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Premise labels used: memory trade, illegal memories, corporate control, class divide, fugitive chase, forced proximity, amnesia romance, enemies to lovers, humanity vs system, resistance awakening

Setting labels used: near future, futuristic city, dystopian future, corporate state, privatized society, hypercapitalist world, metro city, wilderness, no-man's-land

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Alexandra St. Pierre · 2026

In a near-future memory-tech world, a bullied genius gets pulled into a dangerous, obsessive MM romance.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · memory manipulation · tech company · forbidden technology · stalker romance · identity crisis · forced involvement · hidden past · genius MC · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · futuristic world · dystopian future · corporate setting · high-tech setting · AI · self-driving cars · memory tech · techno-reality

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Distance: 0.1513

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Pretties

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

A newly prettified teen must fight brainwashing, social pressure, and her own fading memory to uncover the truth.

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Premise labels: beauty control · memory tampering · brainwashing · forced conformity · choice versus control · return to self · reversal quest · authorities in pursuit

Setting labels: future society · controlled city · pretty town · wilderness · reservation · post-apocalyptic future · techno society · societal stratification

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Distance: 0.1612

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The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem

Gerard Way · 2021 · The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

A memory-wiped former rebel races to reunite his old crew and expose a reality-controlled dystopia.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · disbanded team · reunion quest · road trip · corporate power · anti-corporate resistance · teen rebellion · alternate reality · dystopian uprising · final showdown

Setting labels: alternate present · dystopian future · whitewashed reality · controlled society · gang-ridden world · urban wasteland · retro-futurism · technicolor world

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Distance: 0.1656

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The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Shallee McArthur · 2014

A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.

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Premise labels: memory theft · stored memories · genetically enhanced humans · social divide · thief hunt · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · future society · city setting · closed community · urban dystopia · futuristic technology · science fiction world · class divide

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Distance: 0.1720

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Paycheck

Philip K. Dick · 1953

A memory-wiped engineer receives odd trinkets instead of his paycheck and must use them to survive and uncover the truth.

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Premise labels: memory wipe · future clues · on the run · corporate secret · time-scooping · predestination · survival puzzle

Setting labels: dystopian future · police state · corporate power · authoritarian government · industrial workplace · near future

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Distance: 0.1804

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Proxy

Alex London · 2013 · Proxy

A gay proxy and his privileged patron collide in a debt-ridden dystopia, then flee a system built on punishment.

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Premise labels: proxy system · debt economy · rich and poor divide · punishment transfer · fugitives · oppressive system · cross-country chase · rebel movement

Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian future · post-collapse society · upper city · lower city · slum · wasteland · desert journey · technocratic society

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Distance: 0.1811

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Grimspace

Ann Aguirre · 2008 · Sirantha Jax

A traumatized space navigator with a rare gene escapes prison and joins rebels in a fight against corporate control.

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Premise labels: rare gene · ship navigator · fugitive heroine · corporate control · prison breakout · rebellion · mind link · interstellar transport · amnesia · wrongly accused

Setting labels: space future · interstellar travel · multiple planets · space stations · outer space · parallel space · corporate dystopia · frontier worlds · planetary travel

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Distance: 0.1816

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Count Zero

William Gibson · 2006 · Sprawl

A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.

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Premise labels: corporate espionage · cyberspace hacker · art investigation · mercenary extraction · biochip theft · multiple protagonists · AI intrigue · virtual reality

Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl

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Distance: 0.1822

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Corruption

Jessica Shirvington · 2014 · Disruption

A betrayed heroine fights a corrupt corporation, battles trust issues, and risks everything to win back love and freedom.

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Premise labels: resistance movement · corrupt corporation · false identity · betrayal · truth reveal · revolution · fighting back · love after betrayal

Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · corporate regime · underground prison · high-tech surveillance · Australia (source publication) · global scope · futuristic city

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Distance: 0.1823

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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1

Yukito Kishiro · 1995 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

An amnesiac cyborg is rebuilt from scrap and pulled into violent fights while searching for who she was.

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Premise labels: amnesiac cyborg · lost identity · body reconstruction · bounty hunter · cybernetic revival · junkheap discovery · combat instincts · search for past · human-machine boundary · floating city

Setting labels: futuristic dystopia · cyberpunk world · scrapyard · floating city · sky city · desert wasteland · lawless frontier · post-apocalyptic world · outer lands · train route

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Distance: 0.1836

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Local Heavens

K.M. Fajardo · 2025

In 2075 New York, a Filipino American corporate hacker is sent to probe a billionaire’s secrets and falls into doomed desire.

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Premise labels: corporate hacker · investigation · elite intrigue · class divide · doomed romance · wealth disparity · morality vs desire · American Dream · cyberspace conspiracy · hidden secrets

Setting labels: New York City · 2075 · near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · capitalist society · late-stage capitalism · fractured nation · post-war society · technological future · corporate city · futuristic Americas

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Distance: 0.1836

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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

Yiming Ma · 2025

In a future where memories are bought, edited, and banned, a son risks everything to share his mother’s forbidden past.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory transfer · memory commodification · memory censorship · authoritarian surveillance · inherited memories · banned memories · state control · history control · truth suppression · memory as evidence · memory inheritance · resistance through remembering · illegal knowledge

Setting labels: future China · authoritarian state · dystopian future · postwar future · global superpower · occupied America · near future · shared-memory society · surveilled society · alternate history · global war aftermath · reeducation state

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Distance: 0.1839

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