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Premise labels used: ordinary protagonist, chosen one, good vs evil, cosmic battle, supernatural power, parallel universes, time manipulation, crime prevention

Setting labels used: small town, college town, contemporary setting, alternate reality, parallel universes, cosmic reality

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Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End

Jeff Lemire · 2021 · Gideon Falls

A small-town horror finale sends a ragtag group across realities to confront a multiversal evil and its mystery barn.

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Premise labels: multiverse crisis · evil force confrontation · chosen ones · apocalyptic threat · cosmic horror · psychiatric mystery · small-town horror

Setting labels: small town · rural setting · parallel universes · multiple timelines · alternate realities · interdimensional reality · cosmic setting

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Gideon Falls, Vol. 4: The Pentoculus

Jeff Lemire · 2020 · Gideon Falls

A mind-bending horror comic where parallel Gideon Falls, a sinister machine, and a relentless evil collide.

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Premise labels: parallel worlds · shifting realities · small-town horror · big-city conspiracy · mystery box · evil entity · body hopping · good vs evil · time travel · multiverse

Setting labels: small town · big city · alternate realities · parallel worlds · multiverse · nightmarish reality

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Distance: 0.1649

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The Last Adventure of Constance Verity

A. Lee Martinez · 2016 · Constance Verity

A world-saving adventurer tries to quit destiny by killing her fairy godmother and claiming an ordinary life.

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Premise labels: chosen one · reluctant hero · destiny vs free will · normal life · identity crisis · fairy godmother curse · one last mission · save the world · break the spell · kill the fairy godmother

Setting labels: contemporary fantasy · urban setting · alternate realities · outer space · time travel · multiverse · Earth · fantastical reality · secret conspiracies

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Distance: 0.1729

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UR

Stephen King · 2009

A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.

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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

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Distance: 0.1795

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Elsewhere

Dean Koontz · 2020

A father and daughter use a mysterious device to cross parallel worlds while shadowy forces hunt them.

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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

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A Dark Inheritance

Chris d'Lacey · 2014 · Unicorne Files

A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.

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Premise labels: missing father · supernatural ability · reality manipulation · secret organization · paranormal investigation · detective mission · school mystery · child protagonist

Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.1863

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Parallel

Claudia Lefeve · 2011 · Travelers

An orphan with hidden powers is pulled into a parallel reality where family, identity, and time are all unsettled.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · foster care · alternate reality · hidden identity · powers awakening · wrong reality · family reunion · chosen one · parallel worlds · time travel

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel worlds · contemporary · high school · foster home · group home · private school

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Distance: 0.1868

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Caine's Law

Matthew Woodring Stover · 2012 · The Acts of Caine

A battered assassin is dragged into a reality-bending, god-warped final gamble that could remake everything.

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Premise labels: reluctant hero · god conflict · time travel · alternate timelines · alternate reality · revenge · universe at stake · assassin protagonist

Setting labels: alternate reality · dual-world setting · future Earth · imaginary world · time-shifted setting · cosmic stakes · mythic reality

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Distance: 0.1893

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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 2017 · Time Quintet

A bullied girl, her gifted brother, and a friend cross space-time to rescue a missing father from cosmic evil.

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Premise labels: missing parent · rescue quest · interstellar journey · good vs evil · family quest · battle with darkness · gifted child · outsider protagonist · time travel · tesseract travel

Setting labels: small-town home · Earth · other planets · space and time · fifth dimension · fantastical universe · domestic setting · intergalactic setting

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Distance: 0.1923

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A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle · 2012

A girl, her brother, and a friend cross space and time to find her missing father and face a cosmic darkness.

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Premise labels: missing parent · rescue mission · space-time travel · interdimensional journey · cosmic threat · family quest · child heroes · mysterious guides · good vs evil · coming of age

Setting labels: small-town family life · Earth · other worlds · space · time travel · alternate dimension · planetary setting · cosmic setting · fictional universe

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Doughnut

Tom Holt · 2013 · YouSpace

A disgraced physicist is thrust into a bizarre multiverse quest after an inheritance unlocks reality-bending secrets.

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Premise labels: misfiring physicist · down-on-his-luck protagonist · quest after inheritance · multiverse adventure · physics gone wrong · save humanity · quest narrative

Setting labels: contemporary setting · multiverse · parallel realities · urban setting · scientific setting · hotel setting · alternate worlds · near-future science

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Distance: 0.1968

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Absolute Green Lantern, Vol. 1: Without Fear

Al Ewing · 2025 · Absolute Green Lantern (2025)

A sealed small town, alien judgment, and a reworked Lantern mythology force unlikely survivors into a cosmic mystery.

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Premise labels: mythology reinvention · small-town lockdown · alien judgment · cosmic mystery · alternate continuity · power transformation · missing powers

Setting labels: small town · Nevada · isolated town · sealed-off town · alternate universe · cosmic reality · Earth-based sci-fi · horror-inflected setting

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Distance: 0.1983

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