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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Infinite Ground.
Characterization labels used: semi-retired inspector, unnamed inspector, widowed investigator, missing office worker, clinical scientist, unnamed protagonist, obsessive thinker, paranoid investigator, unstable protagonist, nameless characters
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A lonely detective’s routine cat-return case turns into a mournful mystery of lost love, missing people, and strange reality shifts.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: private detective · divorced protagonist · lonely protagonist · restrained characters · affectless characters · anthropomorphic characters · deadpan protagonist · obsessive investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1776
A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1817
A Scotland Yard detective investigates bodies that move or vanish, only to confront a case of reason, chance, and truth.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young detective · police investigator · eccentric statistician · skeptical investigator · frustrated investigator · analytical protagonist · inconsistent characters · flat characters · unsympathetic characters · eccentric suspects
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1835
A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · older protagonist · curious investigator · medical expert · philosophical thinker · obsessive seeker · scientist-physician · mysterious patient · driven researcher · intellectual protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1865
A nameless man probes a citywide outbreak of insomnia, murders, and a secret diary library that may never be fully hidden.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · amateur sleuth · writer figure · journalist figure · office worker · loner · record-keeper · reclusive · obsessive researcher · passive protagonist · witnesses · mysterious youths · shadowy antagonists · insomniac citizens · sanity fraying
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1896
A CEO facing terminal illness and betrayal suspects AI-driven deception is unraveling his life and company.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: CEO protagonist · private investigator · sympathetic protagonist · flawed characters · relatable characters · workaholic · terminally ill protagonist · betrayal-worn investigator · supporting cast of suspects · morally pressured
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1904
A physicist vanishes after baffling seizures, pulling his wife and a detective into a race through science, money, and suspicion.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: physicist · professor · detective · widow · wife · billionaire · investor · assistant · postdoc · college student · retired cop · missing person · scientist protagonist · grieving detective · hearing impaired protagonist · sympathetic characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1910
Thirteen science-fiction mysteries blend clues, science, and twist endings, with Asimov’s own commentary throughout.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: Eccentric detective · Official investigator · Pragmatic investigator · Analytical genius · Scientific mind · Baffled foil · Earthy characters · Not character-driven · Morally corrective endings · Academic squabbling · Scientist characters · Investigative duo
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1931
A corporate simulation designer starts doubting reality itself after a death and a string of impossible disappearances.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: investigator protagonist · corporate employee · scientist inventor · corporate executive · female love interest · paranoid protagonist · logical protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1960
Two classic Wells novellas: one sends a scientist into a distant human future; the other unleashes a dangerous invisibility experiment.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed scientist · mad scientist · ambitious scientist · curious investigator · unlikable protagonist · irreverent protagonist · unsympathetic antagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1966
A time-shifting mystery links malaria research, colonial India, and a secretive theory of how knowledge is found.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: obsessive researcher · computer programmer · missing person · eccentric scholar · scientist · archivist · journalist · mystic figure · cult figure · ambiguous protagonist · limited cast · active reader inference
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1980
An amnesiac man is retrained to live in a strange village, until a new relationship unsettles everything he’s learned.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · examiner · claimant · caregiver · guide · patient · volatile woman · charismatic woman · moldable protagonist · alienated characters · bureaucratic role
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1980
