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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Origin.
Characterization labels used: linguist, scientist, veterinarian, biologist, doctor, general, rabbi, priest, misfits, outsiders, damaged goods, secretive characters, brave lead, manipulative antagonist
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This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
An asylum intern probes a violent patient’s strange dreams and discovers a reality beyond sleep and the stars.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: intern · doctor · patient · rural outsider · violent man · uneducated man · obsessive investigator · cosmic being · degenerate outsider (contested) · scientific narrator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1767
A grieving scientist hides her infected husband while racing a covert lab to find a cure after a zombie outbreak.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · microbiologist · virologist · brilliant scientist · grieving widow · obsessive caregiver · difficult protagonist · selfish protagonist · resourceful protagonist · ethical transgressor · burnout · exhaustion · obsession · desperation · reckless · humanized monster
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1826
A lab-made fungal plague sweeps England, forcing a desperate team into quarantined London to find a possible antidote.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist · mycologist · soldier · doctor · estranged husband · female scientist · antiheroic characters · unlikeable characters · cannon fodder · brilliant scientist · psychotic soldier · plucky survivors · military team
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1857
An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist · engineer · doctor · eccentric scientist · reticent narrator · moral skeptic · willing participant · terminally ill character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1883
A Jewish archaeologist is sent to A.D. 57 and must stop a physicist’s plan to kill Paul and change history.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: archaeologist · theoretical physicist · experimental physicist · linguist · Messianic Jew · secular Jew · angry antagonist · villainous scientist · reluctant believer · highly educated · strong-willed woman · cross-cultural outsider · scientist protagonist · love interest
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1896
Three foundational gothic-horror classics in one volume: a scientist's creation, a vampire's hunt, and a divided self.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist · doctor · lawyer · adventurer · count · monster · creature · dual self · obsessive · curious · respectable · ruthless · misunderstood outsider · morally conflicted · hubristic · well-respected
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1909
In 1952 Nazi-dominated Britain, a civil servant spy must help an imprisoned scientist flee before the Gestapo catch him.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: civil servant · spy · resistance operative · scientist · Gestapo hunter · political collaborators · ordinary people · hidden identity · fragile marriage · timid character · sympathetic antagonist · frightened characters · moles
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1928
A Sigma Force mission races from ancient caves to modern labs to uncover a DNA-linked mystery of human intelligence.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · geneticists · archaeologist · Catholic priest · Commander · specialist team · twin sisters · gorilla subject · underutilized character · lovable bruiser · comic relief · former assassin · heroic team · villainous scientists · ruthless villains · relentless villains · character growth
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1943
A landmark collection of Lovecraft tales of cosmic dread, forbidden knowledge, and sanity under siege.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientific investigator · curious scholar · logical protagonist · reclusive narrator · obsessive seeker · underdog outsider
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1943
A consultant who solves strange phenomena uncovers a hidden room and long-buried experiment at a coastal think tank.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: enigmalogist · investigator · scientist · history professor · empath · quirky protagonist · charismatic lead · moral center · believable characters · brilliant scientists · mad scientist · do-gooder hero
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1953
Antarctic scientists uncover a frozen alien and trigger a tense struggle to identify who among them has been replaced.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · researchers · male scientists · biologist · pathologist · cook · military personnel · intelligent characters · proactive characters · expendable cast · leaders and dissidents
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1957
A linguist stranded in an unknown, overcrowded city must survive when every language he knows fails him.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: linguist · polyglot · academic · intellectual · outsider · isolated protagonist · resourceful survivor · frustrated thinker
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1960
