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Premise labels used: AI job loss, surveillance state, face-alteration experiment, technology dependence, family survival, nature refuge, parental protection, consumerism critique, climate collapse

Setting labels used: near future, climate-damaged city, surveillance society, high-tech everyday life, luxury nature reserve, botanical garden, dying planet, post-green urban future, speculative near future

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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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Distance: 0.1688

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This Fragile Earth

Susannah Wise · 2021

In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.

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Premise labels: tech collapse · system failure · family survival · mother and child · escape city · apocalypse survival · protect child · societal breakdown · near-future crisis · technology dependence · environmental collapse · survival journey

Setting labels: near future · London · British countryside · recognisable future · post collapse society · automated world · climate affected · tech dependent society · low-visibility threat · rural refuge · fragile civilization

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Distance: 0.1768

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Arborescence

Rhett Davis · 2026

In a near-future world, a couple is divided by a spreading movement of people trying to become trees.

Why this is here

Premise labels: people turning into trees · eco-collapse · AI saturation · climate crisis · identity crisis · purpose seeking · relationship drift · humanity redefinition · saving the planet · post-human transformation

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · Australia · decaying cities · greener world · forest community · urban ecology · globalized world · technologically advanced society · off-grid camps

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Distance: 0.1799

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The Feed

Nick Clark Windo · 2018

When a brain-linked social network collapses, two survivors must find their missing daughter in a world gone offline.

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Premise labels: social media dystopia · brain implant · information dependence · technology collapse · offline survival · missing child · mind invasion · identity uncertainty

Setting labels: near future · post-collapse world · technology-saturated society · isolated survivor camp · ravaged landscape · lawless world · no-technology environment · future Earth

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Distance: 0.1806

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Kings of a Dead World

Jamie Mollart · 2021

In a climate-ravaged near future, a society survives by sleeping most of the year, until its hidden order starts to crack.

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Premise labels: resource scarcity · climate collapse · enforced hibernation · population control · survival regime · hidden conspiracy · social collapse · class divide · revolutionary resistance

Setting labels: near future · futuristic Earth · futuristic Britain · climate-ravaged world · flooded coastlines · arid landscape · hibernating city · post-collapse society · surveillance state · controlled district

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Distance: 0.1827

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1870

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Children of the New World

Alexander Weinstein · 2016

A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.

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Premise labels: near future · technology dependence · virtual reality · manufactured memories · robot companions · climate collapse · social media implants · AI disruption · post-collapse survival

Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society

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Distance: 0.1890

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Rise of the Red Hand

Olivia Chadha · 2021 · The Mechanists

In a climate-ravaged South Asian future, a slum smuggler and a privileged hacker uncover a deadly conspiracy.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · class conflict · technocratic rule · underground resistance · cyborg survival · hacker ally · genetic stratification · resource scarcity · AI governance

Setting labels: South Asia · post-apocalyptic · post-war · post-climate-change · post-nuclear · dystopian future · biodome city · slums · cyberpunk future · algorithmic surveillance

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Distance: 0.1922

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Yours for the Taking

Gabrielle Korn · 2023

In 2050, three women become entangled in a climate-proof city where a billionaire’s feminist utopia hides darker control.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · survival project · female separatism · corporate feminism · billionaire control · city enclave · selective refuge · queer love under pressure · utopian experiment · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: near future · 2050 · Brooklyn · Manhattan · weather-damaged world · sealed city · domed enclave · urban dystopia · global climate crisis · space-bound elite

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Distance: 0.1940

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Children of Eden

Joey Graceffa, Laura L. Sullivan · 2016 · Children of Eden

In a controlled post-apocalyptic city, an illegal second-born girl escapes hiding and gets pulled into rebellion and secrets.

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Premise labels: illegal child · one-child policy · hidden identity · survival · rebellion against system · post-collapse world · sealed city · artificial environment · resource scarcity · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · artificial city · controlled society · future world · inside/outside divide · futuristic dystopia · urban circles

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Distance: 0.1957

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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: 0.1958

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Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft

Fiona Sironic · 2025

In a near-future climate collapse, two teenage girls bond over loss, privacy, and rebellion against a digitized world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate collapse · species extinction · social media backlash · digital erasure · queer first love · youth rebellion · environmental breakdown · privacy conflict · memory vs forgetting · female anger

Setting labels: near future · climate-ravaged world · burning forests · uninhabitable cities · digital age · post-digital world · woodland edge · school setting · archive culture · collapse setting

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Distance: 0.1972

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