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Premise labels used: limbo world, afterlife conflict, dead children, search for home, quest for the light, body possession, world between life and death

Setting labels used: afterlife realm, limbo, parallel world, ghost world, American South, Memphis, Hindenburg, dead spots, in-between world

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Everfound

Neal Shusterman · 2011 · The Skinjacker Trilogy

In an afterlife limbo for lost children, rival factions collide in a final battle that could destroy both worlds.

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Premise labels: afterlife limbo · souls of the dead · battle for the dead · war for the living world · liminal realm

Setting labels: afterlife realm · limbo · between life and death · distorted real world · living world overlap · ghost train · ghostly cities · Mayan-influenced locale · alternate world

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Distance: 0.1147

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Everlost

Neal Shusterman · 2006 · The Skinjacker Trilogy

Two kids die in a crash and wake in a perilous afterlife limbo where lost children must learn strange rules to survive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife limbo · lost children · unfinished business · survival quest · alternate afterlife · between worlds

Setting labels: limbo world · shadow world · parallel dimension · post-death setting · children-only world · forest setting · New York setting · East Coast journey · dead places

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Distance: 0.1466

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The Amber Spyglass

Philip Pullman · 2001 · His Dark Materials

Will and Lyra race across worlds toward war, the dead, and adulthood in a finale of love, loss, and rebellion.

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Premise labels: quest · multiworld journey · war in heaven · rescue mission · coming of age · good versus evil · afterlife journey · authority conflict

Setting labels: parallel worlds · multiverse · imaginary worlds · world of the dead · heavenly realm · post-mortem setting · alternate reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1749

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Level 2

Lenore Appelhans · 2013 · The Memory Chronicles

A newly dead teen navigates a memory-powered afterlife, a forbidden rebellion, and two complicated boys.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife limbo · memory replay · rebellion · trust dilemma · love quest · good vs evil · death afterlife · memory economy

Setting labels: afterlife · purgatory · limbo · heaven boundary · futuristic afterlife · stark white world · hive-like setting · pods · memory chambers · memories as network

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Distance: 0.1751

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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.

Why this is here

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: 0.1976

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Lifeblood

Gena Showalter · 2017 · Everlife

A newly dead teen must navigate a warring afterlife realm, master her powers, and choose between love and victory.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife choice · realm war · chosen one · special powers · romantic conflict · second life

Setting labels: afterlife realm · dystopian fantasy · two rival realms · war-torn world · spiritual realm · post-death society

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Distance: 0.2047

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Driftwood

Marie Brennan · 2020

A legendary guide in a place where worlds die is commemorated through stories that reveal Driftwood’s strange, shrinking reality.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dying worlds · last survivor · legendary guide · memory and forgetting · worlds colliding · end of worlds · oral tales · mourning ritual

Setting labels: secondary world · apocalyptic realm · post-apocalyptic · dying worlds · patchwork world · fragments · shifting borders · cataclysmic landscape · cosmic liminal space · slow apocalypse

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Distance: 0.2078

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Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 2: The Lord of Worlds

Akira Toriyama · 2003 · Dragon Ball [ドラゴンボール]

Goku trains in the afterlife while Earth’s heroes prepare for a Saiyan invasion that could end the planet.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife training · race against time · planetary threat · protect the world · power-up quest

Setting labels: afterlife · underworld · heaven · Earth · small planet · wilderness · fictional universe

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Distance: 0.2094

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Firstlife

Gena Showalter · 2016 · Everlife

A stubborn teen forced to choose an afterlife side becomes the prize in a war between two rival realms.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife choice · two realms · faction rivalry · forced recruitment · undecided heroine · asylum confinement · soul selection · war for souls

Setting labels: Earth · asylum · afterlife · light vs dark realm · parallel realms · war-torn fantasy world · liminal afterlife

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Distance: 0.2100

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What Dreams May Come

Richard Matheson · 2004

A grieving husband journeys through the afterlife to find his wife and challenge the boundaries of death, love, and faith.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife · love beyond death · rescue mission · quest to reunite · death and reunion

Setting labels: afterlife · heaven · hell · purgatory · spiritual realms · Summerland · future life · earth after death · metaphysical reality

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Distance: 0.2104

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To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip José Farmer · 1973 · Riverworld

A resurrected explorer must navigate an endless alien river where all humanity has returned to uncover who made it and why.

Why this is here

Premise labels: afterlife mystery · mass resurrection · alien experiment · endless river · search for answers · second chance · historical figures · postmortem society

Setting labels: alien planet · endless river · river valley · afterlife world · artificial world · post-death setting · alternate Earth · prehistoric to future mix · nonhuman presence

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Distance: 0.2119

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Archivist Wasp

Nicole Kornher-Stace · 2015 · Archivist Wasp Saga

A ghost-hunting girl in a ruined world joins a talking ghost on a descent that could free her—or remake everything.

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Premise labels: ghost hunting · underworld quest · escape from oppression · post-apocalyptic mystery · memory recovery · dead-world exploration · bargain with a ghost · girl versus power structure · truth-seeking

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · desolate wasteland · underworld · dead world · ruined society · small village · rural town · post-technological world · mythic setting · ancient-feeling world

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Distance: 0.2138

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