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Rachel Khong

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Premise labels used: love, identity, belonging, becoming oneself, speculative premise, social satire, afterlife, race and gender, female friendship, dating, marriage, childlessness, capitalism, grief

Setting labels used: contemporary America, afterlife, heaven, speculative reality, near future

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Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy

Robert Anton Wilson · 2003 · Schrödinger's Cat

A satirical multiverse trilogy where shifting realities, sex, politics, and quantum ideas collide in a wildly fractured world.

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Premise labels: alternate realities · parallel universes · multiple worlds · quantum mechanics · satirical dystopia · conspiracy thriller · metafiction · social satire · utopian speculation · identity shifts

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel universes · multiverse · future America · contemporary America · global politics · science fictional reality

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Distance: 0.1907

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Soft Science

Franny Choi · 2019

A poetry collection uses cyborgs and Turing tests to probe queer Asian American identity, language, and survival.

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Premise labels: queer identity · Asian American femininity · consciousness · artificial intelligence · automation · Turing test · humanity · survival · violence · alienation

Setting labels: contemporary America · technological world · violent world · cyborg reality · liminal space · digital space

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Distance: 0.1964

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Portalmania: Stories

Debbie Urbanski · 2025

A genre-bending short story collection where portals, marriages, and identity crises expose the costs of escape and desire.

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Premise labels: portals · escape · alternate realities · identity · otherness · desire · marriage · motherhood · family conflict · transformation

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · domestic sphere · boarding school · space · alternate reality · speculative reality · near future · mythic realism

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Distance: 0.2059

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In Universes

Emet North · 2024

A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.

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Premise labels: parallel universes · multiverse · alternate lives · identity search · self-discovery · regret · belonging · love across versions · life choices · reality shifts

Setting labels: contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · cosmology lab · apocalyptic worlds · surreal worlds · realistic worlds

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Distance: 0.2060

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Version Control

Dexter Palmer · 2016

A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.

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Premise labels: near future · causality violation · time travel · marriage crisis · grief · alternate reality · technology and society

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · United States · information age · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.2070

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My Name Isn't Paul: A Cosmic Horror Novella

Drew Huff · 2025

An alien mimic living as a salesman unravels as his species’ breeding cycle forces a crisis of self and hunger.

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Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden identity · mimicry · alien among humans · human disguise · existential dread · body horror · reproductive horror

Setting labels: contemporary America · cross-country road trip · blue-collar America · human society · interdimensional beings · earth · liminal/alien reality

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Distance: 0.2100

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The Egg

Andy Weir · 2009

A dying man meets God and is given a startling explanation of life, identity, and reincarnation.

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Premise labels: afterlife · reincarnation · meaning of life · divine dialogue · existential inquiry · cosmic identity

Setting labels: afterlife · post-death · cosmic · universe · timeless

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Distance: 0.2135

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Welcome to the Monkey House

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2013

A varied anthology of Vonnegut short fiction blending satire, dystopia, romance, war, and strange speculative ideas.

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Premise labels: social satire · speculative futures · overpopulation · equality politics · war critique · romance · everyday life

Setting labels: midcentury America · postwar era · future dystopia · Cold War era · small-town settings · overcrowded future · wartime settings

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Distance: 0.2141

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Venus Plus X

Theodore Sturgeon · 1960

A man is pulled into a future society without gender and forced to confront everything his own world takes for granted.

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Premise labels: genderless society · future society · outsider in utopia · culture clash · social experiment · gender roles · sexuality and society · human evolution

Setting labels: future society · utopia · isolated community · suburban America · midcentury America · 1950s social norms · genderless world · post-gender society · far future · time travel

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Distance: 0.2157

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The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter · 1992

A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.

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Premise labels: forced transformation · gender reversal · identity crisis · apocalyptic America · body politics · feminist dystopia · sexual politics · journey westward

Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2167

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The Affinities

Robert Charles Wilson · 2015

A lonely young man joins a near-future compatibility group and discovers a new social order that could remake society.

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Premise labels: social sorting · found family · tribalism · neo-tribal future · group compatibility · instant belonging

Setting labels: near future · present-day adjacent · social media age · Canada · urban contemporary · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2173

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Premise labels: idea-driven · thought experiments · future technology · identity crisis · consciousness · selfhood · moral dilemma · bioethics · speculative extrapolation · human augmentation

Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future

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Distance: 0.2180

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