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Premise labels used: origin story, hidden past, special animal companion, pandemic crisis, parallel world, journey quest, bonding power

Setting labels used: parallel world, world of clans, technologically advanced society, pandemic setting, post-evacuation landscape, isolated city, walled city, forest journey

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Annelie Wendeberg · 2018 · 1/2986

A suicidal teen in a ruined future is offered an apprenticeship that could help save humanity—or force her to kill to survive.

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Premise labels: survival quest · post-pandemic world · apprenticeship · chosen opportunity · secret history · end-of-world mystery · climate catastrophe · kill or survive

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · future Earth · mountain communities · small villages · isolated settlements · poisoned lowlands · rural survival · high technology pockets · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath

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Distance: 0.1777

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Sweet Tooth Compendium

Jeff Lemire · 2021 · Sweet Tooth

A boy with deer antlers leaves his hidden home after tragedy and enters a brutal world of plague, hybrids, and secrets.

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Premise labels: plague outbreak · human-animal hybrids · survival journey · sanctuary quest · post-collapse world · found family · road trip · mystery plague

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · pandemic aftermath · woods cabin · forest isolation · America · alternative timeline · dystopian future · nature returning

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Distance: 0.1879

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The Citadel of Forgotten Myths

Michael Moorcock · 2022 · The Elric Saga

Elric and Moonglum journey through a parallel world to uncover the origins of Elric’s people and their dragons.

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Premise labels: quest for origins · lost history · sword-bound antihero · dying empire · multiverse travel · prequel narrative · return journey

Setting labels: fantasy multiverse · parallel world · World Below · remnant empire · ancient civilization · cosmic balance · egg-shaped world

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Distance: 0.1897

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Wakers

Orson Scott Card · 2022 · The Side Step Trilogy

A clone teen with the power to jump realities wakes alone on abandoned Earth and must solve why he was created.

Why this is here

Premise labels: clone awakening · alternate realities · side-stepping · post-apocalypse · last survivor · survival quest · save humanity · mystery of origin · paired protagonists · odd powers

Setting labels: abandoned Earth · post-apocalyptic wasteland · cloning facility · empty town · parallel worlds · alternate timelines · future Earth · near-future

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Distance: 0.1911

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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 2013 · Under the Never Sky

Reunited after months apart, Aria and Perry must fight tribal distrust, storm danger, and divided loyalties to survive.

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Premise labels: reunion romance · survival quest · tribe leadership · storm threat · forbidden love · safe haven search · blackmailed mission · outsider integration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · tribal society · pods · domed society · outsider world · storm-ravaged landscape · alternate world

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Distance: 0.1915

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Gleanings

Neal Shusterman, David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Joelle Shusterman, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, Sofía Lapuente · 2022 · Arc of a Scythe

A short-story anthology returns to the Scythedom across its past, present, and future, revealing backstories and new angles.

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Premise labels: world expansion · origin stories · backstories · new characters · familiar characters · future glimpse · supplemental tales · world revisit

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-death society · immortal society · Scythedom · Mars · space settlement · multiple continents · multiple regions · future timeline · world-building

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Distance: 0.1947

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Savage City

L. Penelope · 2021 · The Bliss Wars

After dying, a lonely woman wakes in a war-torn parallel city where she must pose as a missing princess to survive.

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Premise labels: portal fantasy · parallel world · mistaken identity · fake princess · shifter clans · war between factions · forbidden romance · captivity · survival · royalty · multiverse

Setting labels: parallel Earth · alternate San Francisco · post-apocalyptic city · dystopian world · multiverse · fantasy city · warring clans · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1948

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The Naming Song

Jedediah Berry · 2024

In a post-word world, an unnamed courier delivers new names while fleeing danger and searching for her sister.

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Premise labels: lost language · naming power · world restoration · identity quest · revolutionary change · outsider protagonist · search for sister · delivery mission · unnamed protagonist · word magic

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · future world · train setting · mobile world · borderlands · ghosts · monsters · dream realm · unnamed spaces · named territory · dystopian society · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1953

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Blame!, Vol. 1

Tsutomu Nihei · 2005 · Blame! [ブラム!]

A silent wanderer crosses a colossal cyberpunk megastructure, fighting machines and uncovering a hidden human future.

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Premise labels: mysterious quest · artifact search · survival journey · megastructure exploration · silent protagonist · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · cyberpunk · megacity · labyrinthine structure · industrial ruins · dystopian future · vertical city · biomechanical world

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Distance: 0.1958

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Matahari Minor

Tere Liye · 2022 · Bumi

Seli follows recurring dream messages into a dangerous parallel clan, racing to uncover a hidden truth.

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Premise labels: dream message · missing friend · parallel world · rescue mission · mystery quest · new clan · technology mystery · storm powers

Setting labels: parallel world · clan society · new clan · dark forest · night horror · school life · distant timeline · technological fantasy

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Distance: 0.1976

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The Claw of the Conciliator

Gene Wolfe · 1981 · The Book of the New Sun

An exiled executioner continues through a far-future, myth-laced world with a mysterious relic and a story full of hidden clues.

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Premise labels: exiled journey · artifact quest · far future · quest narrative · post-apocalyptic future · hidden history · memory puzzle · journey north

Setting labels: far future · dying earth · decadent civilization · post-apocalyptic world · city-state · subterranean spaces · ruined city · ancient world

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Distance: 0.1980

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The Memory Theater

Karin Tidbeck · 2021

Two young companions flee a cruel timeless realm and travel across worlds to win back a stolen name and their freedom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: parallel world · escape quest · true name quest · captivity escape · multiverse journey · storytelling power · theater magic

Setting labels: parallel world · alternate dimension · timeless realm · crossroads between worlds · World War II Sweden · real world overlay · mythic landscape · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.1991

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