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Nancy Farmer

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Premise labels used: clone identity, human cloning, organ donor, coming of age, human rights, dehumanization, escape

Setting labels used: future, dystopian future, borderland, Mexico-influenced, drug empire, estate setting, desert setting, oppressive society

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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Premise labels: immortality · cloning · aging crisis · cult involvement · future humanity · human extinction · posthuman life · love and death · youth obsession · social critique

Setting labels: near future · far future · post-apocalyptic world · France · Paris · Spain · Lanzarote · Almeria · dystopian society · cloned society · deserted landscape

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Distance: 0.1749

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I Will Fear No Evil

Robert A. Heinlein · 1987

A dying billionaire’s brain transplant into a young woman’s body triggers identity, legal, and sexual chaos.

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Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · shared body · identity crisis · gender swap · life extension · immortality quest · legal identity dispute · sexual awakening · future society

Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · dystopian future · lawless areas · enclaves · armored vehicles · urban collapse

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Distance: 0.1814

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I.D.

Emma Ríos · 2016

In a red-tinted dystopian future, three strangers consider a risky body transplant that could change who they are.

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Premise labels: body transplant · brain transplant · identity crisis · body dysphoria · experimental surgery · future medicine · medical speculation · ethical dilemma · self-transformation · question of self

Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · Mars · part-terraformed Mars · advanced technology · riot-plagued society · scientific future · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1843

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The Lord of Opium

Nancy Farmer · 2013 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned teen inherits a drug empire and must choose between preserving power and transforming a damaged world.

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Premise labels: clone protagonist · drug empire · teen ruler · power vacuum · saving the world · ethical dilemma · reform mission · humanity vs property

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ecological collapse · drug cartel state · borderlands · ruined earth · contained enclave · alternate future · biotech society · isolated country · desert setting

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Distance: 0.1878

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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Premise labels: human cloning · identity crisis · ethical dilemma · on the run · mistaken identity · search for a cure · outsider status · escape from institution

Setting labels: futuristic world · not-too-distant future · laboratory setting · institution setting · outside the institute · road trip · suburban domestic setting · trailer park · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.1898

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: temporary duplicates · consciousness transfer · private investigator · illegal copying · identity crisis · soul imprinting · memory upload · one-day bodies · societal transformation · future cloning economy

Setting labels: near future · Earth · urban future · technologically transformed society · political-economic future · street-level future

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Distance: 0.1972

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Constance

Matthew FitzSimmons · 2021 · Constance

A woman wakes as her clone with missing memories and must solve her own murder in a near-future cloning conspiracy.

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Premise labels: human cloning · memory upload · identity crisis · own murder · clone investigation · immortality tech · rich-only access · personhood dispute · clone rights · conspiracy

Setting labels: near future · future America · clone clinic · corporate lab · politically divided · legal patchwork · realistic future · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1976

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Strange New World

Rachel Vincent · 2018 · Brave New Girl

Two genetically identical girls from opposite worlds uncover a cloning conspiracy and fight to expose the truth.

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Premise labels: clone identity · mistaken identity · clone rights · runaway clones · media celebrity · genetic sisterhood · social control · exposed lies · uprising

Setting labels: future society · dystopian city · clone farm · walled city · elite society · wealth divide · social media society · reality TV world · futuristic landscape

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Distance: 0.1980

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Brave New Girl

Rachel Vincent · 2017 · Brave New Girl

A cloned teen in a tightly controlled future risks everything after a forbidden connection exposes her world’s secrets.

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Premise labels: clones · genetic engineering · forbidden romance · individuality · conformity · lab-grown children · state control · secret rebellion · defective genome

Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic city · clone compound · labor division · highly monitored society · genetically engineered society · utopian facade · controlled community

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Distance: 0.2017

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Escape to Eden

Rachel McClellan · 2016 · The Original

An amnesiac teen with a clue written on her hand must flee a controlled future and uncover who she is.

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Premise labels: amnesia · escape · secret identity · altered humans · genetic manipulation · original humans · pursuit · safe haven · survival · resistance

Setting labels: dystopian future · lab · hospital · secret colony · hidden refuge · controlled society · scientific future · post-human world

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Distance: 0.2029

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A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016 · Wayfarers

An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.

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Premise labels: AI body transfer · identity search · coming of age · found family · cloning · sentient rights · self-discovery · bodily autonomy · illegal body · survival

Setting labels: spacefaring future · interstellar society · alien worlds · planet-side setting · illegal underworld · factory planet · clone facility · outpost

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Distance: 0.2032

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The Persistence of Vision

John Varley · 1978

A 1970s SF collection of linked futures, from memory transfer and time travel to an unforgettable deaf-blind commune.

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Premise labels: shared universe · future solar system · colonized planets · post-apocalyptic society · disability community · memory transfer · cloning · body modification · time travel

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · solar system · Mars · Venus · Mercury · Moon · New Mexico · Southwest United States · Native American land · commune · isolated settlement · human-colonized space · alien-influenced future

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Distance: 0.2033

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