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Premise labels used: immortality, cloning, aging crisis, cult involvement, future humanity, human extinction, posthuman life, love and death, youth obsession, social critique

Setting labels used: near future, far future, post-apocalyptic world, France, Paris, Spain, Lanzarote, Almeria, dystopian society, cloned society, deserted landscape

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FUTU.RE

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2015

In an immortal future Europe, a regime enforcer is drawn into a clash between state order, parenthood, and humanity.

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Premise labels: immortality · eternal youth · overpopulation · population control · illegal pregnancy · forced aging · birth ban · future society · state control · social engineering

Setting labels: future Europe · far future · megalopolis · tower cities · overpopulated world · immortal society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1252

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Setting labels: distant future · post-apocalyptic · post-extinction · Earth · isolated communities · small tribes · far future · millennial timespan · geological eons · post-catastrophic world

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Distance: 0.1337

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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: 0.1364

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Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future

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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada

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Distance: 0.1524

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Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki · 2021

Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic society · gender politics · population control · screen addiction · alienation · technological mediation · interplanetary politics · human drift · social collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future

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A.D.: After Death

Scott Snyder · 2017 · A.D. After Death

In a post-death future, a man’s search for truth forces him to question immortality, memory, and identity.

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Premise labels: cure for death · immortality · memory loss · mortality crisis · existential journey · post-death society · questioning immortality · search for truth

Setting labels: Far future · Post-apocalyptic world · Immortal enclave · Mountaintop refuge · Dystopian future · Dead world · Closed community · Earth

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Distance: 0.1563

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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: 0.1648

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 2020

A linked speculative-fiction collection on memory, identity, technology, and family, spanning history, futures, and the Singularity.

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Premise labels: speculative futures · uploaded consciousness · posthumanism · family bonds · history and heritage · technology and society · alien contact · war and displacement · climate change · internet toxicity · art and AI · immigrant experience

Setting labels: near future · far future · post-singularity · post-apocalyptic · alternate future · historical fiction · World War II · alien planet · virtual world · digital world · contemporary internet

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On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Kim Bo-young · 2021

A short story collection where robots, humans, dragons, and time travelers probe evolution, identity, and what counts as life.

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Premise labels: posthuman survival · evolutionary thought experiment · nonhuman protagonists · alternate futures · humanity questioned · sentience test · identity crisis · species boundary

Setting labels: far future · posthuman world · robot society · dystopian future · virtual world · video game world · time travel · alternate future · historical fantasy · mythic setting · interplanetary · post-collapse Earth · alien planet · post-apocalyptic

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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu · 2022

Twelve uncanny stories twist modern life, turning grief, technology, and desire into strange new monsters.

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Premise labels: modern monsters · small-world distortions · human condition · speculative twists · everyday uncanny · tech consequences · memory loss · grief and longing · coming of age · human frailty

Setting labels: modern world · near future · futuristic · contemporary · dystopian future · everyday reality · surreal reality · high-tech future · suburbia · workplace

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Forbidden

Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee · 2011 · The Books of Mortals

In a fear-only future, a fugitive discovers blood that restores emotion and may awaken all humanity.

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Premise labels: emotionless society · fear-controlled society · post-apocalyptic future · secret truth · restore humanity · blood as cure · forbidden knowledge · awakening humanity

Setting labels: future earth · post-apocalyptic world · medieval future · alternate future · dystopian society · archaic society · capital city · Rome-derived future city · Byzantium

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Distance: 0.1680

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