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العنكبوت

Mostafa Mahmoud, مصطفى محمود

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Premise labels used: soul transmigration, life after death, immortality, human consciousness, mind powers, scientific mystery, medical mystery, hidden knowledge, body-soul separation, reincarnation question

Setting labels used: contemporary Egypt, medical setting, clinic, laboratory, urban setting, rural villa, nonlinear time, multiple lives, past lives, scientific experimental setting

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Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Premise labels: identity theft · consciousness transfer · body swap · immortality quest · forgery · metaphysical conspiracy · mad science · authenticity crisis

Setting labels: modern London · psychiatric hospital · mental asylum · secure facility · historical academic milieu · contemporary setting · speculative reality

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هناك

Ibraheem Abbas, إبراهيم عباس · 2014

A young man wakes in a strange alternate realm where near-death becomes a journey of love, lessons, and reality-bending discovery.

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Premise labels: near-death journey · alternate world · dream realm · life lessons · wish fulfillment · hidden potential · reality questioning

Setting labels: contemporary · alternate reality · dream world · time distortion · liminal space · Arabic-language setting

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موسم صيد الغزلان

Ahmed Mourad, أحمد مراد · 2017

A future-set, controversial novel follows an atheist scientist drawn into a strange experiment, desire, and unsettling questions of faith.

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Premise labels: future dystopia · scientific skepticism · existential inquiry · reincarnation · philosophical debate · sex obsession

Setting labels: far future · Egyptian setting · future Egypt · technologically advanced society · cerebral/virtual reality · dream-like reality · near-future dystopia · historical-to-future span

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

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Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Premise labels: experimental rejuvenation · cloning · identity crisis · human experimentation · ethical dilemma · body swap · immortality quest · aging · transhumanism · medical experiment · life extension · double self

Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment

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Unremembered

Jessica Brody · 2013 · Unremembered

An amnesiac teen survivor of a plane crash must uncover her identity while a strange boy claims he knows her from before.

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Premise labels: amnesia · plane crash survivor · identity mystery · memory manipulation · lost past · hidden origins · scientific conspiracy · boy from the past · trust the stranger · time-displaced romance · genetic mystery · humanity question

Setting labels: Pacific Ocean · hospital · foster home · laboratory · corporate compound · present day · future · past · time travel · contemporary world · scientific future

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False Memory

Dean Koontz · 2001

A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.

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Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat

Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world

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The Last Question

Isaac Asimov · 2007

Across eons, humanity keeps asking a supercomputer if entropy can be reversed before the universe runs out of time.

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Premise labels: entropy reversal · heat death · cosmic question · end of universe · humanity vs entropy · supercomputer query · ultimate question · existential problem · posthuman future · survival of humanity

Setting labels: near future · far future · cosmic scale · spacefaring future · posthuman future · far future Earth · deep time · universe-wide · technological civilization · transhuman setting

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مثل إيكاروس

Ahmed Khaled Towfik, أحمد خالد توفيق · 2015

A troubled man who can read the past and future becomes a target as his gift turns knowledge into a curse.

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Premise labels: forbidden knowledge · future vision · psychic insight · truth-seeking · knowledge with a price · information hazard

Setting labels: 2020 · near future · past and future · psychiatric clinic · Egypt · United States · speculative reality · dystopian reality

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Ursiderne

Nanna Foss · 2020 · Spektrum

A grieving teen is pulled into a time-travel mystery that forces her to confront a past she wants to forget.

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Premise labels: time travel · grief · loss of parent · teen ensemble · mystery · seeking answers · hidden past · return to the past

Setting labels: contemporary · past and present · multiple decades · cross-temporal · hospital setting · international travel · Thailand · time-travel world · fictional reality

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The Weight of Memories

Liu Cixin · 2016

A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.

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Premise labels: inherited memory · memory transfer · unborn child · experimental technology · medical experiment · ancestral memory · nature versus nurture · identity question

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · medical setting · womb · China · scientific speculative world

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