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Bryce O'Connor, Luke Chmilenko

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Premise labels used: underdog rise, training school, power progression, combat tournament, military academy, alien war, superpowered armor, AI selection, found family

Setting labels used: military academy, spacefaring future, interstellar empire, school setting, alien war, advanced technology, cyberpunk future, arena combat

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Fire and Song

Bryce O'Connor · 2023 · Warformed: Stormweaver

A rising cadet faces a high-stakes tournament as hidden powers, team bonds, and larger forces close in.

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Premise labels: academy competition · tournament arc · power progression · underdog rise · team battle · war preparation · mysterious threat

Setting labels: military school · college setting · academy setting · tournament setting · inter-school competition · science fiction future · spacefaring setting · war-torn future

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Distance: 0.1135

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Initiate

Joshua Anderle, Michael Anderle · 2018 · Animus

A former gang member gets a shot at an elite VR academy where combat, teamwork, and a snarky AI could remake his life.

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Premise labels: elite academy · military training · virtual reality training · AI implant · gang member to recruit · second chance · skill progression · debt training · alien integration · combat missions

Setting labels: near future · Earth · intergalactic academy · elite school · virtual reality environment · academy life · military academy · alien contact

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Distance: 0.1560

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Rogue

Tana Stone · 2020 · Alien Warrior Academy

A human racer joins an alien military academy and clashes with her gruff instructor as sabotage and desire collide.

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Premise labels: alien military academy · human recruits · special skills · training for invasion · traitor mystery · forbidden attraction · opposites attract

Setting labels: alien planet · military academy · academy setting · training school · future setting · space setting · alien culture · clan society

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Distance: 0.1669

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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay

Orson Scott Card · 2013

A full-cast audio drama rewrites Ender’s Game as a dialogue-only battle-school saga with high stakes and heavy cuts.

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Premise labels: child genius · battle school · alien war · military training · do-or-die stakes · humanity at risk · leadership trial · child soldier · strategic training · anti-alien conflict

Setting labels: future · space academy · military school · battle room · zero gravity · outer space · Earth · alien war · science fiction world

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Distance: 0.1672

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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School

Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card · 2009 · Ender's Saga (Graphic Novels)

A gifted child is recruited into a brutal space academy to train for humanity’s next war against aliens.

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Premise labels: child prodigy · military training · alien invasion · elite school · humanity survival · psychological testing · chosen child · command training

Setting labels: space station · future war · military school · zero gravity · futuristic · Earth under threat · fictional academy · alien war

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Distance: 0.1708

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The Combat Codes

Alexander Darwin · 2023 · The Combat Codes Saga

In a war-shattered future, a retired champion scouts a gifted orphan into a brutal combat academy.

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Premise labels: single combat · academy training · underdog fighter · mentor mentee · war replacement · dystopian society

Setting labels: dystopian future · war-ravaged world · combat academy · underground fighting rings · single-combat society · science fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1721

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Insignia

S.J. Kincaid · 2012 · Insignia

A teenage gamer is recruited into a futuristic war program where brain tech, VR combat, and corporate power collide.

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Premise labels: teen recruit · virtual warfare · gaming prodigy · military academy · brain implant · corporate war · space battle · underdog hero

Setting labels: future Earth · World War III · space warfare · virtual reality · military school · corporate-controlled world · near future

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An Officer's Duty

Jean Johnson · 2012 · Theirs Not to Reason Why

A precognitive soldier enters officer training while trying to prepare her family and the galaxy for a coming war.

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Premise labels: precognition · future-saving mission · military academy · officer training · galactic survival · duty vs desire

Setting labels: spacefaring future · military future · academy setting · colony world · heavyworld colony · alien conflict · interstellar politics · space navy

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Distance: 0.1808

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Toll of Honor

David Weber · 2024 · Honorverse

An Honorverse interquel revisits key wartime events through new eyes while a wounded officer finds her place in the fleet.

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Premise labels: alternate viewpoints · backstory expansion · war backstory · duel aftermath · frontline operations · career aftermath · political fallout

Setting labels: spacefaring future · interstellar war · naval setting · military academy · starship setting · planetary politics · wartime homefront

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Distance: 0.1836

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Vortex

S.J. Kincaid · 2013 · Insignia

A rebellious cadet in a corporate-run future must choose between career advancement, friends, and his ideals.

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Premise labels: military training · elite academy · future war · corporate control · loyalty test · corruption · sponsor politics · technological augmentation · virtual reality training

Setting labels: future USA · space war · military academy · boarding school · VR training · dystopian society · corporate-run state · Pentagonal Spire

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Fugitive Six

Pittacus Lore · 2018 · Lorien Legacies Reborn

A teen team with alien powers hunts a mole and a secret enemy as their school fractures into rival sides.

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Premise labels: superpowered teens · alien invasion aftermath · academy training · kidnapping rescue · secret organization · mole hunt · factions split · power struggle

Setting labels: academy setting · post-invasion Earth · near future · secret school · global conflict · dystopian Earth

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Steel World

B.V. Larson · 2013 · Undying Mercenaries

A broke college dropout joins Earth’s mercenary legions and is sent to a dangerous alien world where death isn’t the end.

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Premise labels: forced enlistment · galactic empire · mercenary soldiers · proxy wars · revival tech · near-immortality · space combat · war for survival

Setting labels: near future · interstellar empire · alien planets · frontier military · space war · distant future

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Distance: 0.1859

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