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

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

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Immune

Richard Phillips · 2009 · The Rho Agenda

A hunted teen team races to stop a government-backed alien-tech crisis as conspiracies, violence, and powers escalate.

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Premise labels: alien technology · government conspiracy · teen protagonists · genetic cure · medical breakthrough · pursuit and cover-up · hidden informant · technological escalation

Setting labels: New Mexico · United States government · NSA · Los Alamos · South America · Africa · high school setting · near future · Earth · global scale

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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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The Breach

Patrick Lee · 2009 · Travis Chase

An ex-con in the Alaskan wilds uncovers a secret breach, a deadly artifact, and a race to stop an apocalypse.

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Premise labels: 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: Alaska · Wyoming · Zurich · Germany · remote wilderness · underground facility · present day · secret world · alternate present · global chase

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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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The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin · 2015 · Remembrance of Earth's Past

Facing a 400-year alien invasion, humanity hides its plans in human minds alone and bets civilization on secret strategists.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · human survival · secret strategy · hidden thoughts · cosmic threat · first-contact fallout

Setting labels: Earth · deep space · future Earth · far future · crisis era · cosmic scale · global setting

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The Final Equinox

Andrew Mayne · 2022 · Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood

A skeptical scientist and an FBI agent probe a possible alien signal while murders and hoaxes close in around them.

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Premise labels: alien contact · deep-space signal · first contact · scientific investigation · murder investigation · hoax detection · conspiracy · secret project · skeptical debunker · high-stakes research

Setting labels: Nevada desert · New Mexico · Guatemala · Ecuador · outer space · solar system · research facility · secret lab · contemporary · ancient tomb

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All-New Wolverine, Vol. 4: Immune

Tom Taylor · 2017 · All-New Wolverine (Collected Editions)

A mutant healer races to stop an alien virus on Earth, then follows the trail into space with unlikely allies.

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Premise labels: alien virus · quarantine · healing powers · race against time · team-up · space mission · parasitic aliens · outbreak response

Setting labels: Earth · New York City · quarantine · space · alien world · moon · Marvel universe · superhero reality

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Sanctuary

Caryn Lix · 2018 · Sanctuary

A loyal teen guard on a corporate space prison must survive a hostage crisis, alien attack, and a collapse in everything she believed.

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Premise labels: space prison · superpowered teens · corporate control · hostage situation · alien invasion · forced alliance · prison break

Setting labels: space station · space prison · corporate dystopia · solar system · near-future · isolated setting · high-security facility

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Star Shroud

Ken Lozito · 2016 · Ascension

A hacker exposes a long-buried alien secret, pulling a NASA crew into a dangerous Pluto mission.

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Premise labels: alien signal · first contact · secret discovery · space mission · hidden alien structure · government secret · hacker protagonist · NASA mission · unlikely team · humanity survival · conspiracy · alien warning

Setting labels: near future · alternate future · Earth · Pluto · Titan · solar system · space ship · deep space · NASA · government contractor · military contractor

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The Secret of Giza

Ken H. Warner · 2020 · The Kwan Thrillers

Twin teens with strange powers flee government agents and uncover a conspiracy linking Atlantis, Giza, and humanity's origins.

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Premise labels: ancient aliens · hidden chamber · government conspiracy · fugitive teens · special powers · human origins · lost civilization · world-threatening threat

Setting labels: Earth · Giza · Great Pyramid · Bermuda Triangle · Area 51 · Atlantis · ancient alien reality · near-future speculative world

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Expedition to Earth

Arthur C. Clarke · 1999

A vintage Clarke collection of 11 idea-driven SF stories about space, alien contact, survival, and humanity's future.

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Premise labels: science fiction ideas · space exploration · alien encounter · moral dilemma · technological advancement · post-apocalyptic aftermath · future history

Setting labels: outer space · the Moon · distant future · post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate worlds · deep space · pre-Apollo

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Stealthy Steps

Vikki Kestell · 2015 · Nanostealth

A forgettable assistant gets pulled into a secret nanotech conspiracy and becomes invisible while a corrupt general hunts her.

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Premise labels: invisibility · nanotechnology · secret lab · government conspiracy · spywork · corrupt military · tech theft · science gone wrong · ordinary woman in danger

Setting labels: present day · Albuquerque · New Mexico · Air Force base · secret laboratory · underground facility · military base · real-world setting

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