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Characterization labels used: historian, physicist, researchers, witnesses, victim descendants, denialists, bureaucrats, perpetrators, judges/hearing participants, morally driven protagonist

Relationships labels used: husband-wife, professional partnership, victim-descendant, researcher-subject, witness-collective, state conflict, cross-cultural relationship, family grief, power and accountability

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Parasite Eve

Hideaki Sena · 2005

A grieving scientist’s experiment with his dead wife’s cells awakens a terrifying force inside the human body.

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Characterization labels: researcher protagonist · scientist protagonist · grieving husband · teen transplant patient · student researcher · obsessive experimenter · medical professional · morally compromised

Relationships labels: husband-wife · parent-child · doctor-patient · researcher-student · organ donor-recipient · family grief · obsession · manipulation · dependency · betrayal

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Distance: 0.2011

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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card · 1997 · Pastwatch

Future historians try to alter Columbus’s voyage to avert catastrophe and reshape humanity’s history.

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Characterization labels: historical figure · scientist · historian · researcher · investigator · fanatic · charismatic leader · determined protagonist · weak characterization · idealistic

Relationships labels: colleague partnership · marriage · parent child · cross timeline influence · community mission · power asymmetry

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Distance: 0.2138

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Countdown

Mira Grant · 2011 · Newsflesh

A prequel novella traces the scientific missteps and media chaos that unleash the world of the Newsflesh zombie apocalypse.

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Characterization labels: scientists · doctors · journalists · reporters · college students · activists · victims · patients · parents · ordinary people · dogs · idealists · well intentioned · tragic · morally flawed

Relationships labels: family · adoption · husband relationship · parent child · colleague relationships · community · professional relationships · public trust · institutional betrayal · scientist spouse

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Distance: 0.2165

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Interference

Brad Parks · 2020

A physicist vanishes after baffling seizures, pulling his wife and a detective into a race through science, money, and suspicion.

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Characterization labels: physicist · professor · detective · widow · wife · billionaire · investor · assistant · postdoc · college student · retired cop · missing person · scientist protagonist · grieving detective · hearing impaired protagonist · sympathetic characters

Relationships labels: marriage · husband wife · family · sister bond · parent child · professional rivalry · employer employee · mentor mentee · investigator suspect · power imbalance

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Eternity

Greg Bear · 1988 · The Way

A time-end messenger draws scattered survivors into a fight over whether to reopen, destroy, or preserve the Way.

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Characterization labels: scientists · physicists · politicians · technocrats · posthumans · older characters · descendants · alien intelligence · godlike beings · scholar heroine · investigator · unwilling inheritor · character-driven backstory

Relationships labels: family legacy · grandmother granddaughter · estranged spouses · faction rivalry · human alien conflict · political alliance · mentor inheritance · community rebuilding · power struggle

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Distance: 0.2235

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The Sentence

Christina Dalcher · 2023

In a near-future U.S., a prosecutor who sought death penalty execution must uncover the truth before she pays for a possible mistake.

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Characterization labels: prosecutor · lawyer · widow · grieving spouse · death row inmate · anti-death penalty · morally conflicted · driven · desperate · flawed protagonist

Relationships labels: husband and wife · widowhood · parent and child · prosecutor and defendant · prosecutor and inmate · romantic loss · professional responsibility · activist network · community pressure · betrayal

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Distance: 0.2292

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Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer · 2002 · Neanderthal Parallax

A Neanderthal scientist crosses into modern Canada, sparking a cross-cultural collision with a parallel human world.

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Characterization labels: physicist protagonist · scientist protagonist · Neanderthal protagonist · female scientist · geneticist · anthropologist · accused partner · celebrity outsider · rational scientists

Relationships labels: partner relationship · man-mate · woman-mate · romantic tension · intercultural relationship · friendship · colleague relationship · trial of partner · power imbalance · sexual relationship

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Space

James A. Michener · 1984

An epic fictionalized history of America’s space race, following scientists, astronauts, politicians, and families.

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Characterization labels: engineer · scientist · astronaut · test pilot · senator · reporter · German rocket scientist · political operative · families · charlatan · televangelist · anti-science agitator · driven protagonist · ensemble cast · realistic characters

Relationships labels: families · marriage · husband-wife · professional rivalry · political conflict · science-religion conflict · public-private tension · community · national competition

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The End Has Come

John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Megan Arkenberg, Chris Avellone, Elizabeth Bear, Annie Bellet, Tananarive Due, Jamie Ford, Mira Grant, Hugh Howey, Jake Kerr, Nancy Kress, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Will McIntosh, Leife Shallcross, Scott Sigler, Carrie Vaughn, Robin Wasserman, David Wellington, Ben H. Winters · 2015 · The Apocalypse Triptych

A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.

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Characterization labels: survivors · investigators · scientists · families · children · outcasts · soldiers · judges · civil servants · creators · parents · caretakers · isolated protagonists