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Premise labels used: amnesia mystery, identity quest, far-future society, utopian instability, memory recovery, conspiracy discovery, transhuman future, self-investigation

Setting labels used: solar system, far future, 10,000 years in future, interplanetary society, utopian society, post-singularity, virtual reality, transhuman society, engineered planets, augmented reality

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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: 0.1265

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Zima Blue and Other Stories

Alastair Reynolds · 2006

A linked SF story collection follows journalists, robots, and wanderers through far-future mysteries, art, memory, and identity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: far future · art and identity · memory and self-discovery · quantum oddity · interstellar mystery · posthuman identity · journalist investigation

Setting labels: far future · deep space · Mars · alternate realities · multiverse · Earth-bound stories · post-apocalyptic world · interstellar civilization · many-worlds · quantum future · spacefaring humanity

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Distance: 0.1363

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The Werewolf Principle

Clifford D. Simak · 1994

An amnesiac space traveler returns to a strange future Earth and discovers his body hides multiple minds and a buried secret.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · body-sharing · multiple minds · identity mystery · alien contact · bioengineering · shapeshifting · future Earth · space return · humanity question

Setting labels: future Earth · deep space · alien planet · interstellar future · flying houses · smart home · post-hibernation future · space-age society

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Distance: 0.1413

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The Causal Angel

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2014 · Jean le Flambeur

A posthuman master thief races through the Solar System to save allies and stop a reality-shaping war.

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Premise labels: master thief · post-singularity society · memory theft · identity fragmentation · solar system conflict · reality manipulation · heist caper · rescue mission · posthuman war

Setting labels: far future · solar system · inner planets · moons · spaceways · cyberspace · virtual realities · physical and virtual overlap · posthuman world

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Distance: 0.1436

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The Fractal Prince

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2012 · Jean le Flambeur

A post-singularity thief heads to Earth, where nested stories, jinn, and hidden powers shape a dangerous heist.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-singularity heist · story within story · memory theft · identity theft · quest for memories · cybernetic intrigue · political conspiracy · battle of factions · virtual reality caper

Setting labels: post-singularity · far future · solar system · Earth · Mars · desert world · post-apocalyptic · virtual worlds · cyberspace · transhuman society · hard SF future · Arabian Nights world

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Distance: 0.1446

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The Currents of Space

Isaac Asimov · 1991 · Galactic Empire

An amnesiac investigator on an oppressed resource planet uncovers a galactic conspiracy that could avert disaster—or ignite war.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · political intrigue · galactic conspiracy · resource exploitation · warning of planetary disaster · mystery investigation · interplanetary power struggle · colonial oppression

Setting labels: far future · galactic empire · planetary society · colonial society · feudal system · interplanetary civilization · spacefaring · planetary divide · upper city · lower city

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Distance: 0.1488

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Glasshouse

Charles Stross · 2006

An amnesiac future fugitive hides inside a 20th-century social experiment that soon turns sinister.

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Premise labels: memory wipe · amnesiac protagonist · assassination threat · future society · social experiment · identity crisis · body swap · closed system · undercover mission · post-scarcity future

Setting labels: far future · 27th century · posthuman society · space colonies · wormhole network · simulation · recreated 20th century · 1950s suburbia · 1990s simulation · sealed environment

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Distance: 0.1525

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Oasis

Dima Zales, Anna Zaires · 2016 · The Last Humans

A sheltered young man in the last habitable enclave on Earth hears a voice that may be real—and may expose everything.

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Premise labels: last refuge · mind control · mysterious voice · memory loss · false reality · hidden truth · censorship · virtual reality · identity mystery · social control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · domed enclave · last habitable place · future society · dystopian society · virtual reality · artificial intelligence · augmented reality · science fiction world · insular community

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Distance: 0.1577

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Blindsight

Peter Watts · 2006 · Firefall

A posthuman first-contact mission heads into the outer solar system to confront an alien intelligence—and rethink consciousness.

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Premise labels: first contact · alien intelligence · posthuman crew · solar system expedition · consciousness question · unfamiliar aliens · bleeding-edge science

Setting labels: near future · solar system · outer solar system · spacecraft · virtual reality · posthuman future · dystopian future · interstellar space

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Distance: 0.1600

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The World of Null-A

A.E. van Vogt · 2002 · Null-A

An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.

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Premise labels: identity mystery · false memories · interstellar conspiracy · utopian social order · philosophical society · superhuman potential · games-based advancement · lawless competition · galactic war · planetary migration

Setting labels: far future · Earth · Venus · interplanetary society · galactic community · utopia · post-war future · spacefaring civilization · lawless month

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Distance: 0.1609

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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.

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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: 0.1616

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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.

Why this is here

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

Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society

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Distance: 0.1642

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