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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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Cover of The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of Your Utopia by Bora Chung

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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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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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.

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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.

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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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Cover of The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq

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.

Why this is here

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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Cover of The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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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Cover of One by Eve Smith

One

Eve Smith · 2023

In a climate-ravaged UK, a loyal government enforcer discovers her forbidden sibling is her own.

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Premise labels: one-child policy · population control · climate disaster · totalitarian regime · state surveillance · forbidden sibling · government enforcer · reproductive control

Setting labels: near future · future UK · climate-ravaged Britain · dystopian future · totalitarian state · technologically monitored society · post-climate disaster world

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Distance: 0.2149

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Cover of Arborescence by Rhett Davis

Arborescence

Rhett Davis · 2026

In a near-future world, a couple is divided by a spreading movement of people trying to become trees.

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Premise labels: people turning into trees · eco-collapse · AI saturation · climate crisis · identity crisis · purpose seeking · relationship drift · humanity redefinition · saving the planet · post-human transformation

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · Australia · decaying cities · greener world · forest community · urban ecology · globalized world · technologically advanced society · off-grid camps

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The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: surrogacy · IVF · genetic experiment · bioethics · hybrid human · secret experiment · ethical dilemma · otherness

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · 2056 · New York · London · Scottish Highlands · future society · alternate future · post-climate-change · technologically advanced

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Distance: 0.2156

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Cover of A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

A Calculated Life

Anne Charnock · 2013

A hyper-intelligent engineered analyst in a controlled near-future society starts questioning her role, freedom, and humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: engineered humans · predictive analytics · human identity · social stratification · corporate control · artificial person · self-discovery · class separation · controlled population · posthuman society

Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · England · Manchester · dystopian future · climate change · corporate society · regulated enclaves · office world · alternate future

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Distance: 0.2164

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Cover of We Hear Voices by Evie Green

We Hear Voices

Evie Green · 2020

In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mysterious pandemic · imaginary friend · children hearing voices · violent influence · family under strain · post-illness aftermath · secret research facility · space program · dystopian collapse · near-future crisis

Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living

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Distance: 0.2172

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Cover of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

The Unit

Ninni Holmqvist · 2009

In near-future Sweden, childless older adults are sent to a luxury unit where comfort masks organ harvesting and control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: disposable people · organ harvesting · medical experimentation · social worth · required to reproduce · institutional captivity · benevolent dystopia · late-life displacement · surplus lives

Setting labels: near future · Sweden · institutional setting · controlled community · surveillance state · clinical environment · luxury confinement · dystopian future · secluded compound

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Distance: 0.2178

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Cover of Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss

Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.

Why this is here

Premise labels: sterile humanity · last generation · world without children · nuclear accident · civilizational collapse · nature reclaims world · aging population

Setting labels: near future · England · Oxford · Thames valley · post-apocalyptic world · river journey · quasi-medieval society · rural countryside · flooded landscape · reclaimed nature

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Distance: 0.2181

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Cover of The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2011

An anti-aging cure leaves one family crammed together for generations, where inheritance, privacy, and patience collapse.

Why this is here

Premise labels: anti-aging drug · immortality · overpopulation · resource scarcity · family crowding · inheritance conflict · household power

Setting labels: near future · far future · futuristic America · crowded apartment · urban overcrowding · limited privacy · post-aging society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.2184

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Cover of Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick

Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick · 2002

A violent youth is forced through a state reform experiment, raising questions about free will, morality, and control.

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Premise labels: youth violence · mind control · state coercion · free will · criminal reform · brainwashing · retribution · moral choice · social control

Setting labels: Britain · near future · dystopian society · urban violence · prison · state institution · youth subculture · cinematic setting

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Distance: 0.2199

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Cover of This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise

This Fragile Earth

Susannah Wise · 2021

In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.

Why this is here

Premise labels: tech collapse · system failure · family survival · mother and child · escape city · apocalypse survival · protect child · societal breakdown · near-future crisis · technology dependence · environmental collapse · survival journey

Setting labels: near future · London · British countryside · recognisable future · post collapse society · automated world · climate affected · tech dependent society · low-visibility threat · rural refuge · fragile civilization

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Distance: 0.2206

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Cover of The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith

The Waiting Rooms

Eve Smith · 2020

In a near-future antibiotic crisis, a nurse’s search for her birth mother unearths family secrets and deadly truths.

Why this is here

Premise labels: antibiotic crisis · drug resistance · age-based rationing · elder care triage · birth mother search · family secrets · medical scarcity · infectious disease collapse · assisted dying

Setting labels: near future · dystopian Britain · United Kingdom · London · South Africa · pre-crisis South Africa · post-crisis world · global crisis

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Distance: 0.2211

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Cover of Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham

Trouble with Lichen

John Wyndham · 1960

A biochemist’s anti-aging discovery sparks secrecy, gender politics, and a debate over who gets to live longer.

Why this is here

Premise labels: anti-aging discovery · life extension · scientific breakthrough · feminist revolution · social upheaval · ethical dilemma · limited resource

Setting labels: near-future England · Britain · London · research lab · beauty salon · 20th century Britain · mid-century social world

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Distance: 0.2223

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