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Tone labels used: bizarre, strange, touching, emotional, heartbreaking, creepy, tense, puzzling, thought-provoking, bittersweet, smart, wonderfully strange

Premise labels used: alternate realities, parallel worlds, time loop, reality shift, existential mystery, child genius, science problem-solving, family survival, birthday crisis, universe mystery

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Self-Portrait with Nothing

Aimee Pokwatka · 2022

An adopted forensic anthropologist is pulled into her missing birth mother’s art mystery, where portraits may open worlds.

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Tone labels: weird · strange · quirky · thought-provoking · emotional · heartfelt · uneasy · atmospheric · humorous · sweet · bitterweet · tense

Premise labels: parallel universes · doppelgangers · missing mother · adoption search · art mystery · inheritance mystery · alternate selves · search for identity

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Familiar

J. Robert Lennon · 2012

A grieving mother slips into a near-identical life where her dead son is alive and everything feels unsettlingly familiar.

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Tone labels: haunting · enigmatic · disturbing · creepy · sad · bleak · unsettling · mysterious · tense · thought-provoking

Premise labels: alternate life · parallel universe · identity crisis · second chance · psychological disruption · family in crisis · parenthood · memory conflict

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Distance: 0.1585

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Life Is Strange Vol. 2: Waves

Emma Vieceli · 2019 · Life is Strange Comics

A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.

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Tone labels: emotional · angsty · melancholic · wistful · bittersweet · quiet · dreamy · heartbreaking · tender · atmospheric

Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · parallel timelines · multiple realities · powers · new mystery · identity crisis · displaced protagonist · missing life

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The Persistence of Vision

John Varley · 1978

A 1970s SF collection of linked futures, from memory transfer and time travel to an unforgettable deaf-blind commune.

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Tone labels: wonder · disturbing · beautiful · thought-provoking · weird · original · creepy · hopeful · emotional · romantic · fascinating · uneasy

Premise labels: shared universe · future solar system · colonized planets · post-apocalyptic society · disability community · memory transfer · cloning · body modification · time travel

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

John Chu · 2026

A maintainer must repair a destabilizing multiverse while untangling family trauma, loyalty, and an abusive sibling.

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Tone labels: quirky · wacky · unhinged · earnest · emotional · chaotic · strange · intimate · cerebral

Premise labels: universe maintenance · multiverse repair · family crisis · hidden infrastructure · physics instability · generational trauma · sibling conflict · family mystery · impossible choice

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Distance: 0.1718

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The Adjacent

Christopher Priest · 2013

In a climate-ravaged future Britain, a grieving photographer is pulled into a mystery that echoes across wars, worlds, and identities.

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Tone labels: dreamlike · mysterious · enigmatic · melancholic · dour · uncanny · disturbing · beautiful · confounding · elliptical · intense · absorbing · frustrating · disorienting · lyrical

Premise labels: parallel worlds · alternate realities · adjacent universes · quantum weapon · disappeared wife · post-disaster Britain · historical echoes · search for truth · love story · mystery puzzle

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Distance: 0.1754

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Calculated Risks

Seanan McGuire · 2021 · InCryptid

Stranded in a strange dimension and erased from her family’s memories, Sarah must win back trust and find a way home.

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Tone labels: witty · emotionally intense · heartbreaking · tense · weird · humorous · nerdy · angsty · bittersweet · high-stakes

Premise labels: alternate dimension · memory loss · found family · survival quest · homeward journey · family trust · math problem · telepathic species · ethical telepathy · identity crisis

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বানিয়ালুলু

Shibabrata Barman · 2019

An 11-story Bangla speculative collection where hidden nations, parallel worlds, and strange paradoxes keep rewriting reality.

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Tone labels: astonishing · wonderstruck · mind-bending · mysterious · uncanny · thought-provoking · playful · surreal · eerie · bewildering · intriguing · smart · beautifully strange

Premise labels: hidden country · mystery country · alternate reality · parallel worlds · time travel · robot law · stolen-before-written poem · identity erasure · information control · genetic information · art across universes · dream reality · scientific paradox

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Infinite

Brian Freeman · 2021

A grieving man is pulled into parallel lives and a deadly confrontation with his own double.

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Tone labels: twisty · mind-bending · dark · mysterious · uncanny · horrifying · thrilling · emotional · bizarre · tense · chilling · deliciously twisted

Premise labels: parallel universes · doppelgänger · second chances · grief after loss · experimental therapy · alternate selves · identity crisis · reality bending · many worlds theory

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Meet Me in Another Life

Catriona Silvey · 2021

Two strangers keep meeting across many lives in changing roles, and must uncover why their fates are entwined.

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Tone labels: bittersweet · emotional · melancholy · thought-provoking · profound · whimsical · mysterious · devastating · tender · dreamy · sad · angsty · quirky

Premise labels: fated encounter · reincarnation loop · multiple lives · parallel lives · destined to meet · repeat encounters · mystery attachment · impossible choice

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Distance: 0.1774

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White Space

Ilsa J. Bick · 2014 · Dark Passages

A teen with reality-blurring blinks is pulled into a terrifying book-world where identities, authorship, and existence unravel.

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Tone labels: creepy · dark · eerie · disturbing · gory · brutal · tense · surreal · mind-bending · psychological · mysterious · claustrophobic · haunting

Premise labels: alternate realities · book world · storyworld collision · characters come alive · world between lines · reality blur · parallel universes · identity uncertainty · hidden purpose · survival mystery

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Projekt Riese

Remigiusz Mróz · 2022 · Projekt Riese

Tourists trapped in Nazi-era tunnels emerge into a broken world and must survive shifting realities and a global catastrophe.

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Tone labels: dark · mysterious · tense · urgent · surreal · emotional · creepy · mind-bending

Premise labels: tunnel disaster · survival story · alternate realities · parallel timelines · pandemic outbreak · world collapse · hidden history · time travel

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1783

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