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Wren James, Lauren James

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Premise labels used: android protagonist, watchmaker, academy mystery, time-travel device, unlikely friendship, class divide, anti-discrimination

Setting labels used: intergalactic academy, alien academy, university campus, distant planet, space setting, offworld society, speculative future

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The School for Whatnots

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2022

A rich boy at an unusual school races to find his missing best friend—and learn who, if anyone, is really real.

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Premise labels: android classmates · secret identity · friendship quest · school mystery · class inequality · privilege

Setting labels: elementary school · middle school transition · school setting · dystopian world · near-future · technological setting · wealth-segregated society · android classroom · private schooling · controlled environment

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1857

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Target Practice

Mike Maihack · 2014 · Cleopatra in Space

A rebellious young Cleopatra is zapped into the future and enrolled in a cat-run academy to train as the galaxy’s savior.

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Premise labels: time travel · chosen one · school setting · galactic savior · fish out of water · future academy · space adventure · ancient Egypt in space

Setting labels: ancient Egypt · far future · outer space · alien school · intergalactic academy · fictional planet · space civilization · ancient-Egypt-inspired future

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Distance: 0.1940

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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

T.J. Klune · 2024

An android gets one last week of freedom before reprogramming and discovers life, friendship, and belonging.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · one week freedom · forced reprogramming · factory labor · search for belonging · personhood question · AI autonomy · final chance · exploration of world · recycling

Setting labels: factory · urban world · human-run society · technological dystopia · android society · same universe · sci-fi world

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Distance: 0.1986

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Villain

Chani Lynn Feener · 2024 · The Demons of Foxglove Grove

A determined transfer student hunts answers about his cousin’s death and gets pulled into a dangerous, possessive poly romance.

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Premise labels: revenge quest · cousin’s death · murder mystery · hacker investigation · secret society · elite university · possession dynamic · forced proximity · multiple love interests · shared partner

Setting labels: university · college · academy · another planet · intergalactic world · futuristic setting · elite society · secret society · high-tech campus · planetary government

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Distance: 0.2055

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Betrayal

Pippa DaCosta · 2017 · The 1000 Revolution

An ex-smuggler and a rogue synthetic stowaway collide in a violent, corporate-controlled space future full of secrets.

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Premise labels: smuggler · synthetic person · killer AI · memory transfer · on-the-run · corporate oppression · hidden past · revenge

Setting labels: space · intergalactic · nine systems · dystopian future · corporate future · military fleet · spaceship setting · lawless frontier

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Distance: 0.2093

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Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

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Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.2096

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The Thief and the Sword

Mike Maihack · 2015 · Cleopatra in Space

A future-school thief, a stolen sword, and a prophecy push Cleopatra into a fast-paced space quest.

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Premise labels: stolen artifact · prophecy quest · future school · chosen one · time travel · galaxy-saving quest

Setting labels: far future · space adventure · academy setting

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Distance: 0.2113

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Parallel

Claudia Lefeve · 2011 · Travelers

An orphan with hidden powers is pulled into a parallel reality where family, identity, and time are all unsettled.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · foster care · alternate reality · hidden identity · powers awakening · wrong reality · family reunion · chosen one · parallel worlds · time travel

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel worlds · contemporary · high school · foster home · group home · private school

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Distance: 0.2147

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The Little Android

Marissa Meyer · 2014 · The Lunar Chronicles

A sentient android risks everything after saving a human, only to face a heartbreaking choice in a sci-fi fairy-tale retelling.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · forbidden love · sentient AI · retold fairy tale

Setting labels: spacefaring future · android society · cyborg world · The Lunar Chronicles world

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Distance: 0.2171

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Doorways in the Sand

Roger Zelazny · 1976

A perpetual student is drawn into a bizarre chase for a missing alien artifact amid aliens, cops, and campus intrigue.

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Premise labels: missing artifact · interstellar conspiracy · cultural exchange · perpetual student · cat and mouse · wrongly suspected protagonist · artifact chase · stolen treasure · alien intrigue

Setting labels: near future · Earth · university campus · Australia · interstellar · post-contact · galactic federation

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Distance: 0.2176

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Kestrel

Adrienne Lothy · 2024 · Starhawk

A retired, disabled bounty hunter hunts a galaxy-famous assassin and uncovers corruption, secrets, and unexpected love.

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Premise labels: bounty hunter · assassin target · cat and mouse · corrupt system · forced alliance · forbidden attraction · intergalactic conspiracy · moral grayness

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic · multiple worlds · alien species · deep space · galactic politics · futuristic society

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Distance: 0.2176

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Descender: Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Jeff Lemire · 2017 · Descender

An outlawed childlike robot awakens into a shattered galaxy and becomes the target of hunters, armies, and secrets.

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Premise labels: outlawed androids · robot persecution · AI rights · post-catastrophe survival · bounty hunters · lost family · search for answers · intergalactic conflict · human-machine conflict · central mystery

Setting labels: space opera · intergalactic setting · distant future · colonized planets · mining colony · trans-galactic federation · fictional universe · civilization after catastrophe

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2176

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