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Premise labels used: disabled protagonist, identity deception, off-world university, underclass discrimination, archaeological dig, hidden identity, prove yourself, fish out of water, future humanity

Setting labels used: far future, year 2788, Earth, off-world colonies, multi-planet civilization, abandoned Earth, archaeological ruins, university setting, spacefaring society, alternative future

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Earth Star

Janet Edwards · 2013 · Earth Girl

A disabled Earth-born teen is pulled into a first-contact crisis when an alien sphere appears over Earth.

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Premise labels: first contact · alien contact · disabled protagonist · Earth-bound · military recruitment · archaeology · history student · prehistory research · alien mystery · prejudice against disabled · prove worth

Setting labels: far future · Earth future · off-planet colonies · portals · Earth-bound society · Africa · New York ruins · archaeological dig site · university campus · military base · reclaimed rainforest · spacefaring civilization · alien contact era

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Distance: 0.2026

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Perilous Waif

E. William Brown · 2017 · Alice Long

An unusually gifted orphan flees a controlled upbringing and finds herself pulled into a dangerous far-future crew.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · hidden powers · on the run · spacefaring escape · underdog ascent · coming of age · mystery identity · body modification

Setting labels: far future · spacefaring civilization · interstellar travel · orphanage · spaceships · space stations · colonized galaxy · post-Earth future · artificial intelligence society · cybernetic future

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Distance: 0.2051

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Space Boy Volume 2

Stephen McCranie · 2018 · Space Boy

A hopeful teen from a space colony navigates Earth school life while drawn to a strange, flavorless boy with secrets.

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Premise labels: new student · fish out of water · cultural adjustment · school life · mysterious boy · hidden identity · light sci-fi · friendship story · coming of age · mystery buildup

Setting labels: high school · Earth · space colony · future Earth · spacefaring future · science fiction world · everyday future · outer space · colony life

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Distance: 0.2087

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The Man in the Maze

Robert Silverberg · 1969

An exiled diplomat with a dangerous alien curse is hunted down to help humanity contact a new alien threat.

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Premise labels: self-imposed exile · alien contact · damaged protagonist · rescued outcast · humanity at stake · deadly labyrinth · communication problem · moral dilemma · greater good · misfit savior

Setting labels: far future · colonized galaxy · remote planet · abandoned city · alien labyrinth · dead planet · human-settled worlds · ancient ruins · spacefaring civilization · long-lived society · speculative future

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Distance: 0.2100

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Infinity Beach

Jack McDevitt · 2000

A future investigator hunts her missing clone-sister and uncovers a buried first-contact secret among the stars.

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Premise labels: first contact · missing person · cover-up · investigation · alien intelligence · search for truth · lost expedition · clone mystery

Setting labels: far future · colonized worlds · interstellar society · spacefaring civilization · terraforming · colony planet · human expansion · stagnant future · distant future · off-world

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Distance: 0.2149

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Children of Strife

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026 · Children of Time

Three timelines collide on a terraformed world, where uplifted species, desperate humans, and old sins of creation meet.

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Premise labels: terraforming · uplift · first contact · intelligence · identity crisis · survival · planetary mystery · arkship encounter · post-collapse humanity · bioengineering

Setting labels: far future · post-Earth · terraformed planet · spacefaring civilization · ark ships · planetary ecosystem · multi-species society · distant future history

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Distance: 0.2173

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The Naked Sun

Isaac Asimov · 1993 · Robot

Earth detective Elijah Baley is sent to a robot-run world where no one meets in person to solve a shocking murder.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · off-world investigation · fish out of water · culture clash · locked-room mystery · robot partner · social taboo · surveillance society

Setting labels: future Earth · underground cities · off-world colony · isolated society · spacefaring future · futuristic society · planetary civilization · outer worlds

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Distance: 0.2177

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The World of Null-A

A.E. van Vogt · 2002 · Null-A

An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.

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Premise labels: identity mystery · false memories · interstellar conspiracy · utopian social order · philosophical society · superhuman potential · games-based advancement · lawless competition · galactic war · planetary migration

Setting labels: far future · Earth · Venus · interplanetary society · galactic community · utopia · post-war future · spacefaring civilization · lawless month

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Distance: 0.2179

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Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry · 2001 · The Giver

An orphaned, disabled girl with a rare artistic gift is pulled into a harsh village’s secrets and control.

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Premise labels: orphan · disabled protagonist · gifted artist · oppressive community · outcast survival · hidden truth · coming of age

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · future society · isolated village · harsh community · primitive world · controlled community

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Distance: 0.2181

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When She's Lonely

Ruby Dixon · 2022 · Risdaverse

A hearing-impaired human farmer on an alien colony is forced into close contact with a custodian who learns her secret.

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Premise labels: hidden disability · secret identity · farm life · alien colony · forced secrecy · misjudged outsider · caretaking romance

Setting labels: alien planet · farming planet · colony setting · refugee community · post-abduction survival · speculative future

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Distance: 0.2222

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Glasshouse

Charles Stross · 2006

An amnesiac future fugitive hides inside a 20th-century social experiment that soon turns sinister.

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Premise labels: memory wipe · amnesiac protagonist · assassination threat · future society · social experiment · identity crisis · body swap · closed system · undercover mission · post-scarcity future

Setting labels: far future · 27th century · posthuman society · space colonies · wormhole network · simulation · recreated 20th century · 1950s suburbia · 1990s simulation · sealed environment

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Distance: 0.2229

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The Goblin Reservation

Clifford D. Simak · 1993

A professor returns to a future Earth where mythic beings, time travel, and an impossible double turn his life into a comic mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: duplicate identity · murder mystery · lost identity · alien knowledge · time travel coexistence · mythic creatures in future

Setting labels: far future · future Earth · university setting · college campus · Wisconsin · interplanetary society · time-travel society · post-technological future · mythic Earth

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Distance: 0.2238

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