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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror.
Motifs labels used: giant insects, spiderwebs, stone circle, symbols, cobwebs, mosquitoes, beetles, scorpions, Nazis, time travel
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
In a near-future jungle war over insects, a team of humans faces a rising insect intelligence fighting back.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: insects · bugs · hive mind · mutated insects · gigantism · jungle · river · simulacra · humanoid insects · pollutants
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1428
A teen tinker’s apprentice survives a monster assault on his walled city and uncovers a dark secret beneath it.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: giant bugs · spiders · steam technology · gears · contraptions · mechanical limbs · walls · festival · underground tunnels · medicine · pets as insects · mounted spiders
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1519
A cross-country thriller where a detective and a private eye uncover a terrifying link between crimes, missing people, and insects.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: insects · arachnids · mandibles · crawling · bodies · disease · sect/secte wordplay · music
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1571
A Neil Gaiman-curated anthology of 16 strange creature stories, ranging from whimsical fables to eerie horror.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: creatures · bees · wasps · griffins · werewolves · snakes · sunbird · Death · maps · mirrors · black dot · museum · trees · birds · insects
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1590
Stranded in a strange dimension and erased from her family’s memories, Sarah must win back trust and find a way home.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: math · equations · memory · spiders · giant bugs · zombies · telepathy · chairs · mice · comic conventions · orange sky · alternate ecology
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1602
Last survivors of Earth and an engineered spider civilization race toward the same planet in a sweeping battle for survival.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: spiders · webs · nanovirus · cryosleep · hatching · inheritance · messenger · ants · beetles · names reused · orbital guardian · terraforming
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1602
A princess navigates war, prophecy, and an ecological catastrophe in a vast post-apocalyptic world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: Giant insects · Ohmu · Maps · Flying machines · Airships · Spore clouds · Forest · Blue clothing · Prophecy · Ruins · Ancient technology · Insects
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1698
As war engulfs the Lowlands, scattered allies, spies, and rival powers race through sieges, betrayals, and shifting loyalties.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: insect metaphor · sieges · weapons · machines · airships · crossbows · artifice · shadow box · dreams · blood · war engines · bugs
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1723
Ancient carnivorous spiders awaken worldwide, forcing scientists, officials, and survivors into a fast-moving apocalypse.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: spiders · webs · eggs · swarm · skittering · black mass · insect imagery · seismic readings · cliffhanger · crawlies
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1729
A worldwide spider outbreak enters a second, deadlier phase as survivors, scientists, and leaders scramble to contain it.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: spiders · egg sacs · silk · quarantine · nukes · protocols · cliffhanger · cocooning · crawling · hatching · infestation · swarm · webs
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1784
A grieving human woman and a secret cyborg spider-shifter team up on a dangerous space mission—and spark hard.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: spider · web · ropes · parasite · smell · darkness · death imagery · flowers · plants · fauna · cargo · monster · fangs · mechanical limbs
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1799
The Doctor and Donna land in a war-torn alien world where humans, centaur-like aliens, and a killer robot face a bug infestation.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: bugs · beetles · insects · centaurs · horse puns · robot exterminator · sound effects · music · jailbreak · motorbike
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1836
