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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Dark Matter. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: abduction mystery, alternate reality, parallel worlds, identity crisis, road not taken, family rescue, lost life, what if
Setting labels used: Chicago, small college, urban, contemporary, alternate realities, multiverse, lab setting, warehouse setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate life · do-over · identity crisis · memory conflict · choice and consequence · mystery setup · reality shift · time travel
Setting labels: Chicago · Michigan · small town · suburbs · art gallery · birthday party · contemporary setting · workplace tech startup
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1896
A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate realities · parallel universes · future sight · mysterious device · literary discovery · dangerous knowledge · technology gone wrong · obsessive reading
Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1933
A grieving man is pulled into parallel lives and a deadly confrontation with his own double.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel universes · doppelgänger · second chances · grief after loss · experimental therapy · alternate selves · identity crisis · reality bending · many worlds theory
Setting labels: Chicago · contemporary · stormy night · rainy night · urban setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2019
A father and daughter use a mysterious device to cross parallel worlds while shadowy forces hunt them.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel universes · family separation · missing spouse · mysterious device · government pursuit · race to reunite family · portal object · good vs evil
Setting labels: California · small town · parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate Earths · contemporary setting · dystopian worlds · familiar-and-bizarre realities
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2024
A quiet young man brings a baffling multi-life mystery to Misir Ali, who tries to explain an unsolved case spanning realities.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mystery inquiry · parallel worlds · multiple lives · unsolved case · intriguing stranger
Setting labels: contemporary · psychological reality · parallel universe · multiverse · multiple dimensions
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2027
A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · parallel timelines · multiple realities · powers · new mystery · identity crisis · displaced protagonist · missing life
Setting labels: Los Angeles · alternate universe · multiverse · high school aftermath · young adult life · small town roots · California · parallel timeline · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2075
After gravity vanishes, a delivery girl gets pulled into her father’s dangerous plan to change the world again.
Why this is here
Premise labels: low gravity · gravity loss · post-apocalypse · what if · world adaptation · scientific mystery · secret plan · save the world
Setting labels: Earth · Chicago · low-gravity world · post-apocalyptic setting · future Earth · contemporary sci-fi
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2086
A grieving daughter uses a mysterious worm to search alternate realities for her missing mother—and for herself.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate realities · multiverse search · grieving daughter · missing mother · consciousness swap · identity search · dangerous discovery · rival pursuit
Setting labels: parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate reality · Portland · Haiti · Argentina · North Carolina
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2088
Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.
Why this is here
Premise labels: human cloning · identity crisis · ethical dilemma · on the run · mistaken identity · search for a cure · outsider status · escape from institution
Setting labels: futuristic world · not-too-distant future · laboratory setting · institution setting · outside the institute · road trip · suburban domestic setting · trailer park · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2094
A detective couple trails a man with missing daytime memories and uncovers a reality-bending secret behind his life.
Why this is here
Premise labels: amnesia mystery · private detectives · hidden occupation · supernatural mystery · reality distortion · secret world · paranoia · time travel · cosmic mystery · hidden reality
Setting labels: Chicago · 1940s · mid-20th century · urban · pulp-era · mirror world · alternate reality · multi-dimensional space · mental institution
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2111
A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel universes · multiverse · alternate lives · identity search · self-discovery · regret · belonging · love across versions · life choices · reality shifts
Setting labels: contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · cosmology lab · apocalyptic worlds · surreal worlds · realistic worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2125
A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · identity swap · double life · family mystery · hidden portal · changed life · second chance · parallel world · teen romance
Setting labels: California · New Jersey · alternate dimension · alternate universe · past and present · high school · teen world · suburban
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2131
