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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Loosening Skin

Aliya Whiteley · 2018

In a world where skin-shedding erases love, a woman with a rare condition is pulled into a stolen-skins mystery.

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Premise labels: skin shedding · memory transfer · lost love · identity change · black market · stolen property · drug intervention · body-based metaphor

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel world · near-future · contemporary-like world · urban

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Heavenly Chaos

Daniel Schinhofen · 2024 · Heavenly Chaos

An abused teen awakens a rare healing power and enters academy life, where trauma, friendship, and progression collide.

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Premise labels: abused orphan · rare power awakening · academy training · regeneration power · social outsider · roommate tension · trauma recovery · hidden bloodline · rank progression · dungeon delving

Setting labels: academy · magical school · fantasy world · urban fantasy setting · cultivation world · government-sponsored academy · dungeon pockets · ranked world

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Gutter Child

Jael Richardson · 2021

In a divided dystopian society, a girl from the oppressed Gutter must navigate debt, identity, and freedom.

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Premise labels: class divide · indentured servitude · debt bondage · social experiment · coming of age · forged identity · freedom struggle · colonial allegory · institutional oppression

Setting labels: dystopian future · imagined world · alternate reality · colonized society · segregated society · academy setting · institutional setting · Mainland · Gutter

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Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2015 · Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

An alternate-universe Harry Potter uses science and rationality to probe magic, challenge Hogwarts, and remake his fate.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate universe · science and magic · rationalist protagonist · scientific method · magic system analysis · wizarding world critique · child prodigy · fascinated by science · science fiction literate · reimagined childhood

Setting labels: wizarding school · alternate universe · magical school · modern science lens · single school year · first year at Hogwarts · parallel world · rationalized magic

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Vicious

V.E. Schwab, Victoria Schwab · 2013 · Villains

Two brilliant college rivals test a theory about near-death powers, then spend years hunting each other for revenge.

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Premise labels: superpowers · revenge · academic experiment · near-death experiences · morally grey characters · anti-heroes · hero villain ambiguity · villain origin story · competition · betrayal

Setting labels: college · university · near-future · urban · gritty world · superhero world · scientific reality · alternate world

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Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang · 2025

A jealous art student uses mind-linking technology to stay close to her gifted friend in a near-future class-divided world.

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Premise labels: obsessive friendship · art school · mind access technology · art world · jealousy · competitive ambition · toxic closeness · trauma absorption

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternative future · art school · contemporary art world · class-segregated society · physically divided communities · wealth-divided society

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Apsara Engine

Bishakh Kumar Som · 2020

A graphic short-story collection where queer South Asian lives, myth, and speculative disruptions blur everyday reality into strange futures.

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Premise labels: short story collection · speculative twists · queer experience · trans identity · gender identity · body and self · everyday reality disrupted · mythic reworking · alternate futures · interconnected vignettes

Setting labels: contemporary settings · Brooklyn · New York · South Asian settings · diasporic setting · academic conference · fantastical worlds · science-fictional world · mythic world · transitional spaces

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Familiar

J. Robert Lennon · 2012

A grieving mother slips into a near-identical life where her dead son is alive and everything feels unsettlingly familiar.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate life · parallel universe · identity crisis · second chance · psychological disruption · family in crisis · parenthood · memory conflict

Setting labels: contemporary America · New York · university setting · family home · road trip · alternate reality · parallel universe

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson · 2008 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes from a coma with missing memories and uncovers a shocking secret about her body, family, and humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · coma recovery · identity mystery · hidden secret · bioethics dilemma · medical intervention · near-future crisis · humanity question

Setting labels: near future · near-future America · remote house · school setting · charter school · post-crisis society · medical-regulation society

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Distance: 0.2554

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Electric Forest

Tanith Lee · 1979

In a genetically perfect future, an ostracized woman accepts a new body from a mysterious benefactor with hidden motives.

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Premise labels: body transfer · beauty standards · identity crisis · social ostracism · scientific manipulation · espionage thriller · consciousness transfer · dystopian society · altered self

Setting labels: far future · alien planet · colonized world · genetically engineered society · class-stratified society · high-tech future · speculative future · corporate world · planetary setting

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Cover of M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel by Talia Dutton

M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

Talia Dutton · 2022

A grieving scientist resurrects her sister’s body, but the girl who returns is someone entirely new.

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Premise labels: resurrection · identity crisis · sibling loss · scientific experiment · body replacement · coming of age · self-discovery · family expectations · grief recovery

Setting labels: vaguely Victorian-esque · timeless setting · laboratory · domestic space · mirror world · gothic atmosphere · fantasy world

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Echo

Chani Lynn Feener · 2023 · The Devils of Vitality

A traumatized music prodigy is targeted by a possessive mafia heir who blackmails him into a dangerous, consuming bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: obsession · blackmail relationship · stalker romance · forced proximity · possessive love interest · trauma recovery · musician protagonist · mafia heir · power imbalance · enemy to lover

Setting labels: alternate planet · interplanetary travel · science-fiction world · university setting · college campus · mafia underworld · space mafia · otherworld · planetary politics · futuristic setting

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Distance: 0.2591

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