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Premise labels used: sleep elimination, neural chip, scientific hubris, post-apocalypse, cure search, guilt-driven survival, humanity question, medical ethics, productive capitalism, monstrous transformation

Setting labels used: near future, post-apocalyptic London, Tower of London, isolated enclosure, dystopian city, scientific compound, collapsed civilization, late 21st century, claustrophobic setting, alternative future

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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: 0.1530

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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: 0.1602

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Starość aksolotla

Jacek Dukaj · 2015

After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.

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Premise labels: global extinction · mind upload · digital survival · posthuman society · robot bodies · rebuilding civilization · body-soul question · humanity after apocalypse · virtual consciousness · machine habitation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · post-human future · digital afterlife · robot civilization · near future · post-biological world · collapsed biosphere · networked world · mechanical bodies · speculative future

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Deep Freeze

Michael C. Grumley · 2024 · Revival

An army veteran survives a deadly bus crash, then wakes in a secret lab where cryonics, lies, and danger unfold.

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Premise labels: immortality · cryonics · resurrection · medical conspiracy · secret experiment · survival mystery · truth-seeking

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · secret lab · medical facility · icy river · winter storm · collapsed society

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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.

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Premise labels: near future · genetic engineering · global plague · post-collapse survival · corporate power · bioengineered humans · biotech disaster

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world

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Distance: 0.1741

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Τι είδε η γυναίκα του Λωτ;

Ιωάννα Μπουραζοπούλου, Ioanna Bourazopoulou · 2007

In a flooded future, a corporate colony’s secrets surface through six letters and a crossword-like decoding game.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopia · mystery · mystery substance · corporate rule · political corruption · brainwashing · addiction

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · Dead Sea · Sodom · Colony · Paris · Mediterranean · alternate reality · biblical aftermath · flooded world · controlled enclave

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Distance: 0.1761

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Blind Faith

Ben Elton · 2008

In a flooded, theocratic future, one privacy-loving man quietly resists a world built on compulsory sharing and blind faith.

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Premise labels: surveillance state · privacy loss · theocracy · anti-science · social media culture · forced sharing · religious intolerance · post-apocalyptic society · vaccine prohibition · crowd conformity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near future · flooded London · subtropical London · post-climate-change world · overcrowded city · internet-mediated society · theocratic state · dystopian Britain · post-flood world

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1794

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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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The Bane

Keary Taylor · 2013 · The Eden Trilogy

A memory-lost teen in a last human colony must survive a robot plague while choosing between two very different boys.

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Premise labels: human survival · last colony · robot infection · cybernetic plague · love triangle · hidden identity · memory loss · end of humanity · secret past

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · small colony · safe haven · countryside refuge · ruined cities · wilderness survival · human extinction crisis

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 2014 · The Girl With All the Gifts

A gifted child in a fortified lab-cum-school faces a world-shaking truth as a fungal apocalypse closes in.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · infected children · research facility · cure search · coming of age · survival · humanity question

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic England · post-collapse UK · military base · research facility · classroom · cell block · wasteland · ruined cities · London · near-future

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Quarantine

Greg Egan · 1995

A bio-enhanced PI hunts a vanished woman in a quarantined solar system and stumbles into a reality-bending quantum mystery.

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Premise labels: quarantine bubble · missing person case · private investigator · brain modification · quantum mechanics · observer effect · wave function collapse · parallel universes · near future · cyberpunk noir

Setting labels: near future · solar system quarantine · future Australia · Perth · New Hong Kong · late 21st century · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · sealed-off Earth · cyberpunk future

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Distance: 0.1821

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