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Premise labels used: interstellar travel, colonial ship, coming of age, broken romance, wealth inequality, family power, survival crisis, humanity survival
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In a living-spacecraft society, new leaders face refugees, old secrets, and forbidden love while trying to reach true symbiosis.
Why this is here
Premise labels: living spaceship · symbiotic survival · colonial aftermath · political leadership · refugee crisis · culture clash · forbidden romance · power struggle
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1446
As an interstellar travel network collapses, an empress races to avert disaster while rivals exploit the crisis for power.
Why this is here
Premise labels: interstellar collapse · travel collapse · civilizational crisis · power struggle · existential threat · internecine conflict · survival stakes
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1550
Hijacked starship colonists flee oppression for a remote habitable moon, then struggle to build a new life there.
Why this is here
Premise labels: interstellar colonization · stolen starship · political refugees · distant colony · new world settlement · escape from oppression · frontier survival · first colony · habitable moon
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1581
A cloned astronaut on an interstellar colonization mission faces repeated second chances—and one unresolved past.
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Premise labels: interstellar colonization · duplicate selves · second chances · rebuilding relationships · human civilization restart · Earthlike planets · far-future exploration · slow-light transmission
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1587
A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.
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Premise labels: interstellar war · time travel drug · marital breakdown · political intrigue · medical crisis · alternate realities
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1679
A colony ship arrives to a world that no longer looks habitable, forcing crew and settlers into a desperate choice.
Why this is here
Premise labels: dying Earth · interstellar colonization · habitable planet search · colonist transport · crisis on arrival · forced resettlement
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1691
When faster-than-light travel starts failing, a fragile human empire must race to survive collapse and power grabs.
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Premise labels: collapsing empire · interstellar travel network · resource interdependence · race against time · succession crisis · political intrigue · civilization collapse · humanity stranded
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Distance: 0.1746
A forced colony ship reaches a strange world, while rival powers and alien technology reshape humanity’s future.
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Premise labels: interstellar colonization · exoplanet settlement · first contact · solar system politics · mysterious artifacts · AI mission · survival colony · post-climate future · interplanetary war
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1754
A generation ship nears Tau Ceti, but a new world and the ship itself force humans and AI to rethink their mission.
Why this is here
Premise labels: generation ship · interstellar voyage · colonization mission · closed ecosystem · first contact with environment · AI narrator · failed settlement · return to Earth
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Distance: 0.1782
A colonist starship’s failed deceleration turns a routine voyage into an accelerating, near-light-speed ordeal across deep time.
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Premise labels: interstellar voyage · relativistic travel · time dilation · out-of-control ship · deep space survival · colonization mission · end of universe · light-speed pursuit
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Distance: 0.1794
A family on a frontier exoplanet and their past selves on Earth race across time to uncover the truth and survive.
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Premise labels: family survival · time-spanning mystery · cloned humanity · space colonization · human legacy · intimacy and survival · intertwined timelines · new world crisis
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Distance: 0.1810
A human starship on a colonizing mission encounters a colossal artificial bowl-world and becomes split between escape and exploration.
Why this is here
Premise labels: first contact · megaconstruct · artificial world · colony ship · interstellar expedition · supply shortage · survival · alien encounter
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1816
