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Premise labels used: hidden world, secret organization, alternate reality, world maintenance, fixer mission, sleep problem, dream control, parallel worlds, behind-the-scenes world, routine mission

Setting labels used: Highland Park, New Jersey, parallel world, alternate dimension, secret workplace, bureaucratic fantasy, world behind the world, industrialized fantasy realm, corporate fantasy

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Cover of The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue by Trevor Alan Foris

The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

Trevor Alan Foris · The Octunnumi Fosbit Files

Two teen twin operatives race across hidden worlds to stop a vengeful former ally before their universe unravels.

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Premise labels: secret world · hidden worlds · parallel worlds · world-hopping · portal access · magic system · protective order · good-versus-bad conflict · rescue mission · revenge threat · missing children · unfinished business · multiple universes · mythic travel · time travel · access points

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel worlds · multiverse · fantasy realms · mythic worlds · fairy tale worlds · legendary worlds · time periods · crumbling warehouse · worlds within paintings · steampunk world · secret society world · Earth-adjacent reality

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Distance: 0.1831

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Cover of The Quiet Room by Terry Miles

The Quiet Room

Terry Miles · 2023 · Rabbits

A player trapped in a Rabbits-less dimension teams with a new pawn to uncover a hidden game and save reality.

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Premise labels: alternate reality game · hidden game · multiverse · parallel worlds · dimension hopping · conspiracy · reality-bending · world-saving quest · hidden clues · coincidence patterns

Setting labels: multiverse · alternate dimension · dimensional stream · modern world · real-world setting · theme park world · liminal spaces · secret underground game world

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Distance: 0.2034

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Bintang

Tere Liye · 2017 · Bumi

A teen trio with hidden powers returns to a parallel world on a dangerous mission that ends in a shocking cliffhanger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret powers · parallel worlds · mission to save worlds · high-stakes quest · team adventure · prevent disaster · search mission · hidden truth · power struggle · rival factions

Setting labels: parallel world · underworld · hidden cities · school setting · fantasy realm · high-tech world · subterranean world · futuristic setting · multiple clans

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Distance: 0.2042

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Cover of Anchored by Bridget E. Baker

Anchored

Bridget E. Baker · 2021 · Anchored

A runaway teen wakes between Earth and a hidden world, where her secret power could save—or doom—both realities.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dual worlds · alternate reality · hidden power · secret identity · runaway · missing past · dream world · worlds colliding · prophecy · chosen one · interworld connection · two-life protagonist

Setting labels: Earth · Terra · alternate reality · contemporary setting · fantasy realm · parallel worlds · urban fantasy setting · mythic world

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Distance: 0.2068

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Cover of Nasterea by Petra Stehlíková

Nasterea

Petra Stehlíková · 2021 · Naslouchač

A young girl returns to a dark underground world, uncovering buried truths, rising threats, and more questions than answers.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret world · hidden world · truth quest · survival quest · mystery solving · journey to another side · post-collapse mystery

Setting labels: dark world · underground · other side · mountain setting · dystopian setting · fictional world · post-collapse world

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Distance: 0.2116

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Cover of Gregor the Overlander Box Set by Suzanne Collins

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.

Why this is here

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: 0.2119

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Cover of The Wild Storm, Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis

The Wild Storm, Vol. 1

Warren Ellis · 2017 · The Wild Storm

A transhuman engineer’s rescue of a falling man ignites a slow-burn web of secret agencies, aliens, and hidden power.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret organizations · global conspiracy · covert power struggle · rebooted universe · transhuman protagonist · corporate espionage · spy thriller · alien presence · future tech

Setting labels: New York City · parallel Earth · alternate universe · near future · shadow government world · spacefaring setting · secret world · corporate future · covert operations · post-90s rebooted continuity

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Cover of The Deceivers by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Deceivers

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2021 · The Greystone Secrets

Trapped in a dangerous mirror world, four kids race to decode clues, find allies, and rescue their missing moms.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate world · parallel world · mirror world · rescue mission · missing parent · family quest · truth vs lies · secret codes · doppelgangers · trust no one

Setting labels: alternate dimension · parallel universe · mirror world · closed setting · house setting · other world · dystopian society · totalitarian regime · illegal truth · family home

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Distance: 0.2146

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Cover of Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick

Adjustment Team

Philip K. Dick

A man glimpses a hidden force quietly adjusting reality, then must decide what to believe and what to forget.

Why this is here

Premise labels: reality manipulation · hidden forces · bureaucratic control · free will · destiny · secret organization · alternate reality

Setting labels: office world · suburban home · alternate reality · bureaucratic underworld · dystopian reality

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Distance: 0.2173

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Cover of Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker

Black: The Birth of Evil

Ted Dekker · 2005 · The Circle

A man shuttling between two realities must stop a world-ending threat while unsure which world is real.

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Premise labels: dual reality · dream world · parallel worlds · save the world · apocalyptic threat · good vs evil · allegory

Setting labels: Denver · alternate world · future world · black forest · colored forest · utopian society · apocalyptic world · parallel universe · fantasy landscape

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Distance: 0.2185

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Cover of The Silent Tower by Barbara Hambly

The Silent Tower

Barbara Hambly · 2011 · Windrose Chronicles

A kidnapped programmer and an eccentric mage must cross worlds to stop a hidden force tearing reality apart.

Why this is here

Premise labels: interdimensional portal · world-crossing · wizard and programmer · magic and technology · murder mystery · world-saving quest · kidnapped heroine · magical conspiracy · cross-world alliance

Setting labels: alternate world · parallel worlds · interdimensional · magic world · industrializing society · preindustrial society · contemporary Earth · 1980s technology · urban setting · fantasy realm

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2198

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Cover of Matahari by Tere Liye

Matahari

Tere Liye · 2016 · Bumi

Three teen friends pursue a hidden underground civilization, where a genius’s invention leads them into bigger dangers.

Why this is here

Premise labels: parallel worlds · mysterious realm · quest for hidden world · genius inventor · superpowered trio · friendship quest · hidden civilization · underworld journey · secret origin · identity search

Setting labels: parallel universe · subterranean world · underground civilization · fictional world · school setting · urban school life · fantasy realm

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2204

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