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Martin MacInnes

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Premise labels used: missing person, investigation, disappearance, search for truth, existential inquiry

Setting labels used: South American summer, unnamed South American country, unnamed South American city, rainforest interior, urban-to-jungle progression, corporate workplace, natural world

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Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

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Premise labels: missing persons · cold case · disappearance · search for missing girls · childhood friends · end of the world · world in collapse · investigation · unsolved mystery

Setting labels: alternate world · collapsing world · post-revolutionary world · post-soviet feeling · urban and coastal settings · global setting · fictional continent · dying planet · apocalyptic setting · cold climate

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Distance: 0.2356

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In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant

Jules Verne · 2006 · Capitaine Nemo

A damaged message in a bottle sends a rescue party on a sweeping search for a missing captain across the southern world.

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Premise labels: missing person · message in a bottle · rescue quest · worldwide search · shipwreck survival · castaway search · parallel search · family quest

Setting labels: 19th century · global journey · South America · Patagonia · Australia · New Zealand · Scotland · Indian Ocean · Pacific Ocean · Southern Hemisphere · ocean travel · colonial world · travelogue setting

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Distance: 0.2556

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The Haunted Mesa

Louis L'Amour · 1988

A paranormal investigator searches for a missing friend in the Southwest and stumbles into a portal-linked ancient mystery.

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Premise labels: missing person · parallel worlds · alternate dimension · ancient mystery · paranormal investigation · rescue mission · lost tribe · portal mystery

Setting labels: American Southwest · Four Corners · mesa · desert · modern era · cliff dwellings · Native lands · alternate world

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Distance: 0.2599

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Song of Kali

Dan Simmons · 1989

A magazine writer’s trip to Calcutta for a missing poet turns into a suffocating descent into cult terror and dread.

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Premise labels: missing person · resurrected poet · journalism assignment · foreign assignment · death cult · forbidden cult · ritual sacrifice · investigation · cultural descent · journey into darkness

Setting labels: Calcutta · India · 1970s · urban decay · slums · oppressive heat · crowded city · monsoon season · postcolonial setting · miasmic city · fictionalized India

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Distance: 0.2647

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape

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Distance: 0.2649

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The Twilight Children

Gilbert Hernández · 2016

A mysterious orb and an enigmatic woman upend a seaside village, drawing in outsiders and unsettling local lives.

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Premise labels: mysterious object · small-town disruption · alien visitation · child blindness · government investigation · magical realism · mystery

Setting labels: remote coastal village · Latin American village · seaside town · small town · contemporary setting · speculative reality · tropical setting

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Distance: 0.2662

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Infinity Beach

Jack McDevitt · 2000

A future investigator hunts her missing clone-sister and uncovers a buried first-contact secret among the stars.

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Premise labels: first contact · missing person · cover-up · investigation · alien intelligence · search for truth · lost expedition · clone mystery

Setting labels: far future · colonized worlds · interstellar society · spacefaring civilization · terraforming · colony planet · human expansion · stagnant future · distant future · off-world

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Distance: 0.2669

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Scarlet

Marissa Meyer · 2012 · The Lunar Chronicles

A fugitive cyborg and a girl hunting her missing grandmother are pulled into a high-stakes, fairy-tale-inflected chase.

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Premise labels: missing person · rescue quest · fugitive on the run · interwoven storylines · retelling · forbidden attraction · mystery search

Setting labels: France · Paris · New Beijing · space · future Earth · moon · post-apocalyptic world · farm

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Distance: 0.2670

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The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman

Molly Lynch · 2023

When mothers begin vanishing worldwide, one anxious mother’s disappearance exposes a family and planet in crisis.

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Premise labels: missing mothers · maternal disappearance · ecological collapse · climate anxiety · motherhood crisis · marriage under strain · family search · nature pull · mystery of disappearance · metamorphosis

Setting labels: Michigan · Montreal · contemporary · global · ecological collapse · dying world · Anthropocene · American setting · forest · home · urban-rural edge · apocalyptic present

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Distance: 0.2678

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Colonyside

Michael Mammay · 2020 · Planetside

A disgraced retired colonel takes a missing-person case on a hostile colony world and stumbles into a bigger conspiracy.

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Premise labels: missing person case · retired investigator · reluctant assignment · corporate intrigue · colonization conflict · alien relations · conspiracy · political obstruction · dangerous inquiry

Setting labels: colonized planet · jungle planet · dome settlements · remote colony · frontier world · spacefaring future · alien planet · military colony · corporate colony · environmentally hostile planet

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Distance: 0.2682

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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Angela Carter · 1986

A clerk is sent to stop a mad scientist whose machines turn desire into reality and shatter a city’s order.

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Premise labels: reality war · desire machine · quest narrative · mad scientist · against unreality · love quest · identity quest · rationality vs chaos

Setting labels: unnamed South American city · unnamed South American country · dreamlike reality · alternative reality · war-torn city

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Distance: 0.2706

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Dark Blue Rising

Teri Terry · 2020 · The Circle Trilogy

A secluded teen’s world collapses when she learns her mother was lying about everything, and the sea may hold the answers.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · kidnapped child · family secret · search for truth · identity mystery · coming-of-age under pressure · forced relocation · conspiracy mystery · genetic secret · water connection

Setting labels: near future · real world · sea setting · oceanic setting · swim camp · summer school · mobile lifestyle · isolated life

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Distance: 0.2710

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