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Premise labels used: 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 used: Sydney, Australia, university setting, suburban life, city setting, United States, cyberspace, online society, surveillance society

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Cover of Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks

Genius Squad

Catherine Jinks · 2008 · Genius

A sheltered teen genius in foster care joins a secret hacker squad, but the offer may be another trap.

Why this is here

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

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

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After Death

Dean Koontz · 2023

A dead security chief returns with uncanny digital powers and must protect a mother and son while killers close in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: resurrection · superhuman ability · digital access · good vs evil · protective mission · escape pursuit · government conspiracy · gang threat · assassin chase · cyberpower

Setting labels: Los Angeles · Beverly Hills · South Central · Rancho Santa Fe · research facility · secret laboratory · contemporary · urban · wealthy enclave · street-level crime · digital world

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The Girl in the Box: Books 1-3

Robert J. Crane · 2014 · The Girl in the Box/Out of the Box Universe

A sheltered teen discovers hidden powers and a secret metahuman world while hunted by dangerous factions.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret powers · abused teen · escaped captivity · metahuman world · hunted heroine · captor pursuit · hidden organizations · coming of age

Setting labels: contemporary world · hidden supernatural world · secret metahuman society · upper midwest · shadow organizations

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Vanguard

Karina Halle · 2026

A poisoned spy infiltrates a powerful enhanced super-soldier’s circle and falls for the one man she can’t kill.

Why this is here

Premise labels: assassin spy · super soldier · deadly kiss · spy infiltration · enhanced human · secret identity · corrupt corporation · government corruption · hero or weapon

Setting labels: near future · post-dystopian · 2040 · London · New York City · near-future America · cyberpunk aesthetic · corporate-controlled society · technologically advanced world

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson · 1987 · Sprawl

In a cyberpunk future, tangled lives, fake identities, and an AI-driven conspiracy pull several outsiders toward collision.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cyberpunk thriller · corporate espionage · cyberspace · organized crime · AI plot · identity deception · kidnapping plot

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberspace · globalized world · urban future · Sprawl · London · Japan · New Jersey

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Terms of Use

Scott Allan Morrison · 2016

After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · corporate conspiracy · on the run · wrongly accused · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · election interference · hunted protagonist · cover-up · data exploitation

Setting labels: Silicon Valley · contemporary setting · near-future setting · social media world · digital society · international intrigue · China expansion · internet culture · corporate setting

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Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega Rising

Joshua Dysart · 2013 · Harbinger (2012)

A troubled teen psychic is hunted, recruited into a secret power network, and pushed toward a world-changing conflict.

Why this is here

Premise labels: superpowered teenager · psychic powers · government pursuit · secret school · secret network · recruitment offer · destiny burden · power with a price · fugitive hero

Setting labels: secret school · secret organization · hidden psychic society · real-world-feeling setting · superhero universe · alternate-reality continuity · urban setting

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Scion

James Islington · 2026

A genetically enhanced assassin gets an unexpected protection job in a brutal cyberpunk future full of secrets and danger.

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Premise labels: assassin · bodyguard job · contract killing · protective mission · mysterious client · immortal elite · wealth inequality · corporate power · cyberpunk future

Setting labels: cyberpunk world · dystopian future · near-future · megacity · immortal society · corporate-controlled world

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The Quantum Thief

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2010 · Jean le Flambeur

An amnesiac master thief is dragged into a Mars heist where memory, identity, and time itself are the real prizes.

Why this is here

Premise labels: master thief · memory recovery · prison break · heist mission · mystery investigation · identity recovery · mind theft · cat-and-mouse chase · post-singularity society

Setting labels: Mars · solar system future · far future · post-singularity · posthuman future · moving city · mobile city · virtual prison · digital world · alternative reality · space society · ubiquitous encryption · memory-mediated society · privacy-focused society

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Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Ties That Bind

Kelly Thompson, Adam Hughes · 2021 · Black Widow (2020)

Black Widow wakes into a perfect suburban life with no memory, forcing allies to uncover a dangerous truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · brainwashing · false identity · secret life · domestic facade · missing heroine · spy thriller · hero rescue · hidden conspiracy · revenge plot

Setting labels: San Francisco · suburbs · contemporary · Marvel Universe · spy world · superhero world · urban action

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Release Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2026 · Shatter Me: The New Republic

A guarded assassin and a reckless believer are forced into alliance in a surveillance-state rebellion, while old enemies watch.

Why this is here

Premise labels: revenge quest · rescue mission · surveillance state · enemy ally · assassin romance · post-collapse world · trusted enemy

Setting labels: dystopian world · surveillance state · island setting · post-revolution · near-future · shared universe

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ZERO

Marc Elsberg, Marcus Rafelsberger · 2014

A skeptical journalist is pulled into a hunt for a hacker movement while uncovering a data platform that can shape lives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: data surveillance · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · digital control · whistleblower hunt · activist resistance · big data · self-tracking · predictive analytics · reputation scoring

Setting labels: London · Vienna · New York · contemporary · near future · digital world · urban surveillance · globally networked society

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Born of Fire

Sherrilyn Kenyon · 2009 · The League: Nemesis Rising

A feared fugitive and a bounty hunter collide in a high-stakes chase that turns into trust, betrayal, and romance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: bounty hunter · fugitive · tortured hero · wrongful accusation · family duty · hunt and capture · run for survival · forbidden trust · enemies to lovers · hidden evidence

