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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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Neurovance

Alexandra St. Pierre · 2026

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

Why this is here

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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Pretties

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Uglies

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

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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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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Corruption

Jessica Shirvington · 2014 · Disruption

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

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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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.

Why this is here

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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Mystic City

Theo Lawrence · 2012 · Mystic City

In a flooded future Manhattan, an amnesiac socialite must uncover the truth about her engagement, her memories, and a hidden rebellion.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · forbidden romance · star-crossed lovers · rival families · political feud · class divide · oppressed outcasts · rebellion

Setting labels: future Manhattan · flooded city · upper city · lower city · vertical class divide · dystopian world · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1841

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The Longest Day of the Future

Lucas Varela · 2025

In a futuristic city ruled by rival corporations, a silent chain of strange events turns a mysterious briefcase into chaos.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future city · rival corporations · alien visitor · wish fulfillment · unconscious desire · corporate war · bureaucratic worker · robot protagonist · mysterious suitcase · corporate sabotage

Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian future · far future · corporate-controlled society · hyper-consumerist world · hyper-surveilled society · retro-futurism · robots and aliens

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Distance: 0.1853

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Counterweight

Djuna · 2023

A corporate detective races through a near-future space-elevator conspiracy as AI, memory, and identity collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: space elevator · corporate intrigue · corporate espionage · AI takeover · memory theft · identity theft · political unrest · colonial resistance · data recovery · conspiracy · brain implants · future noir

Setting labels: near future · unspecified future · fictional island · island nation · space elevator · corporate state · tropical resort town · orbital habitat · global megacorporation · surveillance society · dystopian future

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He, She and It

Marge Piercy · 1993

In a corporate-dominated future, a Jewish free town trains a cyborg protector while an old golem story echoes their fate.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cyborg protector · custody loss · free town · corporate control · human-machine bond · parallel legend · golem retelling · AI personhood · community defense

Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · corporate enclaves · free town · Jewish community · cyberspace · virtual reality · alternate Prague · historic Prague · ecological collapse · climate-damaged world · domed habitat · radiation-scarred Earth

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Distance: 0.1877

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The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Gerard Way, Shaun Simon · 2014 · The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

In a neon dystopia, a surviving girl must unite rebels and face a corporate regime to reclaim freedom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: anti-corporate resistance · desert outlaws · rebel uprising · individuality vs conformity · return of a survivor · legacy mission · post-collapse freedom fight · system overthrow

Setting labels: desert wasteland · Battery City · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · corporate dictatorship · urban outskirts · radio broadcast culture · fictional future

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Distance: 0.1881

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The Drafter

Kim Harrison · 2015 · The Peri Reed Chronicles

A memory-fractured government operative races to expose corruption while untangling rewritten timelines and betrayals.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · time manipulation · conspiracy · secret agent · corruption · trust issues · on the run · false memories

Setting labels: futuristic Detroit · 2030 · near future · alternative world · post-urban decay · secret government

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Distance: 0.1885

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Shatter City

Scott Westerfeld · 2019 · Impostors

A body-double twin must survive a war-torn city, find her missing sister, and outmaneuver her tyrannical father.

Why this is here

Premise labels: double identity · impersonation · missing sibling · revenge quest · rebellion · city under threat · warfare · emotional control technology

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: 0.1889

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Distance: 0.1890

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

Why this is here

Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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The One Hand and The Six Fingers

Ram V, Dan Watters · 2024 · The One Hand

Two interwoven sci-fi noir stories track a retiring detective and a murder suspect as the same case cracks reality open.

Why this is here

Premise labels: serial killer case · copycat murders · cat-and-mouse chase · dual protagonists · interwoven narratives · retirement case · memory loss · identity crisis · future metropolis · coded crime scenes

Setting labels: future city · Neo Novena · far future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · rainy city · urban megalopolis · post-singularity society · android-filled world

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Distance: 0.1894

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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: 0.1897

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Hujan

Tere Liye · 2016

In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory erasure · post-disaster survival · star-crossed lovers · friendship bond · environmental collapse · future technology · lost memories

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath

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Distance: 0.1904

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