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Premise labels used: academic abuse, mind reading, identity crisis, self-splitting, magical psychiatry, toxic mentorship, trauma recovery, ethical mind alteration

Setting labels used: university setting, graduate school, academic institution, England, United States, contemporary setting, alternate world, magic-as-normal world, academic magic

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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2023 · Vita Nostra (English)

A gifted student returns to an eerie magical institute where language shapes reality and failure could remake the world.

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Premise labels: magical education · reality manipulation · language magic · coming-of-age · return to school · world-threatening powers · failed exam · second chance · special student

Setting labels: academic institution · magical school · contemporary setting · alternate reality · multiverse · time loops · Russian-language origin

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Distance: 0.2083

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A Slip under the Microscope

H.G. Wells · 2015

Two short, ambiguous Wells stories explore a hidden doorway and an exam slip-up through regret, choice, and conscience.

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Premise labels: moral dilemma · lost opportunities · childhood longing · secret door · academic rivalry · honesty vs success · social mobility · guilt

Setting labels: school · university · academia · real world · slightly fantastical world · portal fantasy

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Distance: 0.2174

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The Adjustment

Suzanne Young · 2017 · The Program

A returner’s lost memories tempt a couple into a risky therapy that could restore love—or expose a devastating truth.

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Premise labels: memory loss · memory recovery · love after erasure · aftermath · experimental therapy · returners

Setting labels: dystopian school setting · after the Program · near-future world

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Distance: 0.2349

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The Infinite Noise

Lauren Shippen · 2019 · The Bright Sessions

A teen empath in high school learns to manage overwhelming feelings while falling for a classmate who quiets the noise.

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Premise labels: empath powers · therapy · high school romance · secret abilities · self-discovery · first love · emotional overload

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · therapeutic setting · fictional superpower world · teen social environment

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Distance: 0.2367

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That Hideous Strength

C.S. Lewis · 1987 · The Space Trilogy

A newly married academic couple is pulled into a battle over mind control, myth, and spiritual evil on Earth.

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Premise labels: anti-totalitarian · scientific control · inner circle · marriage under strain · spiritual warfare · apocalyptic conspiracy · academic intrigue · technocracy · good vs evil · prophetic dreams

Setting labels: Earth · England · university setting · college setting · academic setting · fantastic realism · mythic reality

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Distance: 0.2398

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The Power

Naomi Alderman · 2017

Girls worldwide suddenly gain lethal electrical power, upending gender hierarchies and triggering global upheaval.

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Premise labels: gender reversal · power shift · female empowerment · power corruption · electrical power · supernatural ability · global upheaval · role reversal · thought experiment

Setting labels: contemporary world · near future · global setting · United States · United Kingdom · Nigeria · religious institution · matriarchy · dystopian world · post-cataclysm future · alternate history

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Distance: 0.2404

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Calculated Risks

Seanan McGuire · 2021 · InCryptid

Stranded in a strange dimension and erased from her family’s memories, Sarah must win back trust and find a way home.

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Premise labels: alternate dimension · memory loss · found family · survival quest · homeward journey · family trust · math problem · telepathic species · ethical telepathy · identity crisis

Setting labels: alternate dimension · parallel world · college campus · Iowa State University · urban fantasy world · alien ecosystem · multi-dimensional · non-Earth setting · parallel society

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Distance: 0.2457

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Slug and Other Stories

Megan Milks · 2021

A queer experimental story collection where bodies, desires, and genres mutate into grotesque, funny, and startling forms.

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Premise labels: body transformation · queer embodiment · gender fluidity · grotesque eroticism · genre fusion · identity crisis · transgression · sexual deviance · absurdist fiction · experimental narrative

Setting labels: contemporary · speculative reality · surreal reality · pop culture-inflected · video game world · school setting · domestic setting

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Distance: 0.2465

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The Good Parts

Evann Normandin · 2026

A grieving husband follows his wife after a memory-erasing treatment, hoping to win back a love she no longer remembers.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · second chance · lost love · love after loss · fresh start · identity reset · trauma escape · reconnection

Setting labels: Edinburgh · Scotland · college setting · Vermont · American university · contemporary setting · present day · past timeline

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Distance: 0.2488

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The Wizard's Dilemma

Diane Duane · 2005 · Young Wizards

A teen wizard must confront her mother’s terminal illness when magic cannot easily save the person she loves most.

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Premise labels: teen wizard · illness dilemma · parental loss · deal with evil · life or death choice · magic cannot fix everything

Setting labels: contemporary world · alternate worlds · pocket universes · wizarding reality · school-age setting

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Distance: 0.2493

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Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

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Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption

Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2498

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False Memory

Dean Koontz · 2001

A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.

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Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat

Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world

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Distance: 0.2509

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