Setting labels: future universe · outer space · multiple planets · space travel · interstellar society · alien species · futuristic world · criminal underworld · law enforcement · science fiction setting

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Der Himmel wird beben

Lena Kiefer · 2019 · Ophelia Scale

A death-sentenced teen is forced to spy on her former allies, risking love, loyalty, and her own truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: death sentence · forced alliance · double agent · spy mission · love versus loyalty · resistance infiltration · moral dilemma · identity conflict

Setting labels: dystopian world · future society · tech-driven world · rebel vs regime · imprisonment setting · government surveillance

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Cover of Venom: Lethal Protector by David Michelinie

Venom: Lethal Protector

David Michelinie · 1995 · Venom: Lethal Protector (Collected Editions)

Venom heads to San Francisco to start over, but corporate enemies, Spider-Man, and new symbiotes complicate his reinvention.

Why this is here

Premise labels: anti-hero redemption · urban protector · protect the innocent · lone vigilante · public menace to hero · new beginning · manhunt · symbiote threat

Setting labels: San Francisco · underground city · urban setting · 90s setting · Earth-based · hidden community · corporate development conflict · homeless community

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Cover of Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-error Processor by Masamune Shirow

Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-error Processor

Masamune Shirow · 2007 · 攻殻機動隊 The Ghost in the Shell

A near-future cyberpunk police team tackles scattered high-tech crimes in a loose set of case-driven stories.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cybercrime investigation · counterterrorism · police team · case files · futuristic crime · cyborg law enforcement · undercover operations · hacker pursuit

Setting labels: near future · 21st century · cybernetic society · technoscape · futuristic Japan · dystopian future · urban crime setting · virtual crime · high-tech world

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Cover of Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Renegades

Marissa Meyer · 2017 · Renegades

A revenge-driven villain infiltrates a superhero order, only to question loyalty, justice, and her growing feelings.

Why this is here

Premise labels: superhero rivalry · villain infiltration · secret identity · revenge mission · moral ambiguity · opposing sides · hidden allegiance

Setting labels: futuristic world · dystopian city · post-anarchy society · superpowered society · urban setting · underground hideout

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The Obake Code

Makana Yamamoto · 2026

A bored cyberpunk hacker is blackmailed into one last space-station heist that drags her into her own past.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hacker protagonist · one last job · forced heist · blackmail · corrupt politician · crime syndicate · cybernetic enhancement · deteriorating mod · identity crisis · found family · first love · conspiracy

Setting labels: space station · future setting · cyberpunk future · queer-normative world · multicultural setting · diaspora setting · virtual world · cyberspace · deep web · corporate dystopia · organized-crime underworld · gentrifying city-like station

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Untouched

Robert J. Crane · 2012 · The Girl in the Box

Haunted and hunted, a sarcastic teen metahuman faces a city-threatening enemy while searching for answers about her mother.

Why this is here

Premise labels: search for missing mother · powered protagonist · metahuman conflict · secret organization · city-level threat · haunted by the past · forced allegiance · new enemy · training and recruitment

Setting labels: urban setting · contemporary setting · school/campus setting · compound setting · secret facility · modern world · superpowered world · government organization

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Weapon

Lynette Noni · 2019 · Whisper

A fugitive heroine races to uncover her past, survive betrayal, and stop a power-hungry scientist in a twisty finale.

Why this is here

Premise labels: escape and refuge · save the world · truth discovery · memory recovery · hidden identity · betrayal · revenge · trust no one · power awakening · rebel sanctuary

Setting labels: Sydney · Australia · ferry setting · amusement park setting · catacombs · underground refuge · futuristic dystopia · imprisonment setting · rebel base

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Cover of The Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 3: No Escape by Dan Slott

The Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 3: No Escape

Dan Slott, Giuseppe Camuncoli · 2015 · The Superior Spider-Man (2013)

Otto Octavius, in Spider-Man’s body, turns a prison execution into a brutal test of who gets to be hero.

Why this is here

Premise labels: body swap · villain protagonist · hero identity theft · criminal mastermind · execution escape · prison security · crime crackdown

Setting labels: New York City · The Raft · supervillain prison · island prison · Shadowland · crime nexus · Marvel Universe · contemporary city · superhero world

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The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner · 1995 · Club of Rome Quartet

A gifted fugitive uses identity hacks to evade a surveillance state built on data, control, and accelerating change.

Why this is here

Premise labels: identity hacking · state surveillance · information control · fugitive on the run · social systems

Setting labels: near future · dystopian America · networked society · surveillance state · alternate future · post-quake society · information age · computerized world

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Distance: 0.2843

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Cover of And All the Stars by Andrea K. Höst

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.

Why this is here

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: 0.2843

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Cover of Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Midas Touch by Dan Jurgens

Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Midas Touch

Dan Jurgens, J.T. Krul, Keith Giffen, Ignacio Calero, Richard Horie · 2012 · Green Arrow (2011)

A rebooted billionaire archer vigilante battles livestreaming criminals and a toxic supervillain while juggling his company.

Why this is here

Premise labels: billionaire vigilante · tech-based hero · archer hero · secret identity · corporate double life · take down online villains · social media crime · supervillain confrontations · assassin pursuit · toxic monster threat

Setting labels: Seattle · contemporary · urban · corporate world · online media · social media · superhero universe · high-tech city · modern day

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Distance: 0.2847

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