The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
A midwife survives a plague that decimates women and children, then travels a brutal new world in disguise.
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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America.
Plot structure labels used: first-person framed biography, retrospective narration, chronicle, picaresque, bildungsroman, road narrative, war campaign arc, political rise, predestined trajectory, episodic adventures, limited suspense, slow build, flashback framing
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Deadeye Dick
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Refugee
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A Victorian expedition to Africa uncovers a lost civilization and its immortal queen, whose beauty hides danger and obsession.
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New Blood
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The Glass Bead Game
A future-biography of a brilliant scholar in an intellectual utopia whose mastery of a mysterious game leads to doubt.
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After a solar flare and plague collapse civilization, a small band of survivors fights to stay human while building a new community.
The Emperor's Railroad
A boy and his mother cross a ruined future America with a mysterious knight, while ancient powers and undead dangers stalk the road.
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Sea of Rust
A scavenger robot fights to survive a post-human wasteland while rival machine collectives hunt independent minds.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
A clerk is sent to stop a mad scientist whose machines turn desire into reality and shatter a city’s order.
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The Lost World
An intrepid journalist joins a volatile scientific expedition into the Amazon to test claims of a dinosaur-haunted lost world.
Grasshopper Jungle
A horny, confused teen in small-town Iowa records the apocalypse as giant praying mantises overrun the world.