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Premise labels used: foster care, identity uncertainty, protective custody, hacking team, secret organization, teen investigators, conspiracy takedown, forced alliance, recruitment trap, coming-of-age

Setting labels used: Australia, Sydney, Australia, contemporary, near-future tech, secret facility, foster home, police surveillance, computer-mediated world

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The Genius Wars

Catherine Jinks · 2009 · Genius

A teenage hacker with a new family must stop the criminal mastermind who raised him before targeted attacks destroy everything he loves.

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Premise labels: fugitive pursuer · protective return · cyber pursuit · criminal mastermind · forced confrontation · coming of age · hidden identity · targeted by enemy · hunt the villain · recovery from abuse

Setting labels: Sydney · Australia · university setting · suburban life · city setting · United States · cyberspace · online society · surveillance society

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Don't Turn Around

Michelle Gagnon · 2012 · Persefone

A teen hacker on the run joins forces with a rich-boy hacktivist to expose a deadly conspiracy targeting forgotten kids.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teen hacker · foster care survivor · off the grid · kidnapping · medical conspiracy · human experimentation · runaway teens · corporate secrecy · hacktivism · identity concealment

Setting labels: Boston · warehouse · off the grid · urban contemporary · online spaces

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Distance: 0.2282

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Whisper

Lynette Noni · 2018 · Whisper

A silent test subject in a secret facility discovers her voice may unleash a world-changing power.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret facility · imprisoned test subject · dangerous power · silence as survival · mysterious program · hidden identity · world-threatening secret · special abilities

Setting labels: secret government facility · underground facility · Sydney · Australia · clinical setting · research lab · dystopian world · hidden society

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Distance: 0.2286

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And All the Stars

Andrea K. Höst · 2012

A teen artist caught at ground zero of an alien attack must survive, adapt, and unite with other teens to fight back.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · apocalypse in progress · survival · found family · teens saving the world · body transformation · hidden threat

Setting labels: Sydney · Australia · near future · worldwide · urban setting · post-disaster cityscape · real-world Earth

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Distance: 0.2374

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The Minders

John Marrs · 2020 · Dark Future

Five people carry a nation’s secrets in their brains as hackers close in and a hidden enemy starts hunting them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: government secrets · cyberterrorism · hacker threat · human data storage · biotech security · secret keepers · unhackable minds · classified information · identity erasure · new identities

Setting labels: near future · future UK · high-tech future · cybersecurity world · semi-futuristic · dystopian future · same universe

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Zeroes

Chuck Wendig · 2015 · Zer0es

Five hackers are coerced into a secret government project and uncover a dangerous conspiracy buried inside the system.

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Premise labels: hackers-for-hire · government coercion · blackmail · secret program · misfit team · cyber-espionage · rogue AI · government conspiracy · inside job · prison-or-work ultimatum

Setting labels: present day · near future · United States · secret compound · isolated facility · the Lodge · government black site · online world · internet · cyberspace

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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow · 2008 · Little Brother

A teen hacker in near-future San Francisco fights a post-attack security state that has turned his city into a prison.

Why this is here

Premise labels: surveillance state · teen hacker · civil liberties · post-attack crackdown · government overreach · privacy vs security · digital resistance · underground network · wrongful detention · hacktivism

Setting labels: San Francisco · near future · post-9/11 · police state · United States · high school · secret prison · martial law · surveilled city · networked world

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Distance: 0.2419

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Digital Fortress

Dan Brown · 2004

An NSA cryptographer races to stop a devastating code from exposing secrets and crippling U.S. intelligence.

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Premise labels: NSA · codebreaking · cybersecurity · cryptography · data secrecy · government conspiracy · blackmail · whistleblower · digital threat · surveillance state

Setting labels: NSA facility · Spain · Seville · Tokyo · global chase · contemporary · digital age · government secrecy · international

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Red Screen

Stephen King · 2021

A detective questions a murder suspect whose confession points to a far stranger explanation than a simple killing.

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Premise labels: police interrogation · murder confession · conspiracy theory · possible alien possession · online paranoia · domestic unraveling · insidious revelation

Setting labels: modern day · contemporary · pandemic-era · internet age · connected web · real-world contemporary setting

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The Program

Suzanne Young · 2013 · The Program

In a future where teen sadness is treated as contagious, a guarded girl fights a memory-wiping system closing in on her love.

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Premise labels: teen suicide epidemic · memory erasure · involuntary treatment · surveillance state · forbidden feelings · survival under monitoring · love under threat

Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · school district · home surveillance · school surveillance · clinic · institutional control · coerced reintegration · teen monitored society

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Witch and Wizard Book One Free Preview

James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet · 2009

Two siblings are seized by a new regime and discover magical powers that could help them escape and fight back.

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Premise labels: secret powers · imprisoned siblings · totalitarian regime · missing children · resistance movement · save the parents · escape from prison · prophecy · outcast teens · magic in a dystopia

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian society · prison setting · futuristic world · secret prison · post-takeover society · alternate reality

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Quarantine

Greg Egan · 1995

A bio-enhanced PI hunts a vanished woman in a quarantined solar system and stumbles into a reality-bending quantum mystery.

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Premise labels: quarantine bubble · missing person case · private investigator · brain modification · quantum mechanics · observer effect · wave function collapse · parallel universes · near future · cyberpunk noir

Setting labels: near future · solar system quarantine · future Australia · Perth · New Hong Kong · late 21st century · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · sealed-off Earth · cyberpunk future

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Distance: 0.2450

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