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Premise labels used: lab death, scientific mystery, locked-room mystery, scientific investigation, academic intrigue, physics lab mystery, corporate secrecy, mole hunt

Setting labels used: CERN, Geneva, Swiss laboratory, particle collider, physics lab, science campus, international research institute, Swiss-French border, high-energy physics

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Quantum Radio

A.G. Riddle · 2023

A CERN physicist decodes a mysterious signal and is pulled into a multiverse conspiracy that could reshape history.

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Premise labels: scientific discovery · mystery signal · secret message · parallel universes · alternate history · man on the run · conspiracy · future control · world-changing breakthrough

Setting labels: CERN · Geneva · Large Hadron Collider · quantum physics · multiverse · alternate universe · parallel world · World War II alternate history · Nazi-dominated world · dystopian world · 20th century history · near future

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Distance: 0.2227

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Flashforward

Robert J. Sawyer · 2000

A CERN experiment triggers a global blackout and a glimpse of the future, forcing humanity to confront fate and free will.

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Premise labels: global blackout · collective future vision · foreknowledge dilemma · scientific accident · future uncertainty · free will dilemma · mystery investigation

Setting labels: CERN · particle accelerator · near future · future jump · global setting · Switzerland · 2009 · 2030 · scientific laboratory

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Distance: 0.2435

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La mosca - Relatos del antimundo

George Langelaan · 2001 · Antología Luis de Caralt

A scientist’s matter-transmission experiment goes horribly wrong, and a murder confession hides the reason.

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Premise labels: scientist gone wrong · matter transmission · forbidden experiment · murder mystery · body transformation · scientific hubris

Setting labels: France · French setting · scientific laboratory · factory

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Distance: 0.2459

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Dragonfly Girl: A Spellbinding YA Science Thriller About a Cure for Death and Deadly International Rivalry

Marti Leimbach · 2021

A brilliant but socially isolated teen wins a science prize, then a lab discovery pulls her into dangerous international intrigue.

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Premise labels: science prodigy · deadly discovery · medical breakthrough · cure for death · undercover lab job · prestigious competition · international rivalry · secrets and lies · financial desperation · girl in STEM · threatened by discovery

Setting labels: high school · laboratory · science competition · Stockholm · Sweden · Europe · California · Russia · international setting · contemporary world · real-world science setting · academic research setting · underground lab · secret lab · ballrooms

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The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu · 2023

In a locked-down future lab, a grieving scientist’s son hunts his father’s killer with help from the lab’s AI.

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Premise labels: locked-room mystery · revenge quest · immortality research · lab lockdown · murder investigation · AI companion · futuristic retelling · family betrayal

Setting labels: near future · scientific lab · locked building · isolated location · Danish setting · 2040s · 2050s · dystopian future · one-night setting · experimental facility

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Distance: 0.2782

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The Receiver

Seth Jaffe · 2025

A hard-science first-contact thriller where scattered investigators uncover a cosmic mystery tied to secrecy and espionage.

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Premise labels: first contact · scientific discovery · particle mystery · cryptic message · international espionage · government secrecy · research thriller · cosmic stakes

Setting labels: near future · Earth · space science · interstellar · international · library · military · scientific research

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Distance: 0.2837

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The Fear Index

Robert Harris · 2011

A Geneva hedge fund genius’s AI-driven trading system and his life begin to unravel after a security breach.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · hedge fund · rogue algorithm · financial markets · fear prediction · home invasion · paranoia · mysterious stalking · market manipulation · scientific hubris · creator and creation

Setting labels: Geneva · Switzerland · hedge fund world · high finance · financial markets · cyberspace · lakeside house · contemporary setting · CERN · global markets

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Distance: 0.2846

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Quantum Space

Douglas Phillips · 2023 · Quantum

When a Soyuz capsule vanishes on reentry, two scientists uncover a quantum mystery that could reshape human contact.

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Premise labels: missing astronauts · spaceflight mystery · quantum physics · first contact · interstellar communication · classified project · scientific investigation · humanity at risk · space rescue

Setting labels: near future · Kazakhstan · Russian Soyuz · International Space Station · Fermilab · Chicago area · Washington DC · lab settings · office settings · Earthbound science

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Distance: 0.2891

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Ball Lightning

Liu Cixin · 2018

A scientist haunted by childhood tragedy pursues the mystery of ball lightning, pulling him into military research and radical physics.

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Premise labels: obsession · scientific mystery · weaponization · rare phenomenon · pursuit of knowledge · military research · physics discovery · ethical conflict · natural anomaly · lone investigator

Setting labels: modern day China · stormy mountaintops · military lab · scientific station · Chinese military · Russian military circles · experimental research setting · real-world setting

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Distance: 0.2893

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Flybot

Dennis E. Taylor · 2025

A physicist finds impossible tech, and he and a colleague are pulled into a near-future AI mystery with deadly consequences.

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Premise labels: mysterious tech · rogue AI · scientists in over their heads · man vs AI · corporate espionage · tech mystery · near-future AI

Setting labels: near future · Earth · research lab · scientific research community · corporate espionage setting · observed tracked environment

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The Chain of Chance

Stanisław Lem · 1998

An ex-astronaut investigates a string of mysterious deaths, uncovering a puzzle of chance, causality, and probability.

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Premise labels: investigation · mysterious deaths · unexplained deaths · series of deaths · chance and causality · probability puzzle · detective mission · former astronaut detective · private detective · scientific inquiry · philosophical mystery · alternative explanation · conspiracy or coincidence

Setting labels: futuristic Italy · near future · Italy · Naples · Rome · Paris · health spa · airport · hallucinatory world

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Original Sin

Jason Aaron, Mark Waid, Charles Soule, Ryan North, Dan Slott, James Robinson, Al Ewing, Chip Zdarsky · 2014 · Original Sin

A Marvel-wide murder mystery follows heroes hunting Watcher’s killer while stolen secrets shake the universe.

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Premise labels: murder mystery · whodunit · cosmic mystery · stolen secrets · investigation · superhero crossover · secret reveal · man on the wall

Setting labels: Marvel Universe · space · the Moon · cosmic setting · Earth · New York · deep space · subterranean · mystical dimension · alternate realms

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Distance: 0.2964

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