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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
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A varied anthology of Vonnegut short fiction blending satire, dystopia, romance, war, and strange speculative ideas.
Why this is here
Premise labels: social satire · speculative futures · overpopulation · equality politics · war critique · romance · everyday life
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Distance: 0.1766
A collection of alien comic strips that use literal language to make ordinary human life funny, strange, and sweet.
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Premise labels: Alien viewpoint · Everyday life · Literal language · Human behavior · Social satire · Domestic absurdity · Mundane transformed
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Distance: 0.1959
A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel universes · multiverse · alternate lives · identity search · self-discovery · regret · belonging · love across versions · life choices · reality shifts
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Distance: 0.1981
In a future moon society of radical freedom, an alienated outsider’s identity crisis collides with war, sex, and gender.
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Premise labels: utopian society · identity crisis · gender transition · sexual freedom · social experimentation · immigrant outsider · misfit protagonist · war backdrop · psychological study · future society
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Distance: 0.1992
In gentrified Santa Cruz, two guarded women form a friendship that exposes buried secrets, control, and possible artificiality.
Why this is here
Premise labels: female friendship · loneliness · identity · memory loss · AI · tech elite · gendered control · male gaze · body image · queer shame · found family · social isolation · secret pasts · desire
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Distance: 0.1996
A poetry collection uses cyborgs and Turing tests to probe queer Asian American identity, language, and survival.
Why this is here
Premise labels: queer identity · Asian American femininity · consciousness · artificial intelligence · automation · Turing test · humanity · survival · violence · alienation
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Distance: 0.2013
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
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Distance: 0.2019
A debut collection of strange, allegorical stories where speculative twists expose immigration, class, grief, and otherness.
Why this is here
Premise labels: speculative stories · social allegory · border crossing · otherness · outsiderhood · immigration · xenophobia · class conflict · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2048
An alien mimic living as a salesman unravels as his species’ breeding cycle forces a crisis of self and hunger.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden identity · mimicry · alien among humans · human disguise · existential dread · body horror · reproductive horror
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Distance: 0.2052
A surreal short story collection where bizarre premises reveal love, loss, faith, and human longing.
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Premise labels: surreal tales · speculative vignettes · family and longing · love and loss · weird fiction · human connection · social satire
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Distance: 0.2070
A short-story collection of darkly comic, surreal vignettes about family, loneliness, and the absurdities of everyday life.
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Premise labels: ordinary life · unusual premise · human connection · miscommunication · family conflict · parenthood · survival · daily absurdity · emotional rupture · speculative twist
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2097
A lonely young man joins a near-future compatibility group and discovers a new social order that could remake society.
Why this is here
Premise labels: social sorting · found family · tribalism · neo-tribal future · group compatibility · instant belonging
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2098
