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These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for Parasite Eve. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: researcher protagonist, scientist protagonist, grieving husband, teen transplant patient, student researcher, obsessive experimenter, medical professional, morally compromised

Relationships labels used: husband-wife, parent-child, doctor-patient, researcher-student, organ donor-recipient, family grief, obsession, manipulation, dependency, betrayal

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Cover of Infinite by Brian Freeman

Infinite

Brian Freeman · 2021

A grieving man is pulled into parallel lives and a deadly confrontation with his own double.

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Characterization labels: flawed protagonist · everyman · grieving widower · traumatized man · unlikable lead (mixed) · redeemable character · doppelgänger antagonist · psychopath · serial killer · psychiatrist · experimental patient · relatable protagonist

Relationships labels: marriage · husband-wife · widower · double self · self-versus-self · romantic loss · friendship · doctor-patient · therapy relationship · rival selves · family trauma

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1719

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Cover of Interference by Brad Parks

Interference

Brad Parks · 2020

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

Relationships labels: marriage · husband wife · family · sister bond · parent child · professional rivalry · employer employee · mentor mentee · investigator suspect · power imbalance

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1723

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Cover of Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer

Factoring Humanity

Robert J. Sawyer · 1998

A psychologist decoding alien signals and her AI-researching estranged husband confront a breakthrough that could remake humanity.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonists · psychologist protagonist · computer scientist · estranged couple · grieving parents · AI character · skeptical protagonist · rational characters

Relationships labels: estranged marriage · parent-child conflict · family fracture · parental accusation · professional partnership · divorce · grief

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1729

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Cover of Loop by Kōji Suzuki

Loop

Kōji Suzuki · 2006 · リング [Ring]

A young man chases the truth behind a deadly virus and discovers a reality far stranger than he imagined.

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Characterization labels: young protagonist · medical student · genius child · scientist · pathologist · self-sacrificing hero · female objectification · emotionally reserved

Relationships labels: father-son · parent-child · romantic relationship · girlfriend · family duty · caretaking · inheritance · intergenerational

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1779

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Cover of Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Tom Sweterlitsch · 2014

A grief-stricken investigator uses a VR archive of destroyed Pittsburgh to solve a murder that may erase the past itself.

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Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · drug-addicted protagonist · damaged antihero · loner · investigator · archivist · marginalized outsider · obsessive protagonist · depressed protagonist · female victims

Relationships labels: marriage loss · bereavement · wife obsession · unborn child loss · family loss · power imbalance · cat and mouse · romantic objectification · dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1800

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Cover of Awakened by Laura Elliott

Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · morally grey · guilty · introspective · flawed · resilient · panicked · analytical · clinical · chronically ill caregiver · love interest tension · enigmatic outsider · survivor group · biomedical researcher

Relationships labels: caregiver child · mother daughter · romantic tension · forbidden attraction · foil relationship · scientific colleagues · survivor group · power imbalance · interrogation dynamic · betrayal by science

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1804

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Cover of The Asylum by Matt Dymerski

The Asylum

Matt Dymerski · 2013

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

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · mentor-student · institutional power · abusive relationships · male DV victim · worker-patient

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1815

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Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

Crypt of the Moon Spider

Nathan Ballingrud · 2024 · Lunar Gothic Trilogy

A woman is sent to a moon asylum for melancholy, where spider-silk medicine and buried secrets warp mind and body.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: melancholy protagonist · passive heroine · female lead · mad scientist · sadistic doctor · abusive orderly · condescending husband · patient prisoner · scientific authority figure · brain surgeon · cultic scholars · victimized woman

Relationships labels: husband-wife · marital abandonment · institutional power imbalance · doctor-patient · parent-child influence · male authority over women · caregiver abuse

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1829

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Cover of The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon

The Screwfly Solution

Raccoona Sheldon, James Tiptree Jr. · 1977

A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · scientist husband · wife protagonist · family focus · ordinary people · male aggression · female vulnerability · limited character development

Relationships labels: husband-wife · parent-child · family separation · gender conflict · power imbalance · male-female conflict · community breakdown · cult allegiance · dependency · protective concern

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1831

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Cover of Under Story by Chloe Benjamin

Under Story

Chloe Benjamin · 2026

A grieving scientist in Antarctica discovers a strange light that may open a door to second chances, love, and time itself.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: biologist · mycologist · physicist · scientist protagonist · grieving parent · divorced protagonist · messy protagonist · emotionally fractured · brilliant scientist · ambitious · flawed characters · found family

Relationships labels: ex-husband · divorced couple · marriage · parent-child · grieving parents · love story · second chance romance · family loss · friendships · found family · couple bond

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1837

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Cover of Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin

Ball Lightning

Liu Cixin · 2018

A scientist haunted by childhood tragedy pursues the mystery of ball lightning, pulling him into military research and radical physics.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: obsessive protagonist · physicist · soldier-scientist · brilliant scientist · eccentric scientist · mentally unstable characters · flat characters · cipher protagonist · morally driven scientist · female military officer

Relationships labels: parent-child loss · scientist-military · scientist collaboration · professional rivalry · shared obsession · power imbalance · romance · friendship · institutional pressure

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1837

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Cover of Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: academic protagonist · scholar protagonist · unlikable protagonist · inept hero · savant character · psychiatric patient · scientist character · brutish savant · bookish intellectual · self-pitying narrator · complex protagonist

Relationships labels: marriage breakdown · former lover · family estrangement · doctor-patient relationship · friendship · romantic tension · parent-child estrangement

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1844

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