance: 0.0936
A body-double twin must survive a war-torn city, find her missing sister, and outmaneuver her tyrannical father.
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Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian city-state · post-rusties world · AI city · rebellion-era society · near-future · walled city · surveillance state · free city · post-apocalyptic future
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Distance: 0.0936
