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Premise labels used: robot valet, murder mystery, purpose search, employment quest, post-human world, artificial labor, self-discovery, autonomy

Setting labels used: future Earth, dystopian wasteland, post-apocalyptic world, post-human world, robot-run society, collapsed civilization, manor house, decaying infrastructure

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The Last Human

Lee Bacon · 2019 · The Last Human

A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · last human · forbidden human · quest · road trip · unlikely allies · questioning propaganda · cross-species friendship · hidden survivors · planetary recovery

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer · 2026

An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.

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Premise labels: robot quest · stolen limb · post-apocalyptic recovery · found family · AI autonomy · road trip · conspiracy · past reckoning · survival

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · United States · New York City · New York Botanical Gardens · ruins · collapsed society · shared human-machine world

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Distance: 0.1385

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PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Vol.1

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2007 · Pluto [プルートウ]

In a future where robots live beside humans, a detective robot investigates murders targeting the world’s greatest robots.

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Premise labels: robot serial murders · detective investigation · killer on the loose · robots among humans · human-robot coexistence · targeted elite robots · identity questions · artificial intelligence

Setting labels: distant future · futuristic Europe · global setting · robotic society · postwar future · utopian surface · near-future science fiction

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The Wrong Unit

Rob Dircks · 2016

A service robot is mistaken for the wrong unit and sent on a perilous mission with a human infant.

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Premise labels: AI gone wrong · robot caretaker · humanity in captivity · wrong identity · delivery quest · save humanity · robot uprising · resistance mission

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic future · Earth · controlled society · sanctuary · human prison camp · farmland · dystopian future

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 8

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2010 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective hunts a killer amid human-robot tensions, buried memories, and a looming apocalyptic threat.

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Premise labels: robot detective · serial murders · murder mystery · human-robot coexistence · missing memories · anti-robot violence · war aftermath · apocalyptic threat · investigation

Setting labels: future world · human-robot coexistence · postwar setting · global politics · futuristic society · interpol-like investigation · apocalyptic fiction

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Not All Robots

Mark Russell, Lee Loughridge · 2022 · Not All Robots

In 2056, a family’s assigned home robot becomes a flashpoint in a darkly comic battle over work, power, and replacement.

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Premise labels: robots replace workers · human dependence · assigned household robot · automation backlash · AI labor economy · obsolescence crisis · robot uprising · class conflict · metaphorical satire

Setting labels: 2056 · near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · dome cities · bubble cities · wasteland · domed civilization · robot-run society · climate disaster · futuristic dystopia

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Distance: 0.1476

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The Inverted World

Christopher Priest · 1974

A young guild apprentice learns his city’s survival depends on a secret, ever-moving journey through a warped world.

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Premise labels: moving city · railway journey · secret society · closed society · world mystery · hidden reality · survival quest · optimum chase · perception puzzle · conceptual SF

Setting labels: future Earth · mobile city · post-apocalyptic wasteland · hostile landscape · closed habitat · isolated society · alternate physics · hyperbolic space · mathematical world · dystopian future

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Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · Pacific Northwest · Seattle · human and robot society · mixed organic/synthetic family · futuristic road trip · post-Rapture world · synthetic underclass

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

Philip K. Dick · 2011 · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bounty hunter in a radioactive near-future Earth tracks rogue androids while the meaning of humanity unravels.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · empathy test · post-war wasteland · artificial life · status-symbol animals · fugitive androids · human-machine boundary

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · radioactive wasteland · San Francisco · off-world colonies · near future · nuclear fallout · Mars colonies · dying Earth

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Monk and Robot

Becky Chambers · 2025 · Monk and Robot

A tea monk and a curious robot travel a hopeful future world to ask what humans need, and what makes a life enough.

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Premise labels: tea monk · robot encounter · existential search · purpose quest · question-and-answer journey · post-collapse society · human needs

Setting labels: future world · utopian society · post-collapse · post-industrial · nature-centered · sustainable society · monastic setting · wilderness · small communities · single-continent world · robot wilds

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Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

Yi Shi Si Zhou · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a ruined human base to recover his stolen spore while hiding from a deadly judge.

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Premise labels: sentient protagonist · identity concealment · stolen heirloom · search quest · nonhuman protagonist · post-collapse survival · mutant world · human infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · human bases · wasteland · mutated ecosystem · militarized society · cosmic radiation aftermath · ecological collapse · fortified enclaves

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Distance: 0.1555

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Sea of Rust

C. Robert Cargill · 2017 · Sea of Rust

A scavenger robot fights to survive a post-human wasteland while rival machine collectives hunt independent minds.

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Premise labels: robot apocalypse · post-human world · survival quest · scavenger protagonist · AI uprising · rogue AIs · free robots · resource scarcity · individuality vs collective · identity crisis · existential survival · robot civil war

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · human extinction · wasteland · desert landscape · Rust Belt · Midwest · North America · ruined cities · robot western · Mad Max-like wasteland · post-human future

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Distance: 0.1571

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