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T. Kingfisher

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Premise labels used: portal discovery, alternate realities, mysterious bunker, curiosity museum, divorce reset, otherworld expedition

Setting labels used: contemporary, North Carolina, museum setting, coffee shop, alternate dimension, interdimensional space, isolated small town, weird reality

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Nino Cipri · 2020 · LitenVerse

Two recently broken-up retail coworkers chase a missing grandmother through wormholes hidden in their store.

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Premise labels: wormhole quest · missing person · exes reunited · retail workplace · parallel worlds · rescue mission · corporate retrieval

Setting labels: IKEA-like store · big-box retail · multiverse · parallel universes · workplace setting · contemporary setting · labyrinthine interior · alternate dimensions

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Bridge

Lauren Beukes · 2023

A grieving daughter uses a mysterious worm to search alternate realities for her missing mother—and for herself.

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Premise labels: alternate realities · multiverse search · grieving daughter · missing mother · consciousness swap · identity search · dangerous discovery · rival pursuit

Setting labels: parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate reality · Portland · Haiti · Argentina · North Carolina

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Distance: 0.2162

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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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Black Science, Vol. 1: How to Fall Forever

Rick Remender · 2014 · Black Science (Single Issues)

A flawed scientist and his team are trapped hopping through dangerous alternate realities after their dimension device is sabotaged.

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Premise labels: dimension travel · multiverse · stranded explorers · homeward quest · broken device · alternate realities · science experiment gone wrong · survival journey

Setting labels: multiverse · alternate dimensions · parallel realities · alien worlds · surreal landscapes · off-world adventure · science fiction reality

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Distance: 0.2312

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Where the Hell is Tesla?

Rob Dircks · 2019 · Where the Hell is Tesla?

Two bumbling friends use Tesla’s lost notes to stumble through the multiverse while trying to get home and save him.

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Premise labels: multiverse adventure · Tesla device · lost in dimensions · search for Tesla · rescue mission · love story · buddy romp

Setting labels: multiverse · alternate universes · parallel realities · contemporary · urban · government facility · abandoned research center

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Distance: 0.2320

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The Shadow Lamp

Stephen R. Lawhead · 2013 · Bright Empires

In a multiverse-spanning quest, a large cast races to decode a missing map before reality itself unravels.

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Premise labels: quest · missing map · cosmic stakes · time travel · multiple seekers · survival quest · universe at risk · knowledge hunt

Setting labels: London · Prague · Damascus · Egypt · ancient Egypt · 16th-century coffee house · stone age · multiple Earths · multiple dimensions · multiverse · space and time

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Distance: 0.2328

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Into the Looking Glass

John Ringo · 2007 · Looking Glass

A physics accident opens spreading portals to alien worlds, forcing a scientist and a SEAL to stop Earth from being invaded.

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Premise labels: interdimensional gate · portal invasion · physics experiment gone wrong · save Earth · alien threat

Setting labels: present day · Florida · Earth · global · multiverse · other worlds · interdimensional reality

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Distance: 0.2389

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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: 0.2395

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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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Life Is Strange Vol. 4: Partners in Time - Tracks

Emma Vieceli · 2021 · Life is Strange Comics

Max keeps chasing her way back across timelines on a multiverse road trip where love, loss, and reality keep colliding.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · road trip · parallel timelines · reunion quest · multiverse journey · coming together

Setting labels: contemporary · alternate reality · parallel worlds · road trip setting · across America · travel narrative · multiversal setting · western tourist attraction

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The Obsidian Blade

Pete Hautman · 2012 · The Klaatu Diskos

A teen chases his missing parents through time portals that warp history, faith, and his family’s future.

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Premise labels: time travel · family mystery · missing parents · portal travel · faith crisis · destiny · alternate realities

Setting labels: small-town Minnesota · rural America · future world · alternate reality · historical periods · religious community · postdigital future

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The Replaced

Kimberly Derting · 2015 · The Taking

On the run from the NSA, a teen with strange abilities risks everything to rescue the boy she loves.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · returned survivors · on the run · search mission · government experiment · secret facility · rescued love interest · identity uncertainty · humanity question · hidden powers

Setting labels: contemporary Earth · government facilities · returned camp · road trip · secret lab · teen camp · shadow government · alien abduction setting

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Distance: 0.2443

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