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Premise labels used: murder investigation, suspect romance, detective suspect, forbidden attraction, grief aftermath, indentured servitude, dystopian survival, hidden secrets, power imbalance, climate collapse

Setting labels used: near future, London, 2095, post-apocalyptic, flooded world, submerged cities, drowned world, future Britain, climate collapse, indentured society

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Earthflown

Frances Wren · 2024 · The Anatomy of Water

In flooded near-future London, a healer, a journalist, and a pharma heir get pulled into water politics, secrets, and romance.

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Premise labels: water crisis · forbidden romance · medical drama · journalist investigation · corporate conspiracy · resource control · big pharma · murder mystery · climate crisis · power struggle

Setting labels: post-flood London · futuristic London · vertically built city · near-future setting · dystopian future · flooded city · high-inequality setting · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1840

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After Atlas

Emma Newman · 2016 · Planetfall

An indentured detective on future Earth investigates a cult leader’s murder and uncovers a conspiracy tied to his past.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · corporate dystopia · indentured detective · future Earth · cult leader death · past catches up · political conspiracy · crime solving

Setting labels: future Earth · near future · dystopian future · corporatized society · cyberpunk future · surveilled society · London · England · Europe · rural commune · hotel crime scene

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Distance: 0.1843

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Mindstar Rising

Peter F. Hamilton · 1997 · Greg Mandel

A psi-enhanced ex-soldier investigates sabotage at a megacorp in a climate-changed, near-future Britain.

Why this is here

Premise labels: psi detective · corporate sabotage · industrial espionage · near-future conspiracy · human lie detector · enhanced operative · future tech · corporate intrigue · private investigator · post-collapse recovery · mind reading · precognition · sabotage investigation · high-tech crime

Setting labels: near-future England · post-global warming · post-apocalyptic · dystopian Britain · Cambridgeshire · Peterborough · Rutland · Wisbech · flooded coastline · salt marshes · space station · corporate Britain · climate-changed world · post-collapse society

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Distance: 0.1929

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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: 0.1933

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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: 0.1937

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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.

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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: 0.1954

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The Last Day

Andrew Hunter Murray · 2020

In a near-future Britain, a scientist is dragged into a government secret after Earth’s rotation stops and chaos spreads.

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Premise labels: stopped rotation · planetary catastrophe · habitable zone · resource scarcity · authoritarian state · government secret · scientist heroine · deathbed clue · race for truth · near-future collapse

Setting labels: 2059 · near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian Britain · North Atlantic · oil rig · London · Oxford · perpetual daylight · perpetual darkness · habitable zone · isolated island state · authoritarian Britain · global catastrophe · twilight belt · post-stop world

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Distance: 0.1976

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The Light at the Bottom of the World

London Shah · 2021 · Light the Abyss

In a flooded future London, a teen racer enters a deadly underwater marathon to win her father’s freedom and expose the truth.

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Premise labels: rescue mission · falsely accused parent · government conspiracy · race for a wish · underwater survival · truth quest · defy authority · save family

Setting labels: underwater city · submerged London · future Britain · post-apocalyptic future · oceanic abyss · ruined landmarks · undersea society · 2099 · late 21st century · alternate future

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Distance: 0.2011

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The Chaos

Rachel Ward · 2010 · Num8ers

A teen who sees death dates and a girl haunted by a nightmare race to stop a near-future catastrophe in London.

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Premise labels: death dates · precognition · warning disaster · fated catastrophe · psychic gift · future event

Setting labels: near future · futuristic dystopia · London · Britain · surveillance state · flooded world · post-flood society · totalitarian future

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Distance: 0.2030

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Flashback

Dan Simmons · 2011

In a collapsing near-future America, a flashback-addicted ex-cop is hired to reopen a long-unsolved murder.

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Premise labels: dystopian thriller · murder investigation · memory drug · collapsed society · flashback addiction · former detective · disgraced cop · future collapse · nationwide addiction · memory-driven inquiry

Setting labels: near future · future United States · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · collapsed America · Denver · Los Angeles · Japanese-dominated world order · global caliphate · alternative future

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Distance: 0.2056

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The Moonday Letters

Emmi Itäranta · 2022

A healer on a ravaged future Earth hunts for her vanished spouse across the colonized solar system.

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Premise labels: missing spouse · search quest · epistolary framing · environmental collapse · solar system colonization · love story · eco-terrorism · healer protagonist

Setting labels: near future · 22nd century · solar system · Mars · Earth · Moon · Jupiter moons · colonized space · dystopian Earth · environmentally devastated world · floating cities · cylinder cities · space colonies · off-world settlement

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Distance: 0.2062

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An Ocean Apart

Jill Tew · 2025

In a flooded future, a girl infiltrates a luxury dating contest to steal back her community’s future—until love complicates the mission.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate dystopia · love triangle · dating competition · infiltration mission · undercover identity · class rebellion · resource scarcity · revenge plan · political intrigue

Setting labels: post-climate collapse · flooded future · former Miami · the Marshes · at sea · floating cruise ships · luxury ship society · near-future dystopia · water-scarce world · corporate state

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Distance: 0.2064

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