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At the Mountains of Madness

H.P. Lovecraft

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Characterization labels used: geologist protagonist, scientist narrator, expedition leader, academic explorers, survivor narrator, curious investigators, impossibly ancient beings

Relationships labels used: expedition team, mentor-student dynamic, warning to others, group survival, creators and creations, human versus nonhuman

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H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 2

Gou Tanabe, 田辺剛 · 2019 · H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness

A research expedition in Antarctica uncovers a buried alien city and the terrifying history hidden within it.

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Characterization labels: scientists · professors · geologist · investigators · expedition team · missing person search · curious · doomed explorers · witness characters · helplessness · desperation · obsession · madness · serious faces

Relationships labels: expedition team · comradeship · rescue mission · missing comrades · research partnership · human vs nonhuman

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Distance: 0.1582

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The Sentinel

Arthur C. Clarke · 1983

A Clarke anthology of short SF tales about lunar discovery, alien artifacts, and the awe and peril of spacefaring.

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Characterization labels: scientists · astronauts · geologists · explorers · pioneers · bland characters · interchangeable characters · technically minded

Relationships labels: rival teams · stranded pair · cooperation · authority hierarchy · exploration team · human-alien contact

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Distance: 0.1950

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The Third Gate

Lincoln Child · 2012 · Jeremy Logan

A history professor turned enigmalogist joins a secret dig for an ancient pharaoh’s tomb where curse-like events mount.

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Characterization labels: enigmalogist · history professor · archaeologist · treasure hunter · scientist · doctor · psychic · empath · reclusive millionaire · specialist

Relationships labels: team dynamics · mentor hire · professional rivalry · married couple · colleague relationship · expedition hierarchy · dependency

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Distance: 0.2002

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These Lifeless Things

Premee Mohamed · 2021 · Solaris Satellites

A survivor’s journal from a shattered city becomes a future researcher’s key to uncovering what destroyed humanity.

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Characterization labels: survivor · researcher · anthropologist · journal keeper · ordinary people · flawed characters · introspective voice · resourceful survivor · skeptical scientist

Relationships labels: survivor cohort · research team · colleague tension · mentorless inquiry · intergenerational link · reader and journal · community survival · strained relationships

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Distance: 0.2032

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Little Green Men

Peter Cawdron · 2013 · First Contact

A stranded crew on a frozen alien world faces deadly attacks, a mystery, and a terrifying first contact.

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Characterization labels: science officer · crew ensemble · resourceful protagonist · skeptical protagonist · beleaguered crew · believable characters

Relationships labels: crew cooperation · stranded team · authority hierarchy · human-alien encounter · survival group

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Distance: 0.2088

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The Nameless City

H.P. Lovecraft · 2009

A lone explorer enters a nameless desert ruin and descends into a buried history older than humanity.

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Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · explorer · archaeologist · adventurer · curious narrator · fearful narrator · obsessive curiosity · isolated individual · lonely traveler

Relationships labels: human vs unknown · human vs environment · narrator-city relation · reader-narrator alignment · community taboo · ancestral legacy

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Distance: 0.2115

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Saturation Point

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Terrible Worlds: Transformations

A scientist returns to a lethal equatorial jungle zone on a rescue mission, and discovers corporate secrets and ecological horrors.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · biologist · ecologist · naive narrator · morally gray heroine · stressed narrator · passive observer · corporate employee · corporate executive · soldiers · research team · mentor figure · female scientist

Relationships labels: mentor-student relationship · corporate control · exploitative employer · team expedition · rescue mission · professional dependency · betrayal · human-vs-nature conflict · us-vs-them

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Distance: 0.2120

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The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells · 1986

Two classic Wells tales: a time traveler reaches a distant future, and England faces a devastating alien invasion.

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Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · inventor · time traveler · unnamed narrator · ordinary man · survivor · scientist · alien beings · martians · class-divided humans

Relationships labels: human vs alien · class conflict · exploitative hierarchy · predator-prey · hostile encounter · survival dependency · group under stress · scientist and listeners

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Distance: 0.2121

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The Lost World

Michael Crichton · 1997 · Jurassic Park

Years after a dinosaur disaster, a secret island draws scientists back into a survival race with terrifying prehistoric predators.

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Characterization labels: returning protagonist · scientist protagonists · child geniuses · competent women · chaos-theory monologues · expert ensemble · badass heroine · hubristic antagonists

Relationships labels: rescue mission · mentor-student · team dynamics · rival scientists · corporate conflict · protective friendship

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Distance: 0.2214

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The Object

Joshua T. Calvert · 2024

A dismissed NASA physicist spots a solar-system anomaly and is pulled into a mission that could rewrite reality.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · astronaut candidate · physicist · astronomer · dismissed outsider · determined heroine · moral conviction · competent crew · multi-national team · politically shaped characters · flat characters · relatable characters

Relationships labels: teamwork · crew dynamics · professional rivalry · institutional conflict · romance · cross-cultural cooperation · power imbalance · validation struggle · mentorless mission

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Distance: 0.2225

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H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1

Gou Tanabe · 2019 · H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness

A manga adaptation of Lovecraft’s Antarctic expedition story, where scientists uncover deadly mysteries beneath the ice.

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Characterization labels: scientists · explorers · expedition team · biologist · professors · curious investigators · reckless decision-making · believable period characters · ordinary men

Relationships labels: expedition team · leader and chief biologist · scientific camaraderie · group separation · camp isolation · search and rescue · human versus unknown

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Distance: 0.2227

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The Left Right Game

Jack Anderson · 2018

A journalist’s strange road-game investigation turns into a perilous expedition through a supernatural otherworld.

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Characterization labels: smart protagonist · skeptical protagonist · female protagonist · journalist protagonist · obsessive character · ferryman figure · expedition members · believable cast · complex characters · morally flawed characters

Relationships labels: roommates · expedition group · family bond · siblings · leader-follower dynamic · friendship bond · teamwork · betrayal · dependence

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Distance: 0.2259

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