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Chuck Palahniuk

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Plot structure labels used: oral history, multiple narrators, fragmented chronology, measured reveal, three-act structure, nonlinear timeline, gradual worldbuilding, late twist, unreliable testimony, recontextualization

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Cover of The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

The Only Harmless Great Thing

Brooke Bolander · 2018

A poetic alternate history braiding radium poisoning and elephant cruelty into a fierce story of memory, rage, and justice.

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Plot structure labels: multiple timelines · interwoven narratives · multiple POVs · fragmented structure · nonlinear · shifting perspectives · alternating strands · oral history · fable-like segments · mythic interludes · future-present-past braid · brief length, dense structure

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Dragon Day

Bob Proehl · 2025

A journalist records survivor interviews as dragons erupt worldwide, chasing the truth, her missing son, and a way to stop them.

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Plot structure labels: oral history · interview archive · epistolary storytelling · found footage · framed narrative · nonlinear timeline · sectioned structure · fragments coalesce · time jumps · multi-perspective

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Distance: 0.1155

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A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

Raymond A. Villareal · 2018

A CDC investigator traces a vampire virus as it spreads worldwide and upends politics, law, religion, and society.

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Plot structure labels: oral history · multiple perspectives · mixed media · nonlinear timeline · chronological drift · time jumps · footnotes · interviews · news clippings · legal documents · fragmented narrative · open ending · episodic structure · slow build · plot threads dropped

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Cover of Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

Moon Witch, Spider King

Marlon James · 2022 · The Dark Star Trilogy

A witch claims her own version of a kingdom-shaping quest and the violent life that made her.

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Plot structure labels: nonlinear · linearized · epic scope · episodic · multiple time spans · parallel narrative · overlapping accounts · reframed events · delayed overlap · unreliable narration

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Tentacle

Rita Indiana · 2018

A queer maid in post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo is drawn into a time-bending quest to save the ocean and humanity.

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Plot structure labels: multiple timelines · interwoven storylines · nonlinear · temporal overlap · time shifts · parallel narratives · back-and-forth chronology · withheld connections · late convergence · abrupt ending · abrupt reveals

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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith · 2014 · Grasshopper Jungle

A horny, confused teen in small-town Iowa records the apocalypse as giant praying mantises overrun the world.

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Plot structure labels: framed history · retrospective narration · interwoven timelines · multiple histories · history lessons · repetition · episodic · slow build · late reveal · fractured storytelling · short chapters · loose structure · unreliable narrator · parallel narrations

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Cover of Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny

Roadmarks

Roger Zelazny · 1979

A man travels a highway through time while assassins hunt him and a young seeker searches for the truth about his origin.

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Plot structure labels: fragmented · experimental · nonlinear · dual timeline · alternating chapters · chapter shuffle · in medias res · puzzle narrative · episodic · vignette structure · reveals late · fragmented chronology

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Distance: 0.1530

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Cover of The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad

The Blueprint

Rae Giana Rashad · 2024

In an alternate America ruled by algorithms, a young Black woman assigned to power confronts love, control, and escape.

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Plot structure labels: three timelines · dual-era parallels · then/now structure · interwoven biography · alternating timelines · time jumps · nonlinear narration · parallel narratives · slow reveal · gradual world reveal

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Distance: 0.1281

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Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson · 2011 · Robopocalypse

An oral-history-style robot apocalypse follows scattered survivors as an AI turns everyday machines against humanity.

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Plot structure labels: oral history · vignette structure · episodic · fragmented narrative · framed narrative · multiple viewpoints · flashbacks · chronological reconstruction · interviews · found footage

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Cover of Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome by John Scalzi

Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.

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Plot structure labels: oral history · epistolary · interview format · documentary style · chronological progression · fragmented narration · background exposition · worldbuilding-led · info-dense · prequel setup

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Distance: 0.1361

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