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Premise labels used: interstellar war, time travel drug, marital breakdown, political intrigue, medical crisis, alternate realities
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A battle-hardened admiral tries to secure peace while hidden powers ignite a wider war across rival star nations.
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Premise labels: interstellar war · peace negotiation · enemy conspiracy · military escalation · political crisis · diplomatic mission
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Distance: 0.1412
A multipart Honorverse bridge novel follows Michelle Henke as politics, espionage, and war push Manticore toward crisis.
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Premise labels: political intrigue · interstellar conflict · war manipulation · peace talks · frontier crisis · secret conspiracy · two-front war · naval escalation
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Distance: 0.1632
A drafted soldier fights an interstellar war where near-light travel turns every return home into a leap centuries ahead.
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Premise labels: interstellar war · relativistic time dilation · reluctant conscript · returning veteran · alien conflict · homecoming alienation
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Distance: 0.1639
A galactic diarist bumbles through bizarre voyages that turn space adventure into satire, philosophy, and time-loop chaos.
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Premise labels: space voyages · time travel · robot world · interstellar travel · bureaucratic absurdity · social satire · philosophical speculation · undercover investigation
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Distance: 0.1648
Ax and the Animorphs are swept from a covert mission into a larger alien war, forcing Ax to choose where he belongs.
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Premise labels: alien war · morphing technology · body displacement · rescue mission · loyalty crisis · found family · interstellar conflict
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Distance: 0.1655
A Polity agent tracks alien nanotech, rogue AIs, and shifting loyalties as a future civilization nears crisis.
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Premise labels: alien technology · AI politics · space war · transhuman future · runcible time travel · technological contagion · civilization threat
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Distance: 0.1656
Under alien rule, humans use a wormhole-linked time gate in a bid to alter their fate across centuries.
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Premise labels: time travel · alien occupation · human resistance · wormhole technology · time gate · future humanity · cosmic-scale conflict
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Distance: 0.1670
A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.
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Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · parallel timelines · multiple realities · powers · new mystery · identity crisis · displaced protagonist · missing life
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Distance: 0.1675
A broke would-be composer boards a relativistic colony ship after a love-and-family betrayal, only to face cosmic disaster.
Why this is here
Premise labels: interstellar travel · colonial ship · coming of age · broken romance · wealth inequality · family power · survival crisis · humanity survival
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Distance: 0.1679
A war-weary naval grunt is pulled back into interstellar power games, covert ops, and a fight to expose the truth.
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Premise labels: interstellar war · corporate domination · reluctant hero · covert missions · political intrigue · espionage · diplomacy · military debt · occupied territory
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Distance: 0.1687
The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack uncover stolen Time Lord tech on an alien black market and a looming temporal war.
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Premise labels: Time travel technology · Black market · Interstellar war · Temporal conflict · Post-Time War fallout · Alien factions · Preventing history repetition
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Distance: 0.1718
An interstellar antiquities dealer and his pilot trace a mind-wiped author's final clues into a mystery with galactic stakes.
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Premise labels: interstellar mystery · memory wipe · cryptic message · missing person · ancient secret · political cover-up · galactic crisis · alien diplomacy
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1725
