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Premise labels used: first contact, time travel, alien encounter, missing person, time loop, mystery
Setting labels used: North Korea, New York City, outer solar system, space, present day, past timeline, early 21st century, First Contact setting
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A Clarke anthology of short SF tales about lunar discovery, alien artifacts, and the awe and peril of spacefaring.
Why this is here
Premise labels: lunar exploration · alien artifact · first contact · space travel · extraterrestrial intelligence · scientific mystery · future technology · space exploration
Setting labels: Moon · future Earth · solar system · Jupiter · mid-century future · outer space
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Distance: 0.1789
A second mysterious alien ship enters the solar system, sending an expert crew into a tense mission of secrets, science, and drama.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien spacecraft · second contact · scientific expedition · mystery ship · human-alien encounter · solar system crisis
Setting labels: solar system · future Earth · outer space · alien spacecraft · interplanetary setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1857
A teen in a time-looped future travels to uncover her parents’ fate and the truth behind the endless storm.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time loop · missing parents · journey to the city · time travel · mystery quest · science-driven mystery
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · time loop world · futuristic city · small-town to city journey · Polish setting
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Distance: 0.1924
A teen who feels reality’s glitches is pulled into an alien time-travel mission to save Earth from collapse.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · alien experiment · alien rebellion · save the Earth · hidden sensitivity · race against time · reality unraveling
Setting labels: Earth · historical settings · past eras · contemporary Earth · alien world
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Distance: 0.1947
A future investigator hunts her missing clone-sister and uncovers a buried first-contact secret among the stars.
Why this is here
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: 0.1951
Two years after alien Trees fell worldwide, a biologist and a new NYC mayor chase ominous clues in a tense near-future mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien first contact · silent alien presence · investigation · political intrigue · post-impact society · ecological threat
Setting labels: near future · global setting · Orkney Islands · Manhattan · New York City · British Isles · flooded city · post-contact Earth
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Distance: 0.1966
Aliens seek human “witnesses” for an ancient wrong, and the revelation on distant worlds upends Earth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien contact · witness mission · mystery revelation · human-alien encounter · first contact · afterlife mystery · gene alteration
Setting labels: near future · moon base · interstellar travel · alternate past · other human worlds · binary planets · spacefaring future
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Distance: 0.1972
Reunited in a prehistoric age, four paper girls must survive strange dangers while chasing the secret of time travel.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel mystery · lost in time · reunion quest · homecoming · prehistory adventure · origin mystery · clue hunt
Setting labels: prehistory · prehistoric age · BCE · time travel · multiple timelines · 1980s · future · science fictional world
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Distance: 0.1982
A memory-bound recorder joins a time-travel task force and gets pulled into dangerous missions, paradoxes, and slow-burn love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · memory · mystery mission · team assignment · time correction · parallel worlds · chronological puzzle · government task force · space-time anomaly · recorded history
Setting labels: future world · time travel system · parallel universes · space-time missions · government bureau · scientific speculation · post-apocalyptic elements · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1988
A comet-mining crew chases a runaway Saturn moon into deep space, only to face alien mysteries and crew fracture.
Why this is here
Premise labels: comet miners · runaway moon · alien artifact · first contact · deep time · survival
Setting labels: near future · outer solar system · deep space · future human society · interstellar travel · time dilation · hard SF future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1992
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In the second volume of a body-swapping romance, a teenage boy searches for a girl who may be tied to a bigger time mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: body swapping · search for missing person · time mystery · fated connection · save a town · crossed timelines
Setting labels: rural town · city contrast · Japanese setting · comet disaster · time travel · parallel lives
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Distance: 0.2008
A starship investigates a missing sister ship on a barren planet and uncovers an alien mystery beyond human control.
Why this is here
Premise labels: first contact · rescue mission · missing expedition · alien mystery · unexplored planet · investigation
Setting labels: deep space · remote planet · desolate planet · alien world · interstellar exploration · future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2016
