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Characterization labels used: genius scientist, estranged brother, veterinarian protagonist, damaged protagonist, sociopathic scientist, brilliant but unhinged, sympathetic hero, unlikeable character, childhood trauma, traumatized adult

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One Yellow Eye

Leigh Radford · 2025

A grieving scientist hides her infected husband while racing a covert lab to find a cure after a zombie outbreak.

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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: 0.1342

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Mutation

Robin Cook · 1998

A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.

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Characterization labels: mad scientist · obsessed scientist · geneticist · doctor protagonist · scientist father · anxious mother · child prodigy · evil genius · sociopathic child · emotionless child · naive protagonist · high-strung characters

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Distance: 0.1270

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De engelenmaker

Stefan Brijs · 2006

A returning village doctor arrives with three secretive, disfigured children, stirring suspicion around cloning, faith, and power.

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Characterization labels: mad scientist · genius · outsider · asocial · emotionally detached · ambitious · obsessive · traumatized · misunderstood genius · frustrated · childhood trauma · morally rigid · cold parent

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1323

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Under Story

Chloe Benjamin · 2026

A grieving scientist in Antarctica discovers a strange light that may open a door to second chances, love, and time itself.

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Characterization labels: biologist · mycologist · physicist · scientist protagonist · grieving parent · divorced protagonist · messy protagonist · emotionally fractured · brilliant scientist · ambitious · flawed characters · found family

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Distance: 0.1333

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The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts · 2015

An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · disfigured protagonist · alcoholic protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obsessed philosopher · surly character · practical character · AI character · shadowy institute · traumatized survivor

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Distance: 0.1352

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · obsessive genius · hubristic man · misunderstood creature · intelligent being · lonely outsider · morally ambiguous · tragic figure · irresponsible creator

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Distance: 0.1403

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Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work

Guy Haley · 2020 · Warhammer 40,000

A genius Tech-Priest leads a dead-world expedition into buried xenos secrets while past and present collide.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: genius protagonist · mad scientist · arrogant protagonist · eccentric scientist · charismatic antihero · heretical thinker · loner genius · tortured backstory · stoic warriors · transhuman characters · divisive protagonist

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Distance: 0.1427

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The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey · 2021

A cloning scientist finds her husband has replaced her with a better, obedient copy—then the dead body forces both wives to cooperate.

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Characterization labels: brilliant scientist · workaholic · cold protagonist · unlikable protagonist · morally compromised · angry protagonist · self-absorbed · controlling · docile clone · obedient clone · submissive wife · abusive father · career-driven woman · ethically ruthless · emotionally repressed · traumatized protagonist · morally gray characters

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Distance: 0.1434

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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 1897

A reclusive scientist makes himself invisible, only to spiral into fear, crime, and violent ruin.

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Characterization labels: arrogant protagonist · mad scientist · genius gone wrong · alienated outsider · antisocial · violent · selfish · narcissistic · unreliable sympathy · bullying · paranoid · mentally unstable · reclusive

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Distance: 0.1453

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Ascension

Nicholas Binge · 2023

A scientific expedition climbs a newly appeared Pacific mountain where time bends, memories fray, and reality turns hostile.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · brilliant scientist · introverted · loner · emotionally stunted · genius protagonist · guilt-ridden · traumatized · psychologically unraveling · physicist · team specialist · military figures · anthropologist · biologist · geologist · chemist

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Distance: 0.1482

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Wrath

Shäron Moalem, Daniel Kraus · 2022

A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.

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Characterization labels: genius animal · unlikable characters · morally gray characters · scientist · tech CEO · disabled child · rat catcher · antihero CEO · flawed scientist

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Distance: 0.1502

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The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 2005

Two classic Wells novellas: one sends a scientist into a distant human future; the other unleashes a dangerous invisibility experiment.

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Characterization labels: unnamed scientist · mad scientist · ambitious scientist · curious investigator · unlikable protagonist · irreverent protagonist · unsympathetic antagonist

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1514

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