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H.G. Wells

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Characterization labels used: scientists, amateur scientists, civil engineer, politician antagonist, ordinary people, outcasts, giants, children as test subjects, incompetent caretakers, rural folk

Relationships labels used: scientist partnership, parent-child, caregiver neglect, social exclusion, human-versus-giant conflict, class conflict, community backlash, political manipulation, family division

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Cold People

Tom Rob Smith · 2023

After aliens force humanity to flee to Antarctica, survivors fight to build a new society and adapt fast enough to endure.

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Characterization labels: ordinary people · survivors · refugees · scientists · soldier · medical student · fisherman · geneticist · genetically engineered beings · cold-adapted humans · reluctant protagonists

Relationships labels: romance · family · parent-child · community formation · survivor cooperation · power struggle · species conflict · dependence

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Distance: 0.1958

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Perfect People

Peter James · 2011

A grieving couple turns to designer-baby science to avoid another genetic tragedy, only to face terrifying consequences.

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Characterization labels: naive parents · grieving couple · maverick scientist · scientific parent · creepy children · religious fanatic · ambitious scientist · unlikeable protagonists · cold antagonist · highly intelligent children

Relationships labels: parent-child · marriage · family crisis · betrayal · dependency · power imbalance · protective parenting · cult opposition · science vs religion

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Distance: 0.1991

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The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov · 2000

A scientist uncovers a free-energy breakthrough from a parallel universe and races to stop the hidden cost.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · outcast scientist · discredited scientist · rebellious alien · lunar-born human · intuitionist · academic rivals · ego-driven scientist

Relationships labels: scientific rivalry · academic politics · human-alien contact · community conflict · family structure · triadic bonds · power struggle · romantic/sexual relationships

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Distance: 0.2036

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Darwin's Children

Greg Bear · 2003 · Darwin's Radio

Genetically changed children face quarantine, fear, and state control as their species nears adolescence.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonists · biologist · archaeologist · teen protagonist · parental protection · rebellious youth · exiled researchers · government officials · bounty hunters · persecuted underclass · posthuman children · likable characters

Relationships labels: parent child · family separation · estranged spouses · protective parents · youth peer bonds · human posthuman conflict · community resistance · state family conflict · authority surveillance · coexistence struggle

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Distance: 0.2064

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Countdown

Mira Grant · 2011 · Newsflesh

A prequel novella traces the scientific missteps and media chaos that unleash the world of the Newsflesh zombie apocalypse.

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Characterization labels: scientists · doctors · journalists · reporters · college students · activists · victims · patients · parents · ordinary people · dogs · idealists · well intentioned · tragic · morally flawed

Relationships labels: family · adoption · husband relationship · parent child · colleague relationships · community · professional relationships · public trust · institutional betrayal · scientist spouse

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Distance: 0.2071

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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

Harold Bloom · 2002

A writer’s research on an atomic scientist leads him into an invented religion, a doomed island, and a world-ending secret.

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Characterization labels: investigative narrator · scientist · mad scientist · dictator · idiosyncratic characters · flawed characters · human folly · disillusioned worldview

Relationships labels: family ties · scientist children · power and obedience · community complicity · cult-like affiliation

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Distance: 0.2078

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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

Ryan North · 2010 · Machine of Death

An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.

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Characterization labels: ordinary people · teenagers · doctors · soldiers · insurance workers · inventors · government actors · students · obsessive characters · fatalistic characters · free-will skeptics · morally complex characters

Relationships labels: family relationships · parent-child relationships · romance · dating · friend groups · social cliques · community reactions · power relations · institutional control · rivalry · cohort sorting

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Distance: 0.2116

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The Martian Way and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 1982 · The Complete Stories

Four classic Asimov SF stories explore Mars, alien contact, and space-age problems through ideas, twists, and hard choices.

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Characterization labels: scientists · astronauts · colonists · young boys · aliens · specialist characters · savant character · arrogant scientists · politicians · resourceful protagonists

Relationships labels: Earth-Mars tension · human-alien contact · colony dependence · scientists vs politicians · siblings · friendship · team collaboration · interdisciplinary cooperation · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.2117

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H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space

Gou Tanabe · 2025 · Gou Tanabe's Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's Masterpieces

A surveyor hears how a rural farm was slowly blighted by a meteorite carrying an indescribable alien color.

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Characterization labels: farm family · stoic farmer · surveyor · aged survivor · scientists · local witnesses · doomed family · rural community

Relationships labels: family bonds · community isolation · scientist-observer · neighbor testimony · parent-child · marital family unit · human versus nature

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Distance: 0.2148

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Forty Signs of Rain

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2005 · Science in the Capital

Near-future Washington, D.C. faces climate disruption as scientists, staffers, and refugees try to act before disaster escalates.

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Characterization labels: scientists · policy staffer · senator aide · lobbyist · bureaucrat · researcher · biotech scientist · stay-at-home dad · working mother · elevator encounter · rational skeptic · homeless scientist · political operative · Buddhist monks · refugees · ordinary people

Relationships labels: marriage · parent-child · working parent · professional collaboration · political patronage · scientist-politician tension · romantic tension · community aid · cross-cultural contact · dependency · bureaucratic rivalry

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Distance: 0.2150

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The Forge of God

Greg Bear · 1987 · Forge of God

When Earth faces mysterious alien omens and contradictory visitors, scientists and leaders race toward an apparently unavoidable apocalypse.

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Characterization labels: scientists · geologists · political leaders · president · family focus · ordinary people · competent adults

Relationships labels: friendship · family bonds · scientist friendship · government hierarchy · human solidarity

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Distance: 0.2156

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The God Project

John Saul · 1983

In an 1980s small town, grieving parents uncover a secret genetic project tied to missing and endangered children.

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Characterization labels: mothers · distrustful parent · journalist · sheriff · scientist · geneticist · researcher · skeptical investigator · families under stress · children as uncanny figures · flawed humans

Relationships labels: mother-child · parental grief · family investigation · community distrust · scientist-subject · authority mistrust · friendship under pressure · family alliances

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Distance: 0.2171

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