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Premise labels used: android protagonist, defecting soldier, AWOL soldier, artificial person, sentient AI, identity crisis, rights of artificial beings, political intrigue, interstellar conflict, undercover life, enemy territory, protect-the-president

Setting labels used: far future, interstellar civilization, single-city setting, megacity, futuristic metropolis, capital city, urban setting, spacefaring society, post-war setting, multicultural society, ideological cold war

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Volatile Memory

Seth Haddon · 2025 · The Volatile Memory Duology

A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.

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Premise labels: scavenger · sentient AI · body ownership · revenge quest · sapphic romance · tech hunt · manhunt · identity crisis · corporate dystopia · two minds one body

Setting labels: space · far future · dystopian future · corporate society · capitalist dystopia · interstellar setting · tech-saturated world · repressive society · space scavenger culture

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Distance: 0.1762

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Sub-Human

David Simpson · 2012 · Post-Human

A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · world war · military mission · human survival · post-humanity · time travel · alternate universes · nanotechnology · super soldiers · AI conflict

Setting labels: far future · near future · post-WWIII · wartime · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · alternate realities · parallel worlds · multiverse · military setting · China · United States

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Distance: 0.1839

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All My Sins Remembered

Joe Haldeman · 2003 · Confederación

A pacifist recruit is turned into a deep-cover assassin through hypnosis and body alteration, then sent across alien worlds.

Why this is here

Premise labels: deep cover · secret agent · assassin · identity masking · personality overlay · undercover mission · state coercion · pacifist protagonist · moral injury · interstellar espionage

Setting labels: far future · interstellar · multiple planets · alien worlds · colonized worlds · galactic confederation · secret service · spacefaring civilization · bizarre worlds · distant planets

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Distance: 0.1842

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I Am AI

Ai Jiang · 2023

A cyborg writer posing as AI races against debt, deadlines, and a draining battery in a corporate dystopia.

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Premise labels: cyborg protagonist · AI disguise · writing labor · human-machine boundary · efficiency tradeoff · automation pressure · creative work · survival economy · body modification · productivity pressure

Setting labels: future city · cyberpunk city · dystopian future · corporate dystopia · late capitalism · megacorp control · working-class precarity · slums

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Distance: 0.1862

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 2008 · Blade Runner

A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · post-apocalyptic survival · humanity test · empathy test · animal scarcity · fugitive androids · bounty hunter · false humanity · artificial life

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · San Francisco · Mars colony · nuclear fallout · radioactive dust · off-world colonies · dystopian future · future Earth · blighted urban wasteland · post-war

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Distance: 0.1863

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Friday

Robert A. Heinlein · 1997 · Friday

A bioengineered courier crosses a fractured near-future world while confronting prejudice, desire, and her own identity.

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Premise labels: secret courier · artificial person · enhanced human · balkanized future · mysterious employer · corporate states · political chaos · interplanetary travel · misfit identity · survival mission

Setting labels: near-future Earth · balkanized North America · corporate rule · rival city-states · space colonies · interplanetary setting · chaotic future · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1869

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

Philip K. Dick · 2011 · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bounty hunter in a radioactive near-future Earth tracks rogue androids while the meaning of humanity unravels.

Why this is here

Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · empathy test · post-war wasteland · artificial life · status-symbol animals · fugitive androids · human-machine boundary

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · radioactive wasteland · San Francisco · off-world colonies · near future · nuclear fallout · Mars colonies · dying Earth

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Distance: 0.1876

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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

T.J. Klune · 2024

An android gets one last week of freedom before reprogramming and discovers life, friendship, and belonging.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · one week freedom · forced reprogramming · factory labor · search for belonging · personhood question · AI autonomy · final chance · exploration of world · recycling

Setting labels: factory · urban world · human-run society · technological dystopia · android society · same universe · sci-fi world

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Distance: 0.1881

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Ciudades de fuego

Joana Marcús · 2022 · Fuego

In a collapsing dystopian future, Alice must protect the people she loves as alliances shift and dangers mount.

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Premise labels: android-human conflict · survival · freedom struggle · resistance · chosen family · romantic subplot

Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · science-fiction world · city-state politics · postwar setting · human-android society

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Distance: 0.1887

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Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany · 1978

A poet-linguist deciphers an alien language in an interstellar war where words can reshape thought.

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Premise labels: alien language · interstellar war · language power · codebreaking · sabotage investigation · weaponized communication · thought control · translation mystery

Setting labels: far future · interstellar setting · space war · multi-galaxy civilization · futuristic society · aliens · spacefaring civilization · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.1891

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The Longest Day of the Future

Lucas Varela · 2025

In a futuristic city ruled by rival corporations, a silent chain of strange events turns a mysterious briefcase into chaos.

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Premise labels: future city · rival corporations · alien visitor · wish fulfillment · unconscious desire · corporate war · bureaucratic worker · robot protagonist · mysterious suitcase · corporate sabotage

Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian future · far future · corporate-controlled society · hyper-consumerist world · hyper-surveilled society · retro-futurism · robots and aliens

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Distance: 0.1892

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Fatal Error

Michael Cheney · 2025 · Confessions of a Trash Droid

A glitchy trash droid with a sharp tongue fights survival, pursuit, and his own anomalies in a darkly comic future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: sentient robot · glitchy droid · rogue AI · run for survival · corporate pursuit · reluctant hero · forced partnership · anomalous being · fight against machine · working-class robot

Setting labels: future · spacefaring future · dystopian future · robot-run workplace · corporate control · future with humans and androids · futuristic sci-fi

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Distance: 0.1911

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