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Premise labels used: ticking clock, stranded together, mercenary takeover, explosion threat, opposites attract, forced partnership, escape mission, survival race, enemies to lovers, stowaway protagonist

Setting labels used: Mars, colonized Mars, UN base, space base, future setting, near-future, space colony, sci-fi world

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Mickey7

Edward Ashton · 2022 · Mickey7

A clone laborer on a dangerous colony mission discovers he’s not the only version of himself still alive.

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Premise labels: clone protagonist · expendable worker · dangerous mission · identity crisis · duplicate selves · colonization mission · survival

Setting labels: future · space colony · ice planet · hostile planet · near-uninhabitable world · interstellar expedition · colony ship · newly colonized planet · futuristic space travel · off-world

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Distance: 0.1870

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System Collapse

Martha Wells · 2023 · The Murderbot Diaries

A damaged Security Unit races to save colonists from corporate exploitation while confronting its own trauma.

Why this is here

Premise labels: reluctant hero · rescue mission · trauma recovery · AI protagonist · colonist protection · corporate takeover · alien contamination

Setting labels: spacefaring future · newly colonized planet · alien-contaminated colony · corporate-run society · science-fiction future · planetary setting

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Distance: 0.1903

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The Ember War

Richard Fox · 2015 · The Ember War Saga

An alien probe recruits a young inventor to help humanity survive an incoming invasion and build a fighting fleet.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · human survival · last stand · warning mission · chosen strategist · faster-than-impossible odds · armada threat · prepare for war · drone enemy · first contact

Setting labels: near future · space warfare · solar system · post-apocalyptic earth · interstellar conflict · future history · colonized future · military sci-fi setting

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Distance: 0.1924

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War Dogs

Greg Bear · 2014 · War Dogs

A Mars-deployed space marine survives a failed drop into an alien proxy war and uncovers a deeper mystery.

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Premise labels: alien alliance · proxy war · Mars campaign · stranded soldiers · survival mission · first contact aftermath · hidden agenda · mystery war · interstellar conflict

Setting labels: Mars · Earth · space frontier · interplanetary · future · colonized Mars · off-world combat · underground base · Martian settlement · solar system

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Distance: 0.1925

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In Our Stars

Jack Campbell · 2024 · The Doomed Earth

A half-alien fleet officer is hurled 40 years into Earth’s past and must stop the catastrophe she already witnessed.

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Premise labels: save Earth · time travel mission · first contact · alternate timeline · future catastrophe · prevent apocalypse · out of time · hunted survivor · fugitives on the run · history change

Setting labels: future Earth · past Earth · space station · orbital setting · inner solar system · Moon · Mars · space fleet · cislunar space · space opera world

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Distance: 0.1926

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Sunreach

Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson · 2021 · Skyward

A side-character novella follows FM as her team races to unlock alien slug powers and save humanity between battles.

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Premise labels: offworld survival · planet escape · time pressure · team effort · alien technology · hidden species · rescue mission · post-invasion resistance · bridge installment

Setting labels: space opera · planetary setting · isolated colony · war zone · alien civilization · dystopian future · military base · offworld outpost

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Distance: 0.1952

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The Lost Starship

Vaughn Heppner · 2014 · Lost Starship

A military captain leads a ragtag team to recover a legendary alien warship before superhuman invaders crush humanity.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · last-ditch mission · ancient starship · ragtag crew · save humanity · superhuman enemy · find the ship · race against extinction · enemy infiltration

Setting labels: spacefaring future · interstellar · known space · Beyond · prison planet · alien ruins · human empire · military space setting · planetary colonies

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Distance: 0.1984

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Nyxia Uprising

Scott Reintgen · 2019 · The Nyxia Triad

With their planet doomed and enemies closing in, Emmett’s crew must survive, ally, and fight for escape.

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Premise labels: survival quest · escape mission · last chance · team alliance · corporate control · planetary disaster · space competition · evacuation race · alien alliance

Setting labels: space setting · alien planet · planetary colonization · doomed world · collapsing moons · off-world survival · space station · hostile terrain · futuristic setting

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Distance: 0.1996

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy · 2025 · Scarabaeus

A gifted terraformer is kidnapped into a dangerous mission and bound to a slave bodyguard as a ruthless empire closes in.

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Premise labels: terraforming · kidnapping · forced alliance · bodyguard bond · corporate control · resource exploitation · colonial resistance · planetary salvage · survival mission · slow-burn attraction

Setting labels: far future · spacefaring · multiple planets · terraforming world · alien planet · jungle planet · corporate empire · oppressive regime · spaceship setting · colonized worlds

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Distance: 0.2018

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Caretaker

Josi Russell · 2015 · Caretaker Chronicles

A stranded caretaker on a sleeper ship uncovers a hidden destination and must save 4,000 passengers from alien danger.

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Premise labels: sleeper ship · caretaker duty · colonization mission · isolated protagonist · alien threat · hidden destination · stasis voyage · shipboard mystery

Setting labels: deep space · starship · stasis ship · colony voyage · future space travel · alien planet · interstellar setting · human colony

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Distance: 0.2024

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The Last Dragon on Mars

Scott Reintgen · 2024 · The Dragonships

A Mars-born orphan uncovers a secret dragon and is pulled into a desperate mission to save a dying planet.

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Premise labels: dragon rider · chosen one · orphan hero · dying planet · space dragons · salvage scavenger · secret bunker · save the planet · dragon bond · mission crew

Setting labels: Mars · solar system · future · spacefaring society · colonized Mars · restricted zone · military base · bunker · wasteland · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.2029

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Edge of Eon

Anna Hackett · 2023 · Eon Warriors

Framed and blackmailed, a Terran officer kidnaps an alien war commander—then they crash onto a lethal training planet.

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Premise labels: framed heroine · kidnapping mission · suicide mission · forced alliance · survival ordeal · alien invasion · save Earth · enemy attraction · stranded together · rescue bargaining

Setting labels: space warfare · future Earth · alien empire · synthetic planet · training planet · ever-changing biome · hunter planet · hostile planet · sci-fi universe · interstellar setting

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Distance: 0.2032

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