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Premise labels used: alien identity, dual self, investigative mystery, mind reading, psychic perception, survival after explosion, unstable reality, body-sharing

Setting labels used: federal workplace, hospital setting, crime scene investigation, psychological reality, psychedelic reality

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Absolute Martian Manhunter, Vol. 1: Martian Vision

Deniz Camp · 2025 · Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025)

An FBI agent’s mind is invaded by an alien presence, forcing him to investigate crimes while reality unravels around him.

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Premise labels: brain infection · alien consciousness · mind-sharing · FBI agent · mind-reading · psychic powers · crimes investigation · buddy cop · identity reimagining · social breakdown

Setting labels: Middleton · alternate universe · dark city · federal law enforcement · psychedelic reality · urban breakdown · cosmic dimension

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K-Pax

Gene Brewer · 1995 · K-Pax

A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.

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Premise labels: alien claim · psychiatric patient · identity mystery · delusion or reality · utopian world · therapeutic inquiry · human-alien encounter · mysterious abilities

Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · New York City · Manhattan · contemporary setting · outer space · alien world · utopian planet · single-site setting

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Distance: 0.2120

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Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 1-2

Hideo Yamamoto · 2023 · Homunculus Omnibus

A homeless man joins a skull-drilling experiment and starts seeing people’s hidden inner selves as grotesque forms.

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Premise labels: Trepanation experiment · Sixth sense · Subconscious vision · Hidden inner self · Psychological trauma · Homunculi

Setting labels: Urban contemporary · Homelessness · Car dwelling · Medical experiment · Psychological reality · Supernatural reality

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Distance: 0.2229

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Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Premise labels: identity theft · consciousness transfer · body swap · immortality quest · forgery · metaphysical conspiracy · mad science · authenticity crisis

Setting labels: modern London · psychiatric hospital · mental asylum · secure facility · historical academic milieu · contemporary setting · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2257

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The Replaced

Kimberly Derting · 2015 · The Taking

On the run from the NSA, a teen with strange abilities risks everything to rescue the boy she loves.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · returned survivors · on the run · search mission · government experiment · secret facility · rescued love interest · identity uncertainty · humanity question · hidden powers

Setting labels: contemporary Earth · government facilities · returned camp · road trip · secret lab · teen camp · shadow government · alien abduction setting

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Interview with the Robot

Lee Bacon · 2020

A 12-year-old shoplifter reveals in interrogation that she’s a robot on the run, forcing a truth about family and identity.

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Premise labels: robot identity · interrogation frame · fugitive AI · shoplifting arrest · child services interview · hidden origin · self-discovery · on the run · artificial intelligence · human nature

Setting labels: laboratory · police station · interview room · New York City · child welfare services · science fictional reality

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Distance: 0.2316

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The Coma

Alex Garland · 2004

After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.

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Premise labels: coma · amnesia · altered consciousness · dream state · identity loss · wake-up quest · psychological mystery · reality distortion · subconscious journey · survival

Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2319

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Intercepts: A Horror Novel

T.J. Payne · 2026

A covert experimenter’s work turns personal when a hidden government weapon starts haunting his grieving daughter.

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Premise labels: human experimentation · secret facility · government conspiracy · remote viewing · psychic weaponization · sensory deprivation · revenge · father-daughter protection · mind control · surveillance state · hidden abilities

Setting labels: secret underground facility · laboratory · padded cells · sensory deprivation chamber · covert government site · contemporary setting · paranoia-driven workplace · home setting · surveillance culture · high-security institution

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False Memory

Dean Koontz · 2001

A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.

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Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat

Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world

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Distance: 0.2380

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Olasılıksız

Adam Fawer · 2006

A gambler with uncanny probability skills is pulled into a deadly chase involving secret experiments and future-sight.

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Premise labels: probability · chance · prediction · future sight · deja vu · gambler · medical experiment · conspiracy · survival · secret powers

Setting labels: contemporary · scientific research · secret agencies · medical setting · casino · urban chase · real-world reality

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Distance: 0.2395

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The Egg and Other Stories

Andy Weir · 2017

Nine ultra-short speculative tales use wit and surprise endings to flip ordinary situations into mind-bending reveals.

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Premise labels: surprise endings · twist fiction · idea-driven stories · speculative scenarios · thought experiment · high-concept shorts · alternate reality · reincarnation · scientific what-if

Setting labels: contemporary · science fictional · speculative · alternate reality · hospital · home invasion · laboratory · time travel · afterlife · everyday life

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Distance: 0.2397

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Onyx

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2012 · Lux

A bonded teen alien romance spirals into secrets, jealousy, and government danger as hidden powers emerge.

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Premise labels: alien connection · secret identity · government threat · hidden powers · new boy · forbidden attraction · trust issues · alien conflict · mystery unraveling

Setting labels: high school · small town · alien-in-human-world · contemporary setting · government intrusion · hidden paranormal world

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