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Anne McCaffrey

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Premise labels used: psychic abilities, gifted children, space construction, overpopulation, child rescue, training center, illegal child, future society

Setting labels used: near future, overpopulated Earth, space platform, space station, urban slums, Linear developments, parapsychic center, authoritarian society

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Pegasus in Space

Anne McCaffrey · 2001 · The Talent

A psychic young man helps humanity expand into space while sabotage, recovery, and destiny link two saga timelines.

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Premise labels: psychic powers · space colonization · space station · sabotage · attempted murder · human expansion · telepathy · teleportation · telekinesis · parapsychic talent

Setting labels: space station · Earth orbit · near future · overpopulated Earth · Moon base · Mars base · space colonies · interstellar future · alternate Earth · colonization era

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Distance: 0.1764

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To Ride Pegasus

Anne McCaffrey · 1983 · The Talent

A fix-up of linked stories about proving psychic powers are real and building an institution to protect Talented people.

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Premise labels: psychic powers · scientific proof · organized psychics · minority rights · legal protection · parapsychic center · regulating abilities · public fear

Setting labels: near future · future Earth · alternate Earth · bureaucratic future · overcrowded city · urban setting · late 20th century · scientific future

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Distance: 0.2046

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Children of the Fleet

Orson Scott Card · 2017 · Fleet School

A gifted boy enters a retooled Battle School and gets pulled into secrets, sabotage, and leadership trials in space.

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Premise labels: gifted child · space school · colony training · post-war future · genius protagonist · coming of age · leader training · mystery parentage · kidnapping · school conspiracy · space exploration

Setting labels: space station · Battle School · Fleet School · post-Formic war · terraformed worlds · International Fleet · colonization era · Earth · outer space · fictional future

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Distance: 0.2145

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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · 2004 · Ender's Saga

A gifted child is taken to a space battle school where games, pressure, and war become dangerously real.

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Premise labels: child genius · military academy · alien invasion · coming-of-age · chosen child · war training · leadership test · strategic genius · third child

Setting labels: future Earth · orbital station · Battle School · Command School · space station · interstellar war · humanity at war · socially controlled future · zero gravity

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Distance: 0.2149

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FUTU.RE

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2015

In an immortal future Europe, a regime enforcer is drawn into a clash between state order, parenthood, and humanity.

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Premise labels: immortality · eternal youth · overpopulation · population control · illegal pregnancy · forced aging · birth ban · future society · state control · social engineering

Setting labels: future Europe · far future · megalopolis · tower cities · overpopulated world · immortal society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.2174

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Line and Orbit

Sunny Moraine, Lisa Soem · 2013 · Root Code

A genetically enhanced outcast flees a perfection-obsessed empire and finds refuge, danger, and desire among space nomads.

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Premise labels: genetic flaw · outcast survival · rescue and refuge · authoritarian society · forbidden attraction · hidden secret · cultural clash · identity shift · cover-up

Setting labels: far future · spacefaring · interstellar · generation ships · mobile habitats · authoritarian state · nomadic society · genetically engineered society · dystopian future · space opera world

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Distance: 0.2177

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Beggars in Spain

Nancy Kress · 1994 · Sleepless

Genetically engineered to need no sleep, a gifted minority triggers envy, backlash, and a battle over who owes whom.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · sleep deprivation · superhuman elite · class divide · designer children · posthuman society

Setting labels: near future · United States · orbiting space station · future Earth · alternate future · space habitat · embryo engineering era

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Distance: 0.2182

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Children of Eden

Joey Graceffa, Laura L. Sullivan · 2016 · Children of Eden

In a controlled post-apocalyptic city, an illegal second-born girl escapes hiding and gets pulled into rebellion and secrets.

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Premise labels: illegal child · one-child policy · hidden identity · survival · rebellion against system · post-collapse world · sealed city · artificial environment · resource scarcity · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · artificial city · controlled society · future world · inside/outside divide · futuristic dystopia · urban circles

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Distance: 0.2184

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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School

Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card · 2009 · Ender's Saga (Graphic Novels)

A gifted child is recruited into a brutal space academy to train for humanity’s next war against aliens.

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Premise labels: child prodigy · military training · alien invasion · elite school · humanity survival · psychological testing · chosen child · command training

Setting labels: space station · future war · military school · zero gravity · futuristic · Earth under threat · fictional academy · alien war

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Distance: 0.2187

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Lies, Inc.

Philip K. Dick · 1984

In a crowded future, a suspicious heir crosses space to test a one-way colony’s promise of paradise.

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Premise labels: overpopulation crisis · one-way teleportation · colonized paradise · corporate cover-up · truth-seeking voyage · interstellar investigation · space colonization · security state

Setting labels: future Earth · overpopulated world · space colony · distant planet · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · paraworlds · dystopian future · postwar future

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Setting labels: future dystopia · overpopulated world · futuristic society · technological society · fake garden · corporate future · earthbound future

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Cover of Shadow Children Complete Set, Books 1-7: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, and Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shadow Children Complete Set, Books 1-7: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, and Among the Free

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2008 · Shadow Children

In a future with a two-child law, hidden third children must survive, resist, and fight for freedom.

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Premise labels: forbidden children · hidden identity · survival under law · resource scarcity · government control · coming of age under oppression

Setting labels: future society · dystopian society · resource-scarce world · population-controlled society · authoritarian state · farming setting · suburban setting

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Distance: 0.2226

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