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Premise labels used: missing parent, quest for artifact, family rescue, status loss, forced exile, coming-of-age quest, world-beyond-home, fish out of water

Setting labels used: dark world, sunless world, castle setting, tower society, underworld, icy wilderness, arctic setting, parallel world, fantasy realm, hidden realm, light-shadow cosmology, nomadic ice culture

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Gregor the Overlander Box Set

Suzanne Collins · 2009 · Underland Chronicles

An 11-year-old from New York is pulled into an underground world of prophecies, creatures, and war.

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Premise labels: underground world · hidden world · reluctant hero · prophecy quest · missing parent · family rescue · save the world · war conflict

Setting labels: urban fantasy · underworld · under-city · New York City · underground realm · alternate world · surface world · fantasy ecosystem

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Distance: 0.1769

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Realm of the Blue Mist

Amy Kim · 2021 · The Rema Chronicles

A grieving girl follows a mysterious boy through a portal into a magical other world, uncovering secrets about her father.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing parent · portal adventure · other world · mystery quest · homeward journey · destined heroine · light romance · interplanetary travel

Setting labels: Earth to other world · another planet · magical world · portal world · forest setting · mythic world · interplanetary setting · fantastical reality · parallel worlds

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Distance: 0.1794

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Daughter of Darkness

Terry Brooks · 2022 · Viridian Deep

A young half-Fae heroine must unravel her hidden past to rescue her partner from a deadly magical ransom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing memories · rescue quest · family threat · identity mystery · soul retrieval · impossible bargain · kidnapping

Setting labels: fantasy world · fae realm · human world · borderlands · hidden magic · quest road

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Distance: 0.1805

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Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1923 · Pellucidar

Back in Pellucidar, David Innes races to rescue Dian, rebuild alliances, and confront reptilian rulers in a hollow-earth war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hollow earth · inner world · rescue quest · lost love · empire building · civilization clash · surface technology in primitive world · reunion quest

Setting labels: hollow earth · inner earth · earth's core · underground world · prehistoric world · sunless sunlit world · eternal midday · land without night · Land of Awful Shadow · Pellucidar · stone age setting · lost world · prehistoric wilderness

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Distance: 0.1816

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The Dark Crystal

A.C.H. Smith, David Odell · 1982

A young outcast sets out on a perilous quest to heal a broken crystal and restore balance to his world.

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Premise labels: coming of age · quest · world healing · chosen hero · save the world · artifact quest · restoration mission · good versus evil · destiny

Setting labels: alien world · secondary world · fantasy realm · dying world · planetary setting · mythic world · ecological imbalance · castle setting · isolated valley

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Distance: 0.1829

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The Girl and the Stars

Mark Lawrence · 2020 · Book of the Ice

An outcast teen plunges beneath a frozen world and discovers a hidden society, danger, and a new place for herself.

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Premise labels: survival story · found family · outcast community · rescue mission · special powers · coming of age · tribal judgment · hidden world · underground civilization

Setting labels: ice world · frozen wasteland · subterranean world · underground caves · giant glacier · dying planet · far north · post-apocalyptic world · icy landscape

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Distance: 0.1873

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The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer · 2004 · Artemis Fowl

A kidnapped father and a goblin-tech conspiracy force a young criminal genius and his fairy enemies into an uneasy alliance.

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Premise labels: missing father · ransom demand · enemies to allies · underworld conspiracy · goblin uprising · human technology smuggling · forced partnership · rescue mission

Setting labels: arctic · Russia · underground world · subterranean world · human world · fairy world · hidden society · urban fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1888

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The Magic of Recluce

L.E. Modesitt Jr. · 1992 · The Saga of Recluce

A bored young exile must survive a rule-bound wanderjahr and learn magic in a world split between Order and Chaos.

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Premise labels: coming-of-age quest · exile quest · self-discovery · magic training · order vs chaos · misfit protagonist · wandering journey

Setting labels: fantasy world · isolated island society · ordered society · outside world · medieval fantasy world · high-concept world

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A Gathering of Gargoyles

Meredith Ann Pierce · 1998 · Darkangel Trilogy

A young heroine sets out on a riddle-led quest to save her world, her husband, and the lost guardians.

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Premise labels: quest · riddle · curse reversal · rescue mission · world-saving mission · lost guardians

Setting labels: fantasy world · otherworldly setting · moon setting · futuristic moon · desert sea · multiple kingdoms · island journey · high fantasy · mythic setting

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The Talismans of Shannara

Terry Brooks · 1999 · Heritage of Shannara

The final Heritage of Shannara book brings scattered heroes together for a last stand against the Shadowen.

Why this is here

Premise labels: quest · artifact hunt · saving the world · battle against evil · truth quest · family legacy

Setting labels: fantasy world · secondary world · Four Lands · elven kingdom · Druid keep · magical reality

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Distance: 0.1916

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Infidel

Ted Dekker · 2007 · The Lost Books

A teen Forest Guard hero risks everything to rescue his presumed-dead mother, only to face betrayal and hard choices.

Why this is here

Premise labels: quest · rescue mission · lost books · chosen one · traitor within · moral dilemma · enemy infiltration · family rescue

Setting labels: fantasy world · forest kingdom · desert · enemy city · warring factions · alternate world

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The Dragon and the George

Gordon R. Dickson · 1976 · Dragon Knight

A young academic follows his kidnapped fiancée into a fantasy world and wakes up trapped in a dragon’s body.

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Premise labels: man in dragon body · rescue quest · lost in fantasy world · astral projection mishap · quest companions · damsel rescue · fish out of water · modern man in medieval world

Setting labels: medieval England (alternate) · other world · fantasy realm · magical land · feudal society · chivalric setting · alternate reality · cross-world setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1922

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