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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
Plot structure labels used: serial arcs, episodic opening, slow build, parallel canon, divergent timeline, foreshadowing, plot twists, multiple arcs, ongoing narrative, compressed first year
Focused on “serial arc” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.
A human scientist and an alien general are forced together when a damaged warship meets a remote mining station.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: serial arc · episodic continuity · slow build romance · action-romance balance · ongoing series setup · dual-part structure · withheld backstory · first-book foundation · midpoint shift
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1108
Otto Octavius’s Spider-Man career collides with Venom, the Avengers, and a growing Goblin war as control starts slipping.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: episodic arc · serial buildup · penultimate volume · filler arc · event setup · escalation · cliffhanger setup · interwoven side plots · annual side story · slow burn
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.0835
A relaunch volume that assembles a new multinational mutant team and launches the modern X-Men era.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: serial arc · issue-to-issue continuity · cliffhanger ending · introductory arc · reintroduction · character-driven arc · team-formation arc · one- and two-parters · foreshadowing · ongoing subplot
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1138
In a vast 13th-century alternate history, knights, cardinals, and Mongol rivals race through war and intrigue toward shifting destinies.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: parallel storylines · multi-thread narrative · intercut chapters · serial arc · collaborative plotting · cliffhangers · open ending · epilogue threads · simultaneous climaxes · slow buildup · late acceleration · intertwined arcs · partial resolution
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1161
A gender-apocalypse road trip collides with a returning space capsule that may end Yorick’s status as the last man.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: serial arc · interlocking subplots · two-part structure · multi-arc volume · side story · detour · cliffhanger · twists and turns · slow build · road trip structure
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1161
A Star Wars pilot-turned-Jedi retraces a missing spouse’s trail while training at Luke’s academy and chasing pirates.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: dual arc · two-part structure · retelling · continuity rewrite · retcon · overlapping timeline · first-half recap · second-half original plot · slow build · late acceleration · episodic digressions · offscreen events · shift from academy to undercover mission · parallel plotlines · longform
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.0976
A superhero-turned-mayor navigates city crises, hidden pasts, and a city full of secrets in alternate New York.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: episodic arcs · self-contained stories · interwoven timelines · flashbacks · multiple storylines · standalone issue · series continuity · reveals from the past · teased long arc · episodic buildup
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.0993
Young Superman’s first brush with kryptonite sparks a mystery that tests his powers, fears, and relationships.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: parallel threads · investigation plot · flashback framing · early-career origin tale · intersecting storylines · slow build · reveal-driven · episodic collection · converging arcs
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1020
A dying world and a memory-bound afterlife collide as one woman’s struggle in Antarctica reshapes the fate of the dead.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: alternating storylines · parallel narratives · interwoven chapters · dual timeline · character vignettes · episodic structure · slow reveal · predetermined ending · anticlimactic ending
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1058
Two brothers, changed by a failed alchemical experiment, search for a way to restore their bodies.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: episodic opening · serialized arc · self-contained chapters · cliffhanger ending · gradual backstory reveal · slow-burn worldbuilding · multiple volumes bound together · foreshadowing · interlocking arcs
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1061
An ancient secret society of genius historical figures emerges as the hidden prehistory of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: multi-timeline · time jumps · flashbacks · nonlinear narrative · slow build · set-up volume · cliffhanger ending · unresolved ending · serial continuation · parallel plot threads
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1068
An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.
Why this is here
Plot structure labels: dual timeline · alternating chapters · interwoven narratives · flashbacks · parallel arcs · converging storylines · character study · slow burn · small scope · nonlinear
Semantic match: ranked by plot structure
Distance: 0.1069
