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Similar in plot structure

These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Portent.

Plot structure labels used: episodic vignettes, intercut perspectives, escalating disasters, travelogue structure, withheld explanation, late reveal, framing mystery

Focused on “time jumps” where exact label matches exist.

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

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Cover of The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman

The Museum of Human History

Rebekah Bergman · 2023

A comatose girl who never ages draws scientists, family, and seekers into an interwoven mystery about time, memory, and youth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1399

Cover of Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Black Helicopters

Caitlín R. Kiernan · 2018 · Tinfoil Dossier

A time-jumping occult spy story follows rival agents, secret experiments, and twin sisters through a cosmic crisis.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1410

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1450

Cover of State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

State of Paradise

Laura van den Berg · 2024

A ghostwriter returns to her Florida childhood home after the pandemic and is pulled into family, tech, and reality-bending mysteries.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1176

Cover of Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss

Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1235

Cover of Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown

Martians, Go Home

Fredric Brown · 1976

A stranded science-fiction writer faces a worldwide Martian nuisance that exposes secrets, wrecks routines, and upends reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1248

Cover of The Difference Engine by William Gibson

The Difference Engine

William Gibson, Bruce Sterling · 1991

In an alternate 1855 England powered by steam computers, several figures race over a dangerous punched-card program.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1269