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Premise labels used: time loop, forced proximity, meet cute, opposites attract, friends to lovers, workplace romance, grief, memory loss

Setting labels used: near future, late 21st century, 2090s, San Francisco Bay Area, particle accelerator facility, scientific lab, top secret project, time loop reality

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Storm Echo

Nalini Singh · 2022 · Psy-Changeling Trinity

A guarded Psy and a wounded changeling healer are pulled together as love, memory loss, and a psychic crisis collide.

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Premise labels: fated mates · second chance romance · amnesia romance · forced separation · opposites attract · broken hero · healer heroine · psychic threat · end-of-world stakes · mate bond

Setting labels: late 21st century · San Francisco · futuristic world · alternate reality · PsyNet · DarkRiver territory · forest · wilderness training · pack territory · psychic network

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2222

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UnHappenings

Edward Aubry · 2015

A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · retroactive change · alternate timeline · butterfly effect · lost relationships · doomed love · future self · time paradox · personal stakes · memory of original timeline

Setting labels: future period · present-adjacent future · time travel universe · alternate reality · academic setting · laboratory setting

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Distance: 0.2235

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Version Control

Dexter Palmer · 2016

A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.

Why this is here

Premise labels: near future · causality violation · time travel · marriage crisis · grief · alternate reality · technology and society

Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · United States · information age · high-tech future

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Distance: 0.2260

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Rollback

Robert J. Sawyer · 2007

An elderly SETI scientist gets a shot at youth to decode an alien message, but the procedure changes only her husband.

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Premise labels: first contact · rejuvenation · age reversal · alien message · ethical dilemma · long-distance communication · marital strain · life extension

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · Canada · Earth · deep space communication · realistic future · scientific world

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Distance: 0.2263

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End of the World House

Adrienne Celt · 2022

In a near-future Paris trip, two lifelong friends are pulled into a looping Louvre mystery amid a world that refuses to end.

Why this is here

Premise labels: best friends · friendship breakup · time loop · apocalypse · post-apocalypse · alternate timelines · multiverse · museum mystery · missing friend · last hurrah

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · Paris · Louvre · San Francisco · Los Angeles · tech workplace · museum setting · ceasefire window · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2281

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The Third Rule of Time Travel

Philip Fracassi · 2025

A grieving scientist tests a limited time-travel device that only observes her past, until reality begins to shift.

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Premise labels: time travel experiment · limited time travel · consciousness travel · memory travel · observer only · scientific breakthrough · grief-driven research · corporate pressure · unintended consequences

Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · corporate research setting · tech company setting · time travel lab · domestic setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2393

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Hujan

Tere Liye · 2016

In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · post-disaster survival · star-crossed lovers · friendship bond · environmental collapse · future technology · lost memories

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath

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Distance: 0.2424

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2469

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The Drafter

Kim Harrison · 2015 · The Peri Reed Chronicles

A memory-fractured government operative races to expose corruption while untangling rewritten timelines and betrayals.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · time manipulation · conspiracy · secret agent · corruption · trust issues · on the run · false memories

Setting labels: futuristic Detroit · 2030 · near future · alternative world · post-urban decay · secret government

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Distance: 0.2485

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Neurovance

Alexandra St. Pierre · 2026

In a near-future memory-tech world, a bullied genius gets pulled into a dangerous, obsessive MM romance.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · memory manipulation · tech company · forbidden technology · stalker romance · identity crisis · forced involvement · hidden past · genius MC · near-future threat

Setting labels: near future · futuristic world · dystopian future · corporate setting · high-tech setting · AI · self-driving cars · memory tech · techno-reality

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Distance: 0.2492

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Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon

Annie Mare · 2025

A wrong-number text sparks a sapphic multiverse romance between women living five months apart, racing to stop a disappearance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: wrong-number text · missed connection · long-distance texting · parallel worlds · time-bending romance · timelines apart · find the timeline · disappearance mystery · soulmate romance · fated love

Setting labels: multiverse · parallel universes · Green Bay, Wisconsin · hair salon · contemporary setting · adult contemporary · October and May timelines · time travel reality

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Distance: 0.2503

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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Charlie Jane Anders · 2021

Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.

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Premise labels: genre-bending short fiction · wish fulfillment · precognition · time travel · apocalypse · relationship drama · social commentary · queer relationships · speculative social satire

Setting labels: near-future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space · San Francisco · California · divided nation · imaginary societies · alternate reality · future worlds · climate-changed future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2518

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