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Setting labels used: near-future New York City, Manhattan, public housing project, urban dystopia, 2020s, future housing project, subsidized housing
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A privileged New York girl’s diary records her family’s fall as a near-future city and country unravel around her.
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Setting labels: near-future Manhattan · New York City · alternate reality · urban dystopia · civil unrest · economic collapse
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Distance: 0.1182
In a flooded future Manhattan, an amnesiac socialite must uncover the truth about her engagement, her memories, and a hidden rebellion.
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Setting labels: future Manhattan · flooded city · upper city · lower city · vertical class divide · dystopian world · urban setting
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Distance: 0.1219
An outlaw journalist races to expose a corrupt president in a profane, darkly funny near-future political satire.
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Setting labels: Near future · Dystopian future · Hyper-urban city · Decaying metropolis · Political future · Technological future
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Distance: 0.1322
In a satirical 2023 New York, a sewer-dwelling investigator is pulled into a bizarre conspiracy of robots, sharks, and power.
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Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · 2023 · near future · dystopian future · urban underworld · sewers · public works infrastructure · alternate reality · corporate metropolis
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Distance: 0.1339
In a near-future New York, three interwoven love stories unfold amid sex work, art, and everyday struggle.
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Setting labels: future New York · Manhattan · 2038 · near future · urban dystopia · recognizable city · cyberpunk city · grimy future · commercialized intimacy
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Distance: 0.1369
Three teens from climate-destroyed Nubia uncover inherited powers in a divided future New York and must choose their loyalties.
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Setting labels: near-future · future New York City · flooded city · sky city · lower Manhattan · post-climate disaster · alternate future · African utopia
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Distance: 0.1444
In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
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Distance: 0.1446
An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.
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Setting labels: near-future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · urban decay · media-saturated future · political future
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Distance: 0.1557
In a near-future New York, a book-loving salesmen and a younger social-media native try to love amid collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · New York City · Manhattan · Rome · post-literate society · tech-saturated world · dystopian America · economic collapse · Chinese creditors · immigration pressure
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Distance: 0.1562
In a near-future city where everyone stays indoors, one man’s evening walk becomes a suspicious act.
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Setting labels: 2053 · mid-twenty-first century · future city · urban night · empty streets · TV-lit homes · dystopian future · near-future
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Distance: 0.1570
A combative journalist is drawn into a near-future housing nightmare where truth, survival, and control collide.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · urban crisis · housing camps · detention facility · institutional setting · post-crisis society
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Distance: 0.1570
In 2050, three women become entangled in a climate-proof city where a billionaire’s feminist utopia hides darker control.
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Setting labels: near future · 2050 · Brooklyn · Manhattan · weather-damaged world · sealed city · domed enclave · urban dystopia · global climate crisis · space-bound elite
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Distance: 0.1573
