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Premise labels used: reincarnation, life after death, afterlife, child protagonist, alien planet, return home, memory retention

Setting labels used: Earth, alien planet, interplanetary, afterlife, utopia, speculative world

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The Werewolf Principle

Clifford D. Simak · 1994

An amnesiac space traveler returns to a strange future Earth and discovers his body hides multiple minds and a buried secret.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · body-sharing · multiple minds · identity mystery · alien contact · bioengineering · shapeshifting · future Earth · space return · humanity question

Setting labels: future Earth · deep space · alien planet · interstellar future · flying houses · smart home · post-hibernation future · space-age society

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Distance: 0.1614

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Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy: Books 1-3

Patrick Ness · 2018 · Chaos Walking

In a thought-broadcasting colony world, a teen boy and a stranded girl are pulled into war, secrets, and uneasy alliances.

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Premise labels: telepathy · thought-reading · alien encounter · human colony · survival quest · war and power · fleeing protagonists · moral conflict · coming of age · peace negotiation

Setting labels: alien planet · new colony · dystopian future · frontier settlement · war zone · post-Earth migration · speculative world

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Distance: 0.1659

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The Forever Life

Craig Robertson · 2016 · The Forever

An immortal astronaut in an android body must scout alien worlds to find humanity a new home before Earth is lost.

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Premise labels: apocalypse prevention · last-chance mission · human resettlement · android protagonist · consciousness transfer · interstellar scouting · lonely voyage · AI companion · save humanity · space exploration

Setting labels: future Earth · interstellar space · alien worlds · distant planets · humanity in crisis · far-future · solar system · spacefaring future · alternate science-fiction reality

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Distance: 0.1670

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Downward to the Earth

Robert Silverberg · 1976

A remorseful former colonial administrator returns to an alien jungle world to seek redemption and confront its mysteries.

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Premise labels: return to alien world · colonial return · redemption quest · postcolonial encounter · alien intelligences

Setting labels: alien planet · jungle planet · future Earth · former colony · decolonized world · mystical wilderness · industrial remnants

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Distance: 0.1676

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The Skinner

Neal Asher · 2005 · Spatterjay

On a lethal ocean world, an undead pursuer and other travelers collide amid an immortality virus, aliens, and escalating revenge.

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Premise labels: immortality virus · hostile planet · manhunt · vengeance quest · alien ecology · dead protagonist

Setting labels: ocean planet · water world · off-world frontier · far future · interstellar civilization · planetary border zone · biologically hostile ecosystem

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Distance: 0.1694

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Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo

Albert Espinosa · 2010

A grieving man with a memory-reading gift faces a sleepless future, an alien mystery, and a life-changing connection.

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Premise labels: sleepless future · memory-reading gift · secret-memory reveal · first extraterrestrial · grief aftermath · forbidden connection · life after death

Setting labels: future setting · dystopian setting · world without sleep · earth · afterlife · multiple lives · parallel worlds · reincarnation

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Distance: 0.1698

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Douglas Adams · 1984 · The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent returns to a strangely intact Earth, where a new romance and a cosmic mystery lead him back into space.

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Premise labels: return home · lost Earth · mystery quest · romantic pursuit · final message · dolphin disappearance · search for meaning · cosmic coincidence · space travel · unlikely reunion

Setting labels: Earth · space · interplanetary travel · interstellar travel · reconstructed Earth · alternate Earth · galaxy · universe

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Distance: 0.1705

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The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley · 1967

An amnesiac convict lands on a brutal prison planet where status comes from crime, and survival means uncovering the truth.

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Premise labels: prison planet · memory wipe · criminal society · status hierarchy · survival quest · escape mission · return to Earth · social inversion · evil-worship society

Setting labels: future Earth · prison planet · alien planet · Omega · dystopian society · utopian Earth · penal colony · habitable planet

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Distance: 0.1714

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L'Empire des anges

Bernard Werber · 2000 · Cycle des Anges

A newly dead man becomes an angel tasked with guiding three human lives while learning the rules of the afterlife.

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Premise labels: afterlife · guardian angel · free will · guidance mission · soul judgment · reincarnation

Setting labels: heaven · afterlife · earth · parallel worlds · spiritual realm · postmortem world

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Distance: 0.1724

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Star Splitter

Matthew J. Kirby · 2023

A teen arrives on a ruined alien world and must survive a crash, a duplicate self, and a mystery gone wrong.

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Premise labels: teleportation · body transfer · body printing · duplicate self · planetary expedition · crash survival · space mystery · post-extinction world · family reunion

Setting labels: deep space · space station · spaceship · alien planet · desolate planet · post-extinction world · lightyears from Earth · future Earth · planetary research mission · off-world colony

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Distance: 0.1733

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Backwards

Rob Grant · 1996 · Red Dwarf

A Red Dwarf crew adventure in a backwards-ticking universe, where survival, identity, and time itself get scrambled.

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Premise labels: backwards time · alternate universe · lost in space · rescue mission · time reversal · space survival

Setting labels: space · future · Earth · alternate universe · backwards world · science-fantasy reality · multiple universes

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Distance: 0.1736

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Black Sun Rising

C.S. Friedman · 1991 · The Coldfire Trilogy

On a fear-shaping alien world, a priest joins an uneasy party to reclaim a sorceress’s stolen mind and power.

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Premise labels: alien planet · memory loss · power restoration · forced alliance · demon hunt · quest · anti-hero teamup · humanity on world

Setting labels: alien planet · far future · colonized world · post-collapse · medieval level society · earth colony · seismically active world · fantasy world · dark forest · gothic atmosphere · unusual ecology · planetary magic

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Distance: 0.1746

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