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These books are ranked using the relationships labels extracted for De engelenmaker.
Relationships labels used: father son, parent child, fatherhood, family estrangement, community suspicion, caretaker relationship, doctor patient, scientist God, power imbalance
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their relationships embeddings are close.
A self-loathing time-traveler from a utopian 2016 lands in our world and must choose between two lives.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son conflict · romance · love interest · soul mate · family estrangement · alternative family · power imbalance · parental loss · found family · timeline split
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1170
A depressed teen is pushed into piloting a giant bio-mech as humanity faces alien attack and apocalyptic collapse.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son conflict · abandonment · parental neglect · found family · mentor-ward · strained bonding · power imbalance · emotional dependency · adult-child manipulation
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1196
A short Tobias Eaton prequel follows his aptitude test, faction choice, and first steps toward becoming Four.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son conflict · abusive parent · mentor relationship · friendship · family tension · community belonging · power imbalance
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1263
A young man chases the truth behind a deadly virus and discovers a reality far stranger than he imagined.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son · parent-child · romantic relationship · girlfriend · family duty · caretaking · inheritance · intergenerational
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1302
A farm worker survives a deadly fungal outbreak and becomes the center of science, faith, and family crisis in rural Chile.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-daughter · father-son · sibling responsibility · parental absence · abandonment · religious devotion · cult dynamic · science-faith tension · community dependence · worker solidarity
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1304
A grieving couple turns to designer-baby science to avoid another genetic tragedy, only to face terrifying consequences.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: parent-child · marriage · family crisis · betrayal · dependency · power imbalance · protective parenting · cult opposition · science vs religion
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1310
A laid-off expat in Thailand is pulled into a mystery when monuments from the future appear, warning of a coming conqueror.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father daughter · divorce · family strain · marital breakdown · parent child · scientist protagonist · friendship · romance · cult allegiance · accommodationist faction · community under stress
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1320
In a poisoned post-collapse world, a harsh father and his two sons struggle to survive and decode a hidden past.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · brother relationship · family separation · parental withholding · intergenerational divide · found family · dependency · power imbalance · bond through loss
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1338
A Black father in a near-future racist America will do anything to make his biracial son safe, even make him white.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father and son · marriage · interracial marriage · family conflict · parent-child protection · complicated wife-husband dynamic · power imbalance · betrayal
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1348
A young man’s life unravels across timelines as a tech company, a TV obsession, and a buried trauma collide.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: parent-child · estranged family · sibling relationship · romance · marriage · father-son · mother-son · power imbalance · workplace hierarchy · parasocial attachment
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1371
A faux-historical biography and illustrated atlas follow a doctor whose obsession with mythic anatomy leads him into madness.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · siblings · marriage · wife as witness · collegial rejection · professional ostracism · family tragedy · science versus community
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1384
A Dalit tech founder’s rise collides with climate collapse, corporate rule, and his daughter’s reckoning with his legacy.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father daughter · marriage · family ties · estrangement · betrayal · love and longing · power imbalance · community to transaction · parent child memory transfer
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1387
A time-machine repairman in a science-fictional universe searches for his vanished father through a dizzying, self-referential time loop.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son · parent-child · missing parent · mother-son · human-AI · human-computer · companionship · family estrangement · dependence
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1391
A reluctant, unreliable narrator sails an alien ocean to find a vanished leader and unravel his own fate.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · marriage · family separation · quest patronage · leader-follower · mentor-student · wife patience · romance · power imbalance · betrayal · dependency
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1393
A son visits a secret cryonics compound with his wealthy father, forcing a reckoning with death, identity, and family.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father and son · stepmother and stepson · marital bond · family estrangement · parental abandonment · reconciliation attempt · dependency · power imbalance · caregiving
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1404
An amnesiac heir in a dazzling post-human solar-system utopia probes a buried past that may shatter his world.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · marriage · family inheritance · social ostracism · friendship · betrayal · authority conflict · dependence on AI · community conformity · power hierarchy
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1405
An angry foster teen is hurled through history, forced to inhabit other lives and confront violence, identity, and empathy.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: foster care · absent father · dead mother · adoptive family · peer manipulation · father-son estrangement · family rejection · unconventional family · friendship · power imbalance
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1406
A Vietnam veteran-turned-professor recounts his life from prison, exposing war, class, and institutional absurdity.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son · family dysfunction · marriage · adultery · authority conflict · class conflict · institutional power · peer camaraderie
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1422
A rejuvenated billionaire inventor returns to his family as a young man, triggering sex, jealousy, and social upheaval.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · marriage breakdown · family dysfunction · love triangle · infidelity · age-gap relationship · friend betrayal · romantic rivalry · power imbalance
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1438
A young Boba Fett must survive a galaxy-spanning upheaval and learn his father’s harsh lessons after tragedy strikes.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son relationship · mentor relationship · loneliness · friendship · betrayal · loss of parent · authority conflict
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1446
After a child returns from clinical death changed, his father pursues a chilling link between dreams, science, and danger.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father-son bond · marital conflict · parent-child tension · family crisis · romantic dependence · estrangement
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1449
A marine biologist returns to Loch Ness to confront family secrets, a murder trial, and the monster in the water.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father and son · estranged family · romance · friendship · childhood friends · rivalry · parent-child conflict · community ties · manipulative family
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1455
A teen trapped in a luxurious underground bunker starts uncovering lies that make him question his father, his family, and survival itself.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: father son · family betrayal · family conflict · sibling rivalry · twin bond · parent child · fractured family · trust issues · family loyalty · dependency
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1460
After a time-travel mishap leaves him in a changed present, Craig must face the consequences and find closure.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: family relationships · friendship · romantic relationships · parent-child · father-son · community ties · caregiver support · social worker · power imbalance
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1461
