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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Years of Rice and Salt.
Characterization labels used: reincarnated souls, scholars, warriors, slaves, kings, explorers, philosophers, scientists, women leaders, historical analogues
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
Two souls are bound across reincarnations, forcing them through war, myth, history, and far-future worlds.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: reincarnated characters · souls · shape-shifting identities · cryptic characters · flux · haunted characters · possession · transhuman figures · children · gods · demons · witches · oppressed characters · powerful figures
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2061
A scholar, future machines, and far-future humans collide in a Mars-set Trojan War reenactment driven by gods.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scholar protagonist · resurrected scholar · robot protagonists · posthuman beings · mythic figures · human survivors · curious explorers · intellectual characters · sentient machines · immortal elites
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2150
A hidden human colony risks everything when one mission pulls its leader into a galaxy-spanning fight against extinction.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: buried past · leader · mysterious survivor · sardonic ally · uplifted animal character · transhuman characters · posthuman characters · returning characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2195
A priest investigates rumored miracles at a living cathedral on an asteroid, and the visit upends his beliefs.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: priest · investigator · pilgrims · scientists · fanaticism · skeptical protagonist · questing mind · life sacrifice
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2201
Two cloned lovers from a far-future human line race across the galaxy to solve a millennia-old attack on their family.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: clones · shatterlings · near-immortal · post-human · lovers · explorers · rescued artificial being · machine intelligence · human variants · ancient characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2219
A varied collection of short speculative stories, from satirical thought experiments to dark, moving tales of power, language, and perspective.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: psychologist · ethnographer · anthropologist · scientist · explorer · women protagonists · older women · political prisoner · colonists · artists · academy researchers · ordinary people · nonhuman narrators
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2249
An anthology of 32 African and African-diasporic speculative stories spanning fantasy, sci-fi, horror, myth, and futurism.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: androids · cyborgs · witches · goddesses · robots · ghosts · inventors · ancestors · deities · villains · queens · kings
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2252
A lyrical cycle of linked stories follows Earth’s attempts to settle Mars and the human flaws that follow.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: Martians · human colonists · explorers · settlers · invaders · outsiders · sympathetic outsider · cynical human · dreamer · survivor · telepathic beings
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2271
A final trilogy installment blends history, quantum ideas, and parallel selves as one man races to uncover his truth.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: male protagonist · dual protagonist · historical figures · scholar figures · clerics · mystics · scientific mind · searching protagonist · multiple selves
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2290
Alien archaeologists excavate Olduvai Gorge and uncover seven artifacts that reveal humanity’s rise, ruin, and legacy.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: alien archaeologists · anthropologists · research team · feeler character · outsider observers · humanity as species
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2342
A far-future physics accident creates an expanding universe-void, forcing posthumans to choose whether to halt it or study it.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: posthuman · scientist · researcher · mathematician · physicist · diplomat · traveler · acorporeal beings · immortal beings · hyper-rational · emotionally detached · flat characters · relatable posthumans
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2372
A dying cosmic hero sets out on a final galaxy-spanning farewell, touching lives before his end.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: heroic · noble · philosophical · introspective · altruistic · melancholy · spiritual · mythic · alien · humanized · legendary · stoic
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2389
