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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for The Prestige. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Premise labels used: magician rivalry, feud, revenge, obsession, mystery box, family legacy, stage magic, misdirection

Setting labels used: Victorian England, London, modern-day frame, country house, stage magic world, late 19th century, turn of the century, historical speculative

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Rubinrot

Kerstin Gier · 2009 · Edelstein-Trilogie

A teen girl discovers she's the real time-travel heir in a secret family line and is swept into a hidden London intrigue.

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Premise labels: time-travel gene · secret family · secret society · chosen girl · reluctant heir · forced mission · past-and-present entanglement · romantic complication

Setting labels: London · England · Victorian era · historical London · contemporary London · dual timeframe · past and present · British setting · urban fantasy

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Distance: 0.2412

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Alistair Grim's Odditorium

Gregory Funaro · 2015 · Odditorium

A chimney sweep boy stows away into a flying magical house and becomes the apprentice who must save it from dark forces.

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Premise labels: orphaned chimney sweep · secret magical house · apprentice hero · found family · dangerous magical artifact collection · evil power grab · hidden magical world · unlikely hero · runaway child · magical apprenticeship

Setting labels: Victorian London · 19th century England · alternate history · magical London · flying house · steampunk setting · gothic atmosphere · enchanted mansion · fantastical workshop

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Distance: 0.2479

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Cogheart

Peter Bunzl · 2016 · The Cogheart Adventures

A girl, a clockmaker's son, and a mechanical fox race through steampunk Victorian London to uncover a dangerous secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing parent · secret invention · mechanical companion · quest for answers · child in peril · pursuit by villains · protective friendship

Setting labels: Victorian London · alternate Victorian England · late 19th century · steampunk world · airships · clockwork world · urban adventure · industrial-era fantasy

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Distance: 0.2514

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Expecting Someone Taller

Tom Holt · 1987

An ordinary Englishman inherits a cursed magic ring and is dragged into a comic battle between modern life and Norse gods.

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Premise labels: magic ring · reluctant hero · everyman protagonist · inherited power · world rulership · mythic meddling · accidental quest · power and responsibility · modern world collision · godly interference

Setting labels: modern England · Somerset · country road · contemporary world · mythic overlay · real world fantasy · twentieth century

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Distance: 0.2571

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The Map of the Sky

Félix J. Palma · 2012 · Trilogía Victoriana

H.G. Wells is pulled into a tangled, three-part tale of Martian menace, time travel, and a love-fueled hoax.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · time travel · literary homage · intertextual retelling · secret history · fake sequel · parallel plots

Setting labels: Victorian London · late 19th century · early 20th century · Antarctica · British Museum · New York · alternate history · historical fantasy world

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Distance: 0.2578

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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

John Joseph Adams · 2009

A multi-author anthology sends Sherlock Holmes and Watson into improbable mysteries, crossovers, and alternate realities.

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Premise labels: Holmes pastiche · improbable cases · reimagined canon · mystery crossover · speculative Holmes · Holmes and Watson cases · alternate reality cases · canon gaps

Setting labels: Victorian England · gaslit London · Holmesian world · alternate universe · time travel · historical setting · cross-era intrusions · fantastical reality · Lovecraftian world · science-fictional world

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Distance: 0.2599

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The Glass Scientists: Volume One

S.H. Cotugno, Sabrina Cotugno · 2023 · The Glass Scientists

In Victorian London, a public-facing scientist builds a haven for “rogue” minds while a dangerous secret and new arrivals threaten it.

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Premise labels: mad science · rogue scientists · secret identity · buried secrets · public image · misunderstood monsters · found family · scientific haven · social acceptance · identity conflict

Setting labels: Victorian London · 19th-century London · alternate history · gothic world · steampunk London · scientific society · laboratory setting · historical fantasy setting

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Distance: 0.2604

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The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway · 2014 · River of No Return

A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · forbidden return · cross-time romance · timeline control · missing person in time · battle for time · family secrets · quest object · future at risk

Setting labels: Regency era · 1815 · 1812 · 19th century England · 21st century London · modern London · Vermont · Spain · Napoleonic Wars · historical present · alternate history · time-shifted world

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Distance: 0.2605

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The Iron Wyrm Affair

Lilith Saintcrow · 2012 · Bannon & Clare

A sorceress and a logic-driven outsider team up to stop a murderous conspiracy threatening an alternate Victorian empire.

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Premise labels: protective escort · murder investigation · conspiracy · court intrigue · bodyguard mission · uneasy partnership · save the empire · hunt the killer · logic vs magic

Setting labels: alternate London · Victorian England · early Victorian · industrial revolution · British Empire · alternate Britain · magic-infused world · steampunk world · alternate history · urban setting · rural travel

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Distance: 0.2634

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The Map of Time

Félix J. Palma · 2011 · Trilogía Victoriana

In Victorian London, three intertwined stories use time travel, literary figures, and shifting realities to challenge history.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate timeline · historical revision · literary homage · investigation · save the past · future visit · parallel universe

Setting labels: Victorian England · Victorian London · late 19th century · 1896 London · 1888 London · year 2000 · alternate history · speculative England · industrial age

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Distance: 0.2646

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Fifteen Postcards

Kirsten McKenzie · 2019 · The Old Curiosity Shop

An antiques dealer’s inherited shop and a stack of vintage postcards pull her into interwoven pasts—and a family mystery.

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Premise labels: antique shop · missing parents · artifact-triggered time travel · family mystery · heirloom clues · postcard trail · inheritance crisis · time-bound investigation

Setting labels: modern London · Victorian London · colonial New Zealand · British Raj · 19th century · 21st century · antique shop · auction houses · historical period settings · cross-country setting

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Distance: 0.2650

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Illusionarium

Heather Dixon Wallwork · 2015

A young scientist must use dangerous illusion-tech to save his plague-stricken family and uncover a parallel world’s secrets.

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Premise labels: deadly plague · parallel worlds · shared hallucinations · illusion magic · scientific fantasy · cure quest · family rescue · alternate reality · airship city · medical crisis

Setting labels: alternate history · alternative 19th century · steampunk Britain · aerial city · floating city · airships · parallel world · mirror world · London analogue · Victorian-inspired · cold/ice-covered setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2654

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