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Ken H. Warner

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Premise labels used: ancient aliens, hidden chamber, government conspiracy, fugitive teens, special powers, human origins, lost civilization, world-threatening threat

Setting labels used: Earth, Giza, Great Pyramid, Bermuda Triangle, Area 51, Atlantis, ancient alien reality, near-future speculative world

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Atlantis

Greg Donegan, Bob Mayer · 1999 · Atlantis

A military rescue mission uncovers a global network of ancient gates tied to Atlantis, aliens, and vanished history.

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Premise labels: ancient mystery · alien invasion · lost civilization · interdimensional gates · global disappearances · legend hunting · secret investigation · returning threat · world-threatening menace

Setting labels: Bermuda Triangle · Devil's Sea · Cambodia · Vietnam War era · present day · ancient Atlantis · global locations · jungle setting · mysterious fog · interdimensional setting

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Distance: 0.1621

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The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin · 2015 · Remembrance of Earth's Past

Facing a 400-year alien invasion, humanity hides its plans in human minds alone and bets civilization on secret strategists.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · human survival · secret strategy · hidden thoughts · cosmic threat · first-contact fallout

Setting labels: Earth · deep space · future Earth · far future · crisis era · cosmic scale · global setting

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Distance: 0.1850

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Portals

Douglas E. Richards · 2022

When hidden portals link Earth to human worlds beyond, two field agents must stop a conquest that could decide all worlds.

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Premise labels: portals to other worlds · hidden portals · human civilizations on other planets · technological misuse · protect humanity · interplanetary conquest · worlds at stake · advanced technology · alien rulers · near-future crisis

Setting labels: near future · Earth · other planets · Earth-like worlds · alternate worlds · interplanetary setting · contemporary world · advanced technology future

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Distance: 0.1925

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Halo: Cryptum

Greg Bear · 2011 · The Forerunner Saga

A rebellious young Forerunner’s treasure hunt pulls him into ancient politics, hidden history, and galaxy-shaping danger.

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Premise labels: ancient aliens · forbidden discovery · coming of age · lost civilization · galactic crisis · mystery of origins · ancient war · artifacts quest · prequel backstory · civilizational decline

Setting labels: ancient past · deep time · galactic scale · spacefaring civilization · alien empire · Halo universe · multiple planets · prehuman history · extraterrestrial society · cosmic setting

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Distance: 0.1943

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Augmented

James D. Prescott · 2019

An amnesiac CEO and a glaciologist uncover a conspiracy linking brain implants, climate crisis, and alien secrets.

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Premise labels: air shortage · brain enhancement · amnesia · murder frame-up · shadow conspiracy · alien technology · global survival · scientific mystery · government secrecy · ancient secrets

Setting labels: near future · Earth · Pacific Ocean · Antarctica · Moon · hydrothermal vents · deep sea · glaciology · space race · ancient past · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1965

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Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear · 2019 · White Space

A salvage engineer uncovers ancient alien tech and a conspiracy, forcing a run through deep space and into her own past.

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Premise labels: space salvage · ancient technology · hidden past · pirate chase · corrupt authority · post-scarcity society · identity crisis · galactic threat

Setting labels: far future · deep space · outer galaxy · galactic core · black hole · space stations · post-scarcity civilization · multi-species society · FTL travel

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Distance: 0.1968

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The Genesis Conspiracy

James D. Prescott · 2017

An archaeologist uncovers an ancient secret tied to Atlantis, time travel, and humanity's survival.

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Premise labels: lost civilization · ancient secret · human origins · time travel · archaeology · apocalypse · viral outbreak · conspiracy · ancient technology · race against time

Setting labels: ocean floor · underwater archaeology · prehistory · near future · contemporary · distant past · ancient world · mysterious land · glacial discovery

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Distance: 0.2001

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Doctor Who: Deep Time

Trevor Baxendale · 2015 · Doctor Who: The Glamour Chronicles

The Doctor and Clara join a deep-space expedition to a vanished alien route, where survival and secrets collide.

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Premise labels: lost civilization · wormhole expedition · deep space mission · ancient mystery · survival mission · secret revelation · exploration gone wrong · time anomaly · search for answers · endangered crew

Setting labels: deep space · far future · alien planet · wormhole · lost world · time fluctuations · interstellar travel · scientific expedition · inhospitable environment · outer space

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Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

Liu Cixin · 2017 · Remembrance of Earth's Past

A Chinese hard-SF trilogy where first contact becomes a vast, philosophical struggle over humanity’s survival.

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Premise labels: first contact · alien invasion · existential threat · humanity vs aliens · civilizational survival · cosmic threat · contact with superior beings · hidden strategy · dark forest · future history

Setting labels: China · Cultural Revolution · Earth · Solar System · deep space · interstellar · far future · future history · cosmic scale · hard SF universe · non-Western setting

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Transport

Phillip P. Peterson · 2016 · Transport

Death-row inmates are recruited to test an alien transport device that may lead them—and humanity—into danger.

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Premise labels: alien artifact · transport device · teleportation to other worlds · death row prisoners · dangerous mission · test subjects · secret project

Setting labels: Earth · California coast · ocean discovery · space travel · other solar systems · alien worlds · military facility

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Starship Sakira

Bob Blanton · 2019 · Delphi in Space

A diver finds a hidden alien starship, and a secret crew must use its tech to uplift Earth without exposure.

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Premise labels: found spaceship · alien AI · chosen captain · secret technology · uplift humanity · prepare Earth · avoid government · hidden starship · underwater discovery · human-alien contact

Setting labels: Earth · underwater cave · Pacific Ocean · spacefaring future · galaxy · interplanetary travel · our world

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Rama Revealed

Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee · 1993 · Rama

The Rama saga reaches its final reckoning as humans, aliens, and old questions collide aboard an immense mystery ship.

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Premise labels: alien megastructure · mystery reveal · first contact aftermath · human colony · escape from imprisonment · search for answers · ancient intelligence

Setting labels: deep space · inside alien spacecraft · interstellar journey · artificial world · colony habitat · far-future · spacefaring civilization · multiple alien habitats

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Distance: 0.2058

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