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Premise labels used: mind merging, consciousness sharing, medical experiment, Alzheimer’s, overpopulation, climate collapse, resource scarcity, ethical dilemma, family sacrifice, state coercion

Setting labels used: near future, futuristic UK, near-future England, dystopian society, climate-affected world, rehabilitation center, controlled campus, luxury rehab center, subsidized housing, Village

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The Wanting Seed

Anthony Burgess · 1962

In an overpopulated near future, one marriage is caught in a collapsing system of birth controls, scarcity, and social upheaval.

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Premise labels: overpopulation · population control · anti-natal policy · state control · resource scarcity · social collapse · cannibalism · forced homosexuality · perpetual war · cyclical history

Setting labels: near future · overpopulated world · dystopian society · skyscraper world · future London · Britain · post-collapse society · authoritarian state · wartime society · apocalyptic future

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Distance: 0.1832

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Kings of a Dead World

Jamie Mollart · 2021

In a climate-ravaged near future, a society survives by sleeping most of the year, until its hidden order starts to crack.

Why this is here

Premise labels: resource scarcity · climate collapse · enforced hibernation · population control · survival regime · hidden conspiracy · social collapse · class divide · revolutionary resistance

Setting labels: near future · futuristic Earth · futuristic Britain · climate-ravaged world · flooded coastlines · arid landscape · hibernating city · post-collapse society · surveillance state · controlled district

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Distance: 0.1915

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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: brain implant · augmented reality · social media · surveillance state · government overreach · technology ethics · memory access · dream control · future crimes · forced adoption

Setting labels: near-future London · future Britain · dystopian future · technology-driven society · virtual reality layer · augmented reality · off-grid island · wilderness encampment · state care

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Distance: 0.1974

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2BR02B

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2007

In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.

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Premise labels: population control · extended lifespan · government regulation · assisted suicide · moral dilemma · birth requirement · one in one out · overpopulation

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · utopian dystopia · hospital · Chicago · controlled society · immortal society · one-room setting

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Distance: 0.2005

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Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

Why this is here

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

Setting labels: 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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Distance: 0.2006

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Hum

Helen Phillips · 2024

After losing her job to AI, a mother takes a risky deal that buys her family a brief escape into a climate-ravaged, overtracked future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: AI job loss · surveillance state · face-alteration experiment · technology dependence · family survival · nature refuge · parental protection · consumerism critique · climate collapse

Setting labels: near future · climate-damaged city · surveillance society · high-tech everyday life · luxury nature reserve · botanical garden · dying planet · post-green urban future · speculative near future

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Distance: 0.2023

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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.

Why this is here

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: 0.2038

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Slated

Teri Terry · 2012 · Slated

A memory-wiped teen must survive a controlled new life while eerie flashes of her past suggest the government is lying.

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Premise labels: memory wipe · second chance · government control · criminal rehabilitation · identity loss · forced reintegration · surveillance state · mind control

Setting labels: near future · dystopian England · closed UK · future London · futuristic UK · surveillance state · school setting · hospital setting

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Distance: 0.2079

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · overpopulated world · wildlife extinction · chimp reserve · hospital · school · urban civilization · conservation setting

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Distance: 0.2084

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Donate

Emma Ellis · 2023

In an overpopulated near-future society, a pregnant woman and her partner race to save their baby from state control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: overpopulation · pregnancy crisis · birth rationing · state control · life sacrifice · illegal pregnancy · family protection · fleeing authority

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · United Kingdom · England · overpopulated world · oppressive regime · post apocalyptic world · no-tech commune · road journey · county divisions

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Distance: 0.2100

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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: 0.2104

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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Distance: 0.2145

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