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Premise labels used: ex-con protagonist, secret project, space-time breach, alien artifacts, apocalypse threat, government cover-up, mysterious device, world-saving mission, conspiracy thriller, artifacts with powers

Setting labels used: Alaska, Wyoming, Zurich, Germany, remote wilderness, underground facility, present day, secret world, alternate present, global chase

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Wormhole

Richard Phillips · 2012 · The Rho Agenda

A final showdown pits enhanced teens against an imprisoned scientist and a hidden alien agenda threatening Earth.

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Premise labels: alien technology · wormhole project · planetary threat · teen protagonists · government conspiracy · scientific anomaly · alien invasion · enhanced humans

Setting labels: Switzerland · New Mexico · CERN · Bolivia · contemporary Earth · secret facilities · government prisons · space-based threat

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Distance: 0.2131

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Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel · 2016 · Themis Files

A physicist revisits a giant metal hand found in childhood, racing to uncover its origins before the world turns against itself.

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Premise labels: first contact · alien artifact · giant robot · hidden technology · global mystery · scientific investigation · secret project

Setting labels: modern day · Earth · South Dakota · global · secret government project · underground discovery · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2197

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Transport

Phillip P. Peterson · 2016 · Transport

Death-row inmates are recruited to test an alien transport device that may lead them—and humanity—into danger.

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Premise labels: alien artifact · transport device · teleportation to other worlds · death row prisoners · dangerous mission · test subjects · secret project

Setting labels: Earth · California coast · ocean discovery · space travel · other solar systems · alien worlds · military facility

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Distance: 0.2273

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The Doomsday Conspiracy

Sidney Sheldon · 1991

A naval intelligence officer is sent to silence witnesses to a crash, only to uncover a global conspiracy and hidden truth.

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Premise labels: secret mission · witness hunt · government cover-up · alien conspiracy · espionage intrigue · international conspiracy

Setting labels: United States · Switzerland · Europe · global travel · contemporary setting · government agencies · military intelligence

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Distance: 0.2293

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The Second Ship

Richard Phillips · 2012 · The Rho Agenda

Three teens uncover a hidden alien ship in New Mexico and are pulled into a government conspiracy with dangerous consequences.

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Premise labels: alien ship · hidden technology · teen protagonists · secret government project · cover-up conspiracy · enhanced abilities · discovery mission · first contact

Setting labels: New Mexico · Los Alamos · desert setting · remote canyon · cave setting · present day · Earth · laboratory setting · military research

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Distance: 0.2299

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Kill Switch

Jonathan Maberry · 2016 · Joe Ledger

A black-ops team races to stop an EMP-driven terror plot while mind control, monsters, and fallout unravel everything.

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Premise labels: terrorist threat · EMP attack · blackout crisis · race against time · world-saving mission · mind control · Lovecraftian horror

Setting labels: United States · Antarctica · Pacific Northwest · alternate dimension · parallel universe · real-world near-future · military operations

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Distance: 0.2330

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The Enigma Cube

Douglas E. Richards · 2020 · Alien Artifact

An alien artifact and a dangerous time-travel crisis force a scientist and an enhanced commando to fight for humanity.

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Premise labels: alien artifact · secret research · humanity at stake · time travel · protect the device · unlock the secrets · future-changing technology · race against time

Setting labels: near future · Nazi Germany · wartime Europe · Washington state · secret facility · mountain hideout · 1940s · 2027 · top-secret lab

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Distance: 0.2331

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Gwendy's Final Task

Stephen King, Richard Chizmar · 2022 · The Button Box

An aging senator must carry a dangerous, reality-shaping box into space for one last mission to save the world.

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Premise labels: mysterious object · dangerous artifact · world-saving mission · final task · burden of power · secret mission · space mission · cursed object · saving humanity · cosmic stakes

Setting labels: Maine · Castle Rock · Derry · space station · outer space · Cape Canaveral · post-Covid · 2026 · contemporary · shared universe

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Distance: 0.2343

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آرسس

أحمد آل حمدان · 2024 · آرسس

A secret Saudi space mission to study a strange sky object spirals into time shifts, hidden truths, and a shocking reveal.

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Premise labels: mysterious object · secret research · space mission · time travel · fate alteration · cosmic mystery · rescue mission · hidden truth

Setting labels: Saudi Arabia · space · desert · secret facility · cosmic setting · earth and off-world

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Distance: 0.2380

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The Wild Storm, Vol. 1

Warren Ellis · 2017 · The Wild Storm

A transhuman engineer’s rescue of a falling man ignites a slow-burn web of secret agencies, aliens, and hidden power.

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Premise labels: secret organizations · global conspiracy · covert power struggle · rebooted universe · transhuman protagonist · corporate espionage · spy thriller · alien presence · future tech

Setting labels: New York City · parallel Earth · alternate universe · near future · shadow government world · spacefaring setting · secret world · corporate future · covert operations · post-90s rebooted continuity

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Distance: 0.2399

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Antarctica Station

A.G. Riddle · 2024

A framed doctor takes a secret Antarctic job, only to uncover a hidden experiment and a world-altering catastrophe.

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Premise labels: framed doctor · secret research facility · Antarctica isolation · stasis experiment · end of world · forced recruitment · government surveillance · escape plot · hidden reality · survival mission

Setting labels: Antarctica · polar isolation · research station · remote facility · frozen wasteland · near future · post-apocalyptic world · alternate reality · simulation · global catastrophe

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First Contact

Kim Harrison · 2024 · Eclipsed Evolution

A scientist is pulled into a secret project after eclipse-born visitors arrive, forcing first contact with alien refugees.

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Premise labels: first contact · alien refugees · dying world · secret government project · scientist protagonist · communication barrier · biological testing · human-alien alliance · portal opening · species survival

Setting labels: Earth · alien home world · portal between worlds · modern day · secret base · military facility · quarantine zone · contemporary world · paranormal realm · alternate world

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Distance: 0.2410

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