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Similar in plot structure

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

Plot structure labels used: journal format, serialized origin, fix-up novel, survival odyssey, quest narrative, reveal-driven, abrupt turn, rushed ending, climactic reveal, broadly episodic

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

Cover of Quicksand House by Carlton Mellick III

Quicksand House

Carlton Mellick III · 2013

Two sheltered children leave their nursery to search a vast, deadly house for parents they’ve never met.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1572

Cover of The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman by Nick   Jones

The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman

Nick Jones · The Downstream Diaries

A reclusive, insomnia-plagued man discovers time travel after hypnotherapy and races to change a missing-sister past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1620

Cover of The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Expert System's Brother

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2018 · Expert System

After a ritual accident cuts him off from his village, a young outcast wanders a hostile world and uncovers its secrets.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1646

Cover of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Annihilation

Jeff Vandermeer · 2014 · Southern Reach

A biologist joins a doomed all-women expedition into a quarantined, shifting zone where nature and truth misbehave.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1666

Cover of Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel by Mike Mignola

Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden · 2012 · Joe Golem: Occult Detective

In a flooded alternate New York, a teen girl and a golem detective race to uncover a supernatural kidnapping.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1668

Cover of The Alien's Bond by Kira Quinn

The Alien's Bond

Kira Quinn · 2023 · Mark of the Infala

Abducted as alien livestock, Darla survives a crash with a secretive alien prisoner and a bond that may defy fate.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1692

Cover of Rise of the Governor by Jay Bonansinga

Rise of the Governor

Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman · 2011 · The Walking Dead: Novels

A survivor’s struggle through a zombie apocalypse becomes the dark origin of The Walking Dead’s most notorious villain.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1694

Cover of Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest

Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope

Darcy Van Poelgeest · 2019 · Little Bird

In a brutal future Canada, a young resistance fighter battles a religious empire while uncovering her identity and past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1713

Cover of The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Robert Kirkman · 2013 · The Walking Dead

A coma-awakened cop must navigate a zombie-ravaged world and find his family as society collapses.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1719

Cover of Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

Hiromu Arakawa · 2013 · 鋼の錬金術師 完全版 [Hagane no Renkinjutsushi Kanzenban]

Two brothers cursed by forbidden alchemy hunt the Philosopher’s Stone to restore their bodies.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1722

Cover of Off on a Comet by Jules Verne

Off on a Comet

Jules Verne · 2018 · Hector Servadac

A comet clips Earth, carrying a small group of survivors on a two-year journey through the solar system.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1722

Cover of The Moon Pool by A. Merritt

The Moon Pool

A. Merritt · 2004 · Dr. Goodwin

A botanist joins an expedition into South Pacific ruins and a hidden underworld where a light-born terror rules.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1736

Cover of This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise

This Fragile Earth

Susannah Wise · 2021

In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1743

Cover of The Book of Time by Guillaume Prévost

The Book of Time

Guillaume Prévost · 2007 · Book of Time

A grieving boy uses a mysterious stone to leap through history while searching for his missing father.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1747

Cover of Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler · 2020 · Earthseed (Graphic Novel adaptations)

In a collapsing near-future America, a teenage girl journals her way toward survival, faith, and a new community.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1767

Cover of Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke

Against the Fall of Night

Arthur C. Clarke · 2003

A curious young man in Earth’s last city uncovers buried truths that could shatter a stagnant immortal civilization.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1770

Cover of The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle · 2005 · Professor Challenger

An intrepid journalist joins a volatile scientific expedition into the Amazon to test claims of a dinosaur-haunted lost world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1774

Cover of A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle · 2012

A girl, her brother, and a friend cross space and time to find her missing father and face a cosmic darkness.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1784