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Premise labels used: time travel, future war, space war, galactic colonization, missing comrades, fish out of water, enemy future, exoplanet search, artifact recovery, racially segregated society
Setting labels used: Antarctica, Soviet-controlled station, 1980s, 1989, 2989, far future, spacefaring civilization, galaxy, Earth abandoned, dystopian future, alternate history, white supremacist society, fourth reich, interplanetary war
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A displaced tailor lands on radioactive future Earth and is drawn into a galactic plot about power, prejudice, and survival.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · future Earth · galactic empire · radioactive Earth · persecuted outsiders · mind powers · prejudice
Setting labels: future Earth · Galactic Empire · far future · post-nuclear Earth · radioactive wasteland · galaxy-spanning human civilization
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1907
A near-future alien invasion turns Earth into a global war zone, forcing humans and a deeply alien foe to misread each other.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien invasion · first contact · Earth under siege · humanity vs aliens · spaceborne threat · global catastrophe · planetary invasion · survival struggle · cultural misunderstanding · forced surrender
Setting labels: mid-1980s · near future · Cold War · Earth · United States · Soviet Union · space station · mothership · global setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1959
A precognitive teen joins the Marines, determined to steer a galaxy-sized future disaster onto a survivable path.
Why this is here
Premise labels: precognition · future catastrophe · save the galaxy · military enlistment · time streams · long game · prophetic mission
Setting labels: far future · spacefaring civilization · colonized worlds · heavyworld · military future · Australia · terranean military · interstellar war · space warfare · galactic scale
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Distance: 0.1988
Seven pilgrims travel to a planet of time-twisting tombs and a terrifying creature as galaxy-scale war closes in.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1998
A restless war veteran and his wife gamble on relativity to escape a posthuman future, only for their trip to unravel into mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: postwar aftermath · time travel · relativistic travel · future jump · alienated veterans · escape plan · search for the unknown · fighting a new system · social exile · mystery
Setting labels: postwar future · distant future · spacefaring future · colony planet · barren planet · hive mind society · cloned society · military retirement colony · interstellar travel · Earth future
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Distance: 0.2034
Joe Bishop and Skippy race to stop an alien-engineered catastrophe while juggling alliances, battles, and fallout across the galaxy.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien threat · humanity under siege · galactic conflict · race against time · alliance building · unequal power struggle · save Earth · cleanup mission
Setting labels: spacefaring future · galaxy-wide · Earth in peril · interplanetary · alien civilizations · military space setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2036
A retired sailor off the Atlantic coast is pulled into a future war, a time-travel crisis, and a race to save Earth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien invasion · time travel · future war · survivor alliance · apocalyptic threat · military response · first contact
Setting labels: Atlantic Ocean · North Carolina · Antarctica · early 21st century · near future · 25th century · Earth · space battle · modern world · alternate timeline
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Distance: 0.2041
A crash investigator and a future rescuer collide across time when a doomed flight and a paradox threaten history.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · future rescue mission · air disaster · plane crash · paradox · causality loop · humanity survival · future-to-past retrieval · disaster recovery
Setting labels: 1980s · far future · dystopian future · post-nuclear future · polluted future · dying Earth · California · Washington DC · Oakland · aeronautics setting · future Earth
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Distance: 0.2043
An exiled Soviet writer time-travels to 2042 Moscow and finds a nightmarish, absurdly comic version of communism.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · political satire · anti-utopia · dystopian future · exile
Setting labels: 1980s · 1982 · 2042 · Munich · Moscow · Soviet Union · alternate future
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Distance: 0.2065
A Polity agent tracks alien nanotech, rogue AIs, and shifting loyalties as a future civilization nears crisis.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien technology · AI politics · space war · transhuman future · runcible time travel · technological contagion · civilization threat
Setting labels: far future · interstellar · Polity · Small Magellanic Cloud · spacefaring civilization · U-space · arcology world · Dyson sphere construction · runcible network · posthuman future
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Distance: 0.2067
Two stranded crews from different eras must survive a space rift while untangling a history that may be wrong.
Why this is here
Premise labels: accidental time travel · space anomaly · historical heroes · generational war · future encounter · survival dilemma · history rewrite · trapped crews
Setting labels: deep space · space rift · far future · future timeline · war-torn galaxy · alien conflict · closed-space setting · subspace
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2068
A landmark 1988 anthology framing early cyberpunk through 12 varied short stories and Bruce Sterling’s genre-defining intro.
Why this is here
Premise labels: high tech low life · near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk movement · street-level SF · alternative futures · time travel · alternate history · post-apocalyptic futures · body modification · designer drugs · space future · punk culture
Setting labels: near future · 1980s future · dystopian urban future · post-apocalyptic world · space station · alternate timeline · corporate future · low-tech high-tech mix · Soviet future · gated zones · mid-20th-century futurism
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2068
