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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Exoskeleton.
Characterization labels used: convicted man, innocent protagonist, unlikely hero, everyman protagonist, sympathetic protagonist, secondary characters underdeveloped, flat characters, sadists, guilt-ridden employee, good guys/bad guys polarity
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A wrongfully jailed man returns to Moscow, kills the cop who framed him, and slips into the victim’s phone and life.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: small man · wronged protagonist · corrupt cop · morally conflicted protagonist · isolated protagonist · desperate protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1231
In a flooded, theocratic future, one privacy-loving man quietly resists a world built on compulsory sharing and blind faith.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · dissident protagonist · antihero · naive protagonist · relatable protagonist · skeptical protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1240
A career-spanning Richard Matheson anthology of short, twisty horror, sci-fi, and suspense stories.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonists · ordinary people · older men · young woman protagonist · couple protagonists · authority figures · psychopathic antagonist · helpless protagonist · morally pressured characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1258
In a fully monitored state, one man’s private resistance collides with surveillance, propaganda, and forbidden love.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary protagonist · rebellious protagonist · isolated protagonist · bureaucrat protagonist · oppressed citizen · tortured prisoner · flat character · underdeveloped characters · emotionally distant characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1283
A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman · ordinary man · moral protagonist · gullible protagonist · sympathetic protagonist · tragic protagonist · incidental characters · caricatures · grotesques · political figures · military figures
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1319
A clone laborer on a dangerous colony mission discovers he’s not the only version of himself still alive.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · slacker · reluctant volunteer · sarcastic narrator · inept protagonist · relatable protagonist · traumatized protagonist · clueless protagonist · character-driven
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1366
An ordinary Englishman inherits a cursed magic ring and is dragged into a comic battle between modern life and Norse gods.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: hapless hero · everyman · timid protagonist · reluctant leader · ordinary man · nice guy · underdog · male protagonist · worldly gods
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1441
A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · awakened protagonist · resistant protagonist · shallow characterization · single viewpoint character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1449
In a China-dominated future, a young gay man with a hidden mixed heritage tries to build a life across shifting worlds.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · gay protagonist · closeted character · mixed-heritage character · marginalized characters · ordinary people · flawed characters · introverted · self-conscious · unexceptional protagonist · civilian life
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1453
An alcoholic loner survives the zombie apocalypse from a mountain fortress until another survivor changes everything.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · anti-hero · alcoholic protagonist · loner · flawed hero · ordinary survivor · serial killer antagonist · psychopath · female survivor
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1469
A grieving man is pulled into parallel lives and a deadly confrontation with his own double.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: flawed protagonist · everyman · grieving widower · traumatized man · unlikable lead (mixed) · redeemable character · doppelgänger antagonist · psychopath · serial killer · psychiatrist · experimental patient · relatable protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1479
A speculative short-story collection bound by death, grief, rage, and Ellison’s experimental, high-voltage prose.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: angry protagonist · grieving protagonist · outsider · underdog · homeless woman · elderly guardian · moralistic authorial presence · traumatized character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1495
