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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

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

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

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School of Shards

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2025 · Vita Nostra (English)

A magic-school provost must repair a reality she reshaped, training new students while speech itself begins to fail.

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Premise labels: magic school · language magic · reality shaping · world collapse · teacher student reversal · saving the world · next generation · mystery curriculum

Setting labels: isolated school · academy setting · small town · pocket dimension · post-Soviet atmosphere · alternative reality · world without fear · cosmic reality

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Distance: 0.1675

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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: 0.1903

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The Rithmatist

Brandon Sanderson · 2014 · Rithmatist

A chalk-based magic-school mystery follows a boy who can’t do the magic but knows it better than anyone.

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Premise labels: magic school · forbidden knowledge · underdog investigator · missing students · chosen elite · school mystery

Setting labels: alternate history · gearpunk · magical academy · school setting · American Isles · wartime setting

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Distance: 0.1962

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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

A science-minded Harry Potter retools magic with logic and rationality in a sprawling alternate-universe first year.

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Premise labels: alternate universe · science-minded protagonist · magic and science · rationalist approach · reimagined familiar world · coming to magic · problem solving

Setting labels: alternate universe · wizarding school · magical Britain · school year setting · modern scientific frame · Hogwarts-like setting

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Distance: 0.2015

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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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Distance: 0.2072

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The Two Doctors Górski

Isaac Fellman · 2022

A traumatized graduate student in magical psychiatry confronts an abusive mentor, mind reading, and a split self.

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

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

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Distance: 0.2083

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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: 0.2112

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Grey Sister

Mark Lawrence · 2018 · Book of the Ancestor

A deadly novice must choose her path while enemies, politics, and buried truths close in on Sweet Mercy.

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Premise labels: training school · assassin order · mystic powers · coming of age · revenge · political intrigue · religious power struggle · ending world

Setting labels: convent setting · school setting · monastery · imperial politics · icy world · dying planet · corridor civilization · fantasy world · religious institution

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Distance: 0.2202

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Ra

qntm, Sam Hughes · 2018

A student mage in a world where magic is engineering probes her mother’s mystery as reality keeps expanding around her.

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Premise labels: magic as science · magic engineering · scientific mystery · space ambition · mother mystery · hidden reality · simulation theory · world-scale stakes

Setting labels: alternate history · modern world · 1970s discovery · engineering culture · industrial magic · academic magic · space program · dream world · simulation · parallel realities · far future · cosmic scale

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Distance: 0.2206

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Gatefather

Orson Scott Card · 2015 · Mither Mages

A gifted teen mage faces possession, mythic politics, and a final struggle over souls, gates, and worlds.

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Premise labels: chosen mage · gate magic · hidden powers · family conflict · world-hopping · apocalyptic stakes · possession · good versus evil · mythic reinterpretation

Setting labels: modern day · contemporary world · parallel worlds · secondary world · Earth · otherworld · mythic setting · afterlife · high school

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Revisionary

Jim C. Hines · 2016 · Magic Ex Libris

After magic is revealed to the world, a book-powered librarian must fight fear, politics, and war to protect everyone.

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Premise labels: book magic · revealed magic · magical fallout · government control · magical war · magical oppression · conspiracy · bookish hero

Setting labels: modern world · contemporary setting · alternate reality · magical society · government institutions · Congressional hearings · research institute

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Distance: 0.2252

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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: 0.2295

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