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Premise labels used: teleportation, survival trap, single-location terror, family fear, madness

Setting labels used: future world, Mars travel, desert island, family home, isolated space

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Lies, Inc.

Philip K. Dick · 1984

In a crowded future, a suspicious heir crosses space to test a one-way colony’s promise of paradise.

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Premise labels: overpopulation crisis · one-way teleportation · colonized paradise · corporate cover-up · truth-seeking voyage · interstellar investigation · space colonization · security state

Setting labels: future Earth · overpopulated world · space colony · distant planet · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · paraworlds · dystopian future · postwar future

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Distance: 0.1987

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Star Splitter

Matthew J. Kirby · 2023

A teen arrives on a ruined alien world and must survive a crash, a duplicate self, and a mystery gone wrong.

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Premise labels: teleportation · body transfer · body printing · duplicate self · planetary expedition · crash survival · space mystery · post-extinction world · family reunion

Setting labels: deep space · space station · spaceship · alien planet · desolate planet · post-extinction world · lightyears from Earth · future Earth · planetary research mission · off-world colony

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Distance: 0.1996

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Glass Houses

Madeline Ashby · 2024

After a tech-company plane crash, survivors find a high-tech island house whose secrets turn survival into paranoia.

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Premise labels: plane crash · island survival · locked room · tech startup · mysterious house · killer among survivors · emotion as currency · AI house · corporate retreat · stranded coworkers

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · deserted island · tropical island · isolated mansion · smart home · techno-dystopia

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Distance: 0.2006

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Firstborn

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter · 2007 · A Time Odyssey

A time-split Earth faces a new alien doomsday threat as Bisesa Dutt races across worlds for a way to save humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien threat · doomsday device · race against time · humanity versus aliens · time-sliced Earth · alternate Earth · cosmic survival · civilizational conflict

Setting labels: near future · Earth · Mars · Mir · alternate reality · spacefaring future · time-sliced world · solar system

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Distance: 0.2012

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No Way

S.J. Morden · 2019 · Frank Kitteridge

Alone on Mars and hiding a deadly secret, Frank must outwit a ruthless corporation before NASA arrives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: stranded survivor · Mars survival · corporate conspiracy · return home · space base · cover-up

Setting labels: Mars · near future · space base · isolated habitat · corporate mission · NASA mission · distant planet

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Distance: 0.2012

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Transport

Phillip P. Peterson · 2016 · Transport

Death-row inmates are recruited to test an alien transport device that may lead them—and humanity—into danger.

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Premise labels: alien artifact · transport device · teleportation to other worlds · death row prisoners · dangerous mission · test subjects · secret project

Setting labels: Earth · California coast · ocean discovery · space travel · other solar systems · alien worlds · military facility

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Distance: 0.2014

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The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin · 2015 · Remembrance of Earth's Past

Facing a 400-year alien invasion, humanity hides its plans in human minds alone and bets civilization on secret strategists.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · human survival · secret strategy · hidden thoughts · cosmic threat · first-contact fallout

Setting labels: Earth · deep space · future Earth · far future · crisis era · cosmic scale · global setting

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Distance: 0.2039

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Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water

Vylar Kaftan · 2019

A telepath trapped in a cave prison with only her lover starts hearing another mind that may expose everything.

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Premise labels: telepath prison · memory loss · escape attempt · survival · hidden truth · mind prison · forbidden telepathy · survival under oppression

Setting labels: prison planet · underground caverns · labyrinth · alien world · future · dystopian future · claustrophobic setting · mindscape

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Distance: 0.2059

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The Ophiuchi Hotline

John Varley · 1977 · Eight Worlds

A cloned geneticist navigates post-Earth solar-system politics, alien tech, and a looming interstellar reckoning.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · post-Earth humanity · mysterious data stream · technological uplift · clone survival · reclaim Earth · deadly debt

Setting labels: far future · solar system · Moon colonies · Jovian space · Pluto · airless worlds · Earth occupied

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Distance: 0.2063

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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

Harlan Ellison · 1969

A 15-story speculative fiction collection mixing experimental, dark, provocative tales with apocalypse, satire, and shock.

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Premise labels: mind-bending ideas · experimental story · psychological horror · cosmic evil · post-apocalyptic survival · road rage · time travel · multiverse · spy spoof · political satire · desert quest · surreal apocalypse · telepathic animal · dystopian conflict

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic wasteland · desert · subterranean world · space · alternate universes · multiverse · science fictional future

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Distance: 0.2070

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Kill Switch

Jonathan Maberry · 2016 · Joe Ledger

A black-ops team races to stop an EMP-driven terror plot while mind control, monsters, and fallout unravel everything.

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Premise labels: terrorist threat · EMP attack · blackout crisis · race against time · world-saving mission · mind control · Lovecraftian horror

Setting labels: United States · Antarctica · Pacific Northwest · alternate dimension · parallel universe · real-world near-future · military operations

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Distance: 0.2076

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The Naked Alien

Honey Phillips · 2021 · Exposed to the Elements

A human woman and an alien commander wake naked on a jungle planet and must survive, communicate, and resist attraction.

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Premise labels: alien planet survival · stranded together · language barrier · forced proximity · abduction mystery

Setting labels: alien jungle · alien planet · spacefaring future · foreign environment

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Distance: 0.2078

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