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Premise labels used: memory loss, stolen time, archive companion, knowledge transfer, alien occupation, post-invasion society, cultural preservation

Setting labels used: dystopian future, post-alien invasion, postcolonial future, agricultural collective, archive setting, memory-depleted society

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Hujan

Tere Liye · 2016

In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · post-disaster survival · star-crossed lovers · friendship bond · environmental collapse · future technology · lost memories

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath

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Distance: 0.1587

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E

Kate Wrath · 2014 · E

An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.

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Premise labels: memory loss · erasure · survival struggle · slavery threat · dystopian order · found family · imminent war

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier

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Distance: 0.1741

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The Drafter

Kim Harrison · 2015 · The Peri Reed Chronicles

A memory-fractured government operative races to expose corruption while untangling rewritten timelines and betrayals.

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Premise labels: memory loss · time manipulation · conspiracy · secret agent · corruption · trust issues · on the run · false memories

Setting labels: futuristic Detroit · 2030 · near future · alternative world · post-urban decay · secret government

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Distance: 0.1765

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The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Shallee McArthur · 2014

A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.

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Premise labels: memory theft · stored memories · genetically enhanced humans · social divide · thief hunt · identity crisis

Setting labels: near future · future society · city setting · closed community · urban dystopia · futuristic technology · science fiction world · class divide

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Distance: 0.1772

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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

Yiming Ma · 2025

In a future where memories are bought, edited, and banned, a son risks everything to share his mother’s forbidden past.

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Premise labels: memory transfer · memory commodification · memory censorship · authoritarian surveillance · inherited memories · banned memories · state control · history control · truth suppression · memory as evidence · memory inheritance · resistance through remembering · illegal knowledge

Setting labels: future China · authoritarian state · dystopian future · postwar future · global superpower · occupied America · near future · shared-memory society · surveilled society · alternate history · global war aftermath · reeducation state

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Distance: 0.1804

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The Currents of Space

Isaac Asimov · 1991 · Galactic Empire

An amnesiac investigator on an oppressed resource planet uncovers a galactic conspiracy that could avert disaster—or ignite war.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · political intrigue · galactic conspiracy · resource exploitation · warning of planetary disaster · mystery investigation · interplanetary power struggle · colonial oppression

Setting labels: far future · galactic empire · planetary society · colonial society · feudal system · interplanetary civilization · spacefaring · planetary divide · upper city · lower city

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Distance: 0.1835

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr. · 1984 · St. Leibowitz

In a post-nuclear future, monks preserve scraps of old knowledge as history cycles from ruin toward renewal and ruin again.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic knowledge preservation · nuclear holocaust aftermath · monastic archive · civilizational cycle · lost knowledge

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · American Southwest · desert monastery · new Dark Age · nuclear wasteland · future history · medieval analogue · spacefaring future

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Distance: 0.1852

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The Chimes

Anna Smaill · 2015

In a music-ruled London where memory resets daily, a young outsider pursues the truth and a way to change everything.

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Premise labels: memory loss · forbidden writing · music-based communication · authoritarian control · quest for truth · special gift · memory retrieval · restoring freedom

Setting labels: alternate London · future England · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian society · ruined city · country-to-city journey

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Distance: 0.1871

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Return From the Stars

Stanisław Lem · 2005

An astronaut returns to an Earth transformed by time and a peace-driven social experiment, and struggles to belong.

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Premise labels: time dilation · return to Earth · culture shock · changed future society · post-violence society · utopian dystopia · alienation · reintegration

Setting labels: Earth future · space travel · post-scarcity society · post-violence society · technological utopia · dystopian utopia · spacefaring civilization

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Distance: 0.1877

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Cronus

P. Djèlí Clark · 2025 · The Time Traveler's Passport

In a segregated near-future, a Black woman at a time-travel company uncovers a history-warping secret.

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Premise labels: time travel tourism · rewritten history · false memories · segregated future · racial oppression · tech abuse · state control · resistance movement

Setting labels: near future · 2030 · alternate history · dystopian future · United States · segregated society · time travel present

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Distance: 0.1879

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The Golden Age

John C. Wright · 2003 · The Golden Oecumene

An amnesiac heir in a dazzling post-human solar-system utopia probes a buried past that may shatter his world.

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Premise labels: amnesia mystery · identity quest · far-future society · utopian instability · memory recovery · conspiracy discovery · transhuman future · self-investigation

Setting labels: solar system · far future · 10,000 years in future · interplanetary society · utopian society · post-singularity · virtual reality · transhuman society · engineered planets · augmented reality

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Distance: 0.1890

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The Fractal Prince

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2012 · Jean le Flambeur

A post-singularity thief heads to Earth, where nested stories, jinn, and hidden powers shape a dangerous heist.

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Premise labels: post-singularity heist · story within story · memory theft · identity theft · quest for memories · cybernetic intrigue · political conspiracy · battle of factions · virtual reality caper

Setting labels: post-singularity · far future · solar system · Earth · Mars · desert world · post-apocalyptic · virtual worlds · cyberspace · transhuman society · hard SF future · Arabian Nights world

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Distance: 0.1893

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