Rush
A grief-stricken teen is pulled into a secret, deadly game to fight aliens, with no training and no easy answers.
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Plot structure labels used: in medias res, action-driven, mission-based, mystery-driven, slow reveal, interleaved documents, alternating chapters, constant suspense, abrupt ending, bittersweet ending
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Break and Enter
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Killing Gravity
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Grimspace
A traumatized space navigator with a rare gene escapes prison and joins rebels in a fight against corporate control.
Light Chaser
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Asfixia
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The Stolen Chapters
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The Natural Way of Things
Ten women wake in an isolated prison camp and must survive abuse, secrecy, and one another to escape.
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Space Station Down
A lone astronaut must outwit terrorists who seize the ISS and threaten to turn it into a weapon against Earth.
Three
A lone bounty hunter escorts a mother and her mysterious son across a ruined future world hunted by monsters and men.