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Premise labels used: time-displaced teen, space mystery, alien artifact, school life, mysterious boy, forbidden connection, friendship breakup, future teen

Setting labels used: space colony, future Earth, high school, mansion, futuristic society, colonial space setting, alternate future

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Space Boy Volume 3

Stephen McCranie · 2019 · Space Boy

A time-displaced teen tries to build a new life on future Earth while old friendships, romance, and mysteries intensify.

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Premise labels: girl out of time · future Earth adjustment · friendship reunion · love triangle · school mystery · alien artifact · identity mystery · space travel

Setting labels: future Earth · high school · school club · deep space · mining colony · science fiction world · distant future

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Distance: 0.1271

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Space Boy Volume 2

Stephen McCranie · 2018 · Space Boy

A hopeful teen from a space colony navigates Earth school life while drawn to a strange, flavorless boy with secrets.

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Premise labels: new student · fish out of water · cultural adjustment · school life · mysterious boy · hidden identity · light sci-fi · friendship story · coming of age · mystery buildup

Setting labels: high school · Earth · space colony · future Earth · spacefaring future · science fiction world · everyday future · outer space · colony life

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Distance: 0.1467

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Shade, the Changing Girl, Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy

Cecil Castellucci · 2017 · Shade, the Changing Girl

An alien bored with her life steals a madness coat and wakes in a hated Earth teen's body, where school and identity turn surreal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: body swap · alien possession · high school drama · fish out of water · teen identity · coming of age · mystery · second chance

Setting labels: planet Meta · Earth · high school · hospital · alien world · contemporary setting · space travel · teen social world · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.1795

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Zoe's Tale

John Scalzi · 2008 · Old Man's War

A teenage colonist retells a familiar interstellar crisis from her own perspective, revealing the parts only she saw.

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Premise labels: teenage protagonist · parallel retelling · colonial crisis · interstellar politics · alien diplomacy · coming of age · colony survival · family stakes

Setting labels: space colony · interstellar · pioneer world · alien societies · planetary colonization · military future · fictional future

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Distance: 0.1812

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Martians Abroad

Carrie Vaughn · 2017

A Martian teen pilot hopeful is sent to elite school on Earth, where culture shock and strange accidents test her resolve.

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Premise labels: fish out of water · boarding school · space colony · culture shock · sibling duo · mystery · prestigious school · outsider status · pilot dream · conspiracy

Setting labels: Mars colony · Earth · future solar system · interplanetary society · boarding school · space stations · future Manhattan · elite academy · colonized solar system

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Distance: 0.1894

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The Stars Too Fondly

Emily Hamilton · 2024

A queer crew accidentally steals a spaceship and hurtles into a mystery, while one woman falls for the ship’s hologram captain.

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Premise labels: stolen spaceship · missing crew · space mission mystery · accidental launch · found family · forbidden romance · human-AI romance · galaxy-spanning adventure · time-displacement mystery

Setting labels: space · spaceship · deep space · near future · 2061 · Proxima Centauri · Proxima Centauri B · Earth in decline · off-world colony mission · alternate/soft sci-fi future · other dimension · multiverse

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Distance: 0.1919

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Zot!: The Complete Black-and-White Collection: 1987-1991

Scott McCloud · 2008 · Zot!

A teen superhero and an Earth girl cross between worlds, as comic-book adventure gradually yields to intimate human drama.

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Premise labels: alternate Earth · portal travel · utopian world · teen superhero · high school drama · interdimensional romance · earth-vs-utopia contrast · superhero deconstruction

Setting labels: alternate Earth · utopian future · our world · 1980s Earth · near-future · high school setting · urban Earth · retro-futurist world · parallel universe

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Distance: 0.1925

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Stray

Andrea K. Höst · 2011 · Touchstone

A stranded Australian teen survives an alien world, then learns she may be crucial to a psychic interworld war.

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Premise labels: displaced teen · alien planet · survival · portal crossing · rescue by aliens · fish out of water · new identity · power discovery · language barrier · forced integration

Setting labels: alien forest · alternate world · other planet · technologically advanced society · interdimensional gates · multiworld setting · human-like aliens · future tech · psionic world · abandoned world

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Distance: 0.1955

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Waste of Space

Stuart Gibbs · 2018 · Moon Base Alpha

On a moon base facing oxygen failure, a kid detective must solve a poisoning before everyone has to evacuate.

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Premise labels: poisoning mystery · space station crisis · investigation · race against time · child detective · locked-room mystery · evacuation

Setting labels: moon base · space colony · near-future · future Earth · low gravity · closed community · science-fictional setting

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Distance: 0.1985

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Cylinder van Troffa

Janusz A. Zajdel · 1990

A returning astronaut finds Earth transformed, and must navigate a fractured future while chasing what time left behind.

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Premise labels: lost astronaut · return from deep space · time dilation · future Earth · Lunar colony · personal quest · post-apocalyptic future · social collapse

Setting labels: Earth · Moon · space travel · post-apocalyptic world · future society · lunar colony · orbital settlement · off-world colonies · multi-level city

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Distance: 0.1997

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All-New X-Men, Vol. 7: The Utopians

Brian Michael Bendis · 2015 · All-New X-Men (2012) (Collected Editions)

Time-displaced X-Men face a cosmic crossover, a hidden mutant community, and a life-changing secret reveal.

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Premise labels: time-displaced heroes · mutant family · cosmic quest · crossover tie-in · secret mutant enclave · identity reveal

Setting labels: space adventure · Earth and space · Madripoor · Utopia · futuristic present · mutant society

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Distance: 0.2001

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The Hyperion Omnibus

Dan Simmons · 2004 · Hyperion Cantos

Seven pilgrims travel to a planet of time-twisting tombs and a terrifying creature as galaxy-scale war closes in.

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Premise labels: pilgrimage · galactic war · mysterious creature · time anomaly · interstellar conflict · far future · humanity at risk · mystery quest

Setting labels: far future · interstellar civilization · galactic empire · colonized planets · spacefaring society · time anomaly · future humanity · mysterious planet

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Distance: 0.2001

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