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Premise labels used: final battle, interstellar war, human-mech hybrid, mech rights, AI personhood, star-crossed lovers, rescue mission, body bargaining, galactic conflict

Setting labels used: space opera setting, galaxy-wide, colony planets, Earth vs colonies, different worlds, interplanetary war, futuristic setting, dystopian setting, alternate human civilization

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Defy the Worlds

Claudia Gray · 2018 · Constellation

Separated by war and a plague, a soldier and a mech race across worlds to save a planet and each other.

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Premise labels: interplanetary conflict · plague outbreak · rescue mission · captor pursuit · forced reunion · forbidden romance · humanity debate · mech identity

Setting labels: space opera · interplanetary · galactic · multiple worlds · Genesis · Earth · spaceship setting · planetary conflict · futuristic · distant planets

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Distance: 0.1169

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Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots

Jeff Lemire · 2018 · Descender

As robots rise across the galaxy, Tim-21 and scattered allies are drawn into an interstellar war with buried origins.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · human vs robots · intergalactic war · AI conflict · bounty hunters · survival · mysterious origins · chosen one

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic · galaxy · ocean planet · mysterious planet · robot society · futuristic · dystopian · war-torn

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Distance: 0.1512

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Invincible, Vol. 14: The Viltrumite War

Robert Kirkman · 2011 · Invincible

An epic, bloody war pits Invincible and allies against a ruthless alien empire, with huge consequences for everyone.

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Premise labels: intergalactic war · final battle · coalition against empire · all-out conflict · survival stakes

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic setting · multiple planets · Earth · fictional universe

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Distance: 0.1573

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Dark Deeds

Michelle Diener · 2022 · Class 5

An abducted Earth woman is rescued into a tense alien war and must fight for survival, agency, and trust.

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Premise labels: abducted human · rescue mission · prisoner escape · interstellar politics · approaching war · sentient AI · battleship captain · alien negotiations

Setting labels: space opera · alien world · space station · spaceship · interstellar setting · military space setting · trading ship

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Distance: 0.1578

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Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

Jeff Lemire · 2015 · Descender

A childlike robot wakes in a galaxy that outlawed androids and becomes the target of factions seeking his secrets.

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Premise labels: robot outlawing · robot survival · child robot · galactic mystery · bounty hunted · robot-hunt · AI conflict · human machine conflict · missing family · cataclysm aftermath

Setting labels: distant future · galaxy · space opera setting · multiple planets · mining colony · moon colony · galactic council · post-catastrophe universe · interplanetary civilization · futuristic world

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Distance: 0.1581

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The Queen's Gambit

Jessie Mihalik · 2017 · Rogue Queen

A space-opera novella where a starving queen tries to ransom an enemy emperor to save her people.

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Premise labels: galactic war · neutral coalition · kidnapping ransom · rescue mission · starving refugees · enemies to lovers · political bargaining · factional conflict

Setting labels: space opera setting · interplanetary war · galactic conflict · outer reaches of the solar system · neutral sector · own universe · future tech

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Distance: 0.1601

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Forever Defend

Michael Anderle · 2017 · The Kurtherian Gambit

A bored empress returns to the front lines as new allies, new recruits, and new enemies push an empire toward war.

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Premise labels: front-line ruler · alien invasion · interstellar war · new company · recruitment · defensive alliance · trap

Setting labels: interstellar empire · space opera setting · alien politics · military setting · futuristic setting · multi-species world

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Distance: 0.1631

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Fear the Future

Stephen Moss · 2014 · The Fear Saga

As an alien armada closes in, Earth races to survive a brutal, politically fraught war for humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · human survival · last stand · planetary defense · interstellar war · advanced enemy

Setting labels: Earth · alien world · space · future Earth · global conflict · interstellar setting · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1638

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · 2017 · Constellation

A teen soldier and an evolved robot are forced into an interstellar mission that could end a war and change both of them.

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Premise labels: enemy allies · interstellar war · robot sentience · suicide mission · journey across galaxy · identity crisis · humanity question · unlikely partnership

Setting labels: space opera · interstellar travel · multiple planets · colonized planets · distant future · planetary war · derelict spaceship · wormhole gates · post-Earth civilization · far future

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Distance: 0.1671

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Warrior

Nick Webb · 2015 · Legacy Fleet

A war-weary fleet captain takes the fight to ruthless aliens while politics, betrayals, and twists close in.

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Premise labels: human vs aliens · last-stand defense · enemy homeworld mission · military campaign · unlikely hero · survival struggle · wartime leadership

Setting labels: space opera · future war · interstellar conflict · united earth federation · fleet setting · space battles · alien species · far-future setting

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Layers of Force

Lindsay Buroker · 2020 · Star Kingdom

A captive robotics professor must escape execution while allies race to save him and a power struggle reshapes humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: escape from captivity · public execution threat · rebel and traitor · robotics genius · political conflict · wormhole gate conflict · rescue mission · found family · underdog hero · saving humanity

Setting labels: space opera setting · the Twelve Systems · monarchy · academic setting · star kingdom · human colony worlds · wormhole gateways · terraformed planets · habitats and moons · spacefaring civilization

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Shadows Upon Time

Christopher Ruocchio · 2025 · The Sun Eater

A fugitive war hero must rally one last ally and wield an ancient weapon to stop an alien apocalypse and decide humanity’s fate.

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Premise labels: final showdown · fugitive hero · last ally · galactic war · ancient weapon · last stand · prophecy fulfillment · chosen one · cosmic conflict · endgame

Setting labels: space opera setting · galaxy-spanning · far future · interstellar empire · alien war · humanity under threat · cosmic mythic reality · space warfare · planetary conflict · distant future

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Distance: 0.1699

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