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Clifford D. Simak

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Premise labels used: duplicate identity, murder mystery, lost identity, alien knowledge, time travel coexistence, mythic creatures in future

Setting labels used: far future, future Earth, university setting, college campus, Wisconsin, interplanetary society, time-travel society, post-technological future, mythic Earth

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Empty Space: A Haunting

M. John Harrison · 2012 · Kefahuchi Tract

A widow, a space crew, and a posthuman investigator are drawn through overlapping times toward a mysterious cosmic anomaly.

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Premise labels: alien artifact · parallel threads · temporal convergence · identity crisis · reality instability · mystery investigation · posthuman encounter · cosmic anomaly

Setting labels: near-future Earth · far future · space colonies · interstellar space · alien megastructure · cosmic frontier

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Distance: 0.1757

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Time and Again

Clifford D. Simak · 1983

A returned space explorer carries a world-changing book no one has written yet, while rival factions pursue him across time.

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Premise labels: time travel · android rights · future book · identity crisis · alien contact · destiny

Setting labels: far future · spacefaring civilization · galactic empire · rural Wisconsin · Earth · distant planet · 61 Cygni · time-shifted future

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Distance: 0.1839

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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: 0.1850

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Doorways in the Sand

Roger Zelazny · 1976

A perpetual student is drawn into a bizarre chase for a missing alien artifact amid aliens, cops, and campus intrigue.

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Premise labels: missing artifact · interstellar conspiracy · cultural exchange · perpetual student · cat and mouse · wrongly suspected protagonist · artifact chase · stolen treasure · alien intrigue

Setting labels: near future · Earth · university campus · Australia · interstellar · post-contact · galactic federation

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Distance: 0.1884

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The Gordian Protocol

David Weber, Jacob Holo · 2019 · The Gordian Division

A history teacher pulled into alternate-timeline chaos must help decide which universe survives a looming temporal catastrophe.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · multiverse · parallel universes · historical divergence · time knot · universe survival · moral dilemma · choose worlds · research mission · memory conflict

Setting labels: alternate history · near future · future history · thirtieth century · twentieth century · twenty-first century · wartime history · parallel universes · multiverse · academic setting · university · modern America

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Distance: 0.1969

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Zima Blue and Other Stories

Alastair Reynolds · 2006

A linked SF story collection follows journalists, robots, and wanderers through far-future mysteries, art, memory, and identity.

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Premise labels: far future · art and identity · memory and self-discovery · quantum oddity · interstellar mystery · posthuman identity · journalist investigation

Setting labels: far future · deep space · Mars · alternate realities · multiverse · Earth-bound stories · post-apocalyptic world · interstellar civilization · many-worlds · quantum future · spacefaring humanity

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Distance: 0.1969

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UR

Stephen King · 2009

A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.

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Premise labels: alternate realities · parallel universes · future sight · mysterious device · literary discovery · dangerous knowledge · technology gone wrong · obsessive reading

Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered

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Distance: 0.1987

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薄雾 Mist

微风几许, 微風幾許

A memory-bound recorder joins a time-travel task force and gets pulled into dangerous missions, paradoxes, and slow-burn love.

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Premise labels: time travel · memory · mystery mission · team assignment · time correction · parallel worlds · chronological puzzle · government task force · space-time anomaly · recorded history

Setting labels: future world · time travel system · parallel universes · space-time missions · government bureau · scientific speculation · post-apocalyptic elements · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1990

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The Family Tree

Sheri S. Tepper · 1998

A detective in a collapsing city and a distant quest across future Earth turn out to be linked by a world-changing secret.

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Premise labels: eco-catastrophe · sentient nature · investigative mystery · dual timeline · future-earth reveal · civilization collapse · time-bridge mystery

Setting labels: near future · distant future · future Earth · contemporary Earth · urban setting · suburban setting · post-apocalyptic future · high fantasy realm · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1998

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The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

C.S. Lewis · 1998 · The Space Trilogy

A posthumous collection of Lewis fragments and stories exploring time, myth, space travel, and unsettling other worlds.

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Premise labels: unfinished manuscript · time travel · alternate realities · space-time breach · myth retelling · posthumous collection · Christian allegory

Setting labels: Oxford · Cambridge · Mars · Moon · ancient Greece · Troy · Othertime · alternate reality · space-age future · academic setting

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Distance: 0.2001

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A Heritage of Stars

Clifford D. Simak · 1986

In a far-future, post-technological Earth, a young scholar follows a legend of the stars and gathers unlikely companions.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · lost knowledge · civilizational collapse · mythic journey · humanity's heritage · search for origin

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · American Midwest · rural landscape · dark age · tribal society · university enclave · sparse settlements

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Distance: 0.2006

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The Graveyard Game

Kage Baker · 2005 · The Company

An immortal cyborg and a literary specialist spend centuries hunting a missing friend and uncovering a vast Company conspiracy.

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Premise labels: missing person · corporate conspiracy · immortal agents · time travel corporation · cover-up · search across centuries · future artifacts · hidden history

Setting labels: past and future · centuries-spanning · California · Hollywood · late 20th century · 24th century · near-future · alternate history · dystopian future · global scale

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Distance: 0.2017

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