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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for This Is How You Lose the Time War. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Premise labels used: rival agents, time war, enemy correspondence, forbidden love, secret letters, cross-time romance, espionage romance, opposing factions, clandestine relationship

Setting labels used: far future, time travel, multiverse, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, warring futures, dystopian future, post-human, speculative world

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.

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The Alien Bodyguard

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Taunting Krell

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