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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for The Ugly Little Boy.
Premise labels used: time travel experiment, neanderthal child, scientific study, caretaker bond, ethics of science, humanity debate, child welfare, past extraction
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A Neanderthal stranded in modern London leads the Doctor, Rose, and Jack into a time-travel mystery at humanity’s dawn.
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Premise labels: time anomaly · displaced human · prehistoric humanity · fish-out-of-water · time travel experiment · humanity test · first contact
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Distance: 0.1493
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
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Distance: 0.2050
A time-traveling trio is pulled into 1918 Russia and must race to save the Romanov children before history closes in.
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Premise labels: time travel mission · missing child · identity mystery · history rescue · kidnapped children · predestination dilemma
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Distance: 0.2057
A paleontologist joins a secret time-travel project to study living dinosaurs, only to face paradoxes, sabotage, and survival.
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Premise labels: time travel · dinosaur research · scientific expedition · secret project · paleontology · survival story · causality crisis · extinction mystery · scientific inquiry
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Distance: 0.2080
A group of time-shifting teens cross into new wallfolds and race to stop Garden’s destruction while trust frays.
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Premise labels: time travel · world-saving mission · trust issues · parallel societies · hidden history · crossing barriers · adolescent quest
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Distance: 0.2103
A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
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Premise labels: time slip · involuntary time travel · exponential time jumps · father and son · family separation · future witness · search for answers · trying to reverse time travel · humanity's future
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Distance: 0.2105
A low-status teen is recruited to verify histories by time travel, then one mistake rewrites his entire world.
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Premise labels: time travel assignment · historical verification · alternate timeline · social hierarchy · secret institute · history alteration · moral dilemma · cause and effect
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Distance: 0.2144
A security chief and stranded townspeople are hurled through time by repeating energy waves, fighting monsters to get home.
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Premise labels: time travel · temporal anomaly · small-town survival · rescue mission · return home · family reunion · scientific experiment · alternate timeline · collective displacement
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Distance: 0.2166
Nine idea-driven SF stories probe time, memory, AI, faith, and free will through inventive speculative scenarios.
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Premise labels: thought experiment · what if · technological change · free will · alternate realities · time travel · artificial intelligence · memory · human condition
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Distance: 0.2168
A young man inherits a time belt and discovers time travel means meeting, changing, and becoming versions of himself.
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Premise labels: time machine inheritance · alternate selves · time travel paradoxes · identity crisis · self-discovery · self-interaction · multiple timelines · power over history · limited time travel · time travel consequences
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Distance: 0.2177
A young scientist racing to invent time travel must outwit fate, paradox, and his own future self.
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Premise labels: time travel · bootstrap paradox · fate vs choice · preventing tragedy · changing the future · hidden truth · memory restoration · past self encounter · science puzzle · coming of age
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Distance: 0.2205
A science-loving girl lands a summer time-travel internship and must compete with kids from across history to save a museum.
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Premise labels: time travel internship · museum quest · competition for a position · team of kids from different eras · protect the museum · historical adventure
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2210
