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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for We Are the Ants.
Premise labels used: alien ultimatum, end-of-world choice, depressed teen, suicidal ideation, save-the-world dilemma, existential crisis, grief recovery, high school bullying, closeted/normalized queer life
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise embeddings are close.
An amnesiac, many-minded survivor in a sealed refuge questions his humanity after finding another person outside.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · multiple selves · memory loss · humanity question · last survivor · underground refuge · hostile surface · post-human survival · personhood test · alienation
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1759
A queer college freshman facing suicide gets nine days to choose life as an asteroid heads for Earth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: end of the world · suicide attempt interrupted · nine-day countdown · queer first love · mental health crisis · last days on Earth · self-acceptance journey
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1801
Teen superheroes grieve a teammate’s death, test loyalties, and face a dangerous choice that could change the team.
Why this is here
Premise labels: grief aftermath · team fracture · teen superheroes · death reversal · moral dilemma · coming of age · future consequences
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1840
A Hugo-winning short story collection where Octavia Butler explores alien coexistence, illness, language loss, and the costs of survival.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien contact · symbiotic coexistence · genetic disease · post-apocalyptic survival · communication breakdown · thought experiment · moral dilemma · duty versus freedom
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1862
Two bored high school girls keep living their everyday lives under a silent alien mothership over Tokyo.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien invasion · mothership overhead · ordinary life under crisis · teen life · coming of age · school life · post-invasion normalcy · everyday survival
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1883
In a future where teen sadness is treated as contagious, a guarded girl fights a memory-wiping system closing in on her love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: teen suicide epidemic · memory erasure · involuntary treatment · surveillance state · forbidden feelings · survival under monitoring · love under threat
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1888
In a climate-ravaged near future, a young woman reconsiders love, friendship, and who she’d face the end of the world with.
Why this is here
Premise labels: end of the world · love vs friendship · affective ambiguity · choose your people · climate collapse · relationship triangle · future-facing reflection · intimacy under crisis · unnameable relationship
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1888
A trapped hawk-boy gets pulled into rescuing escaped aliens and faces a life-changing bargain with a meddling cosmic force.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · coming-of-age · forced change · return to self · rescue mission · alien ally · war effort
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1934
A grieving mother slips into a near-identical life where her dead son is alive and everything feels unsettlingly familiar.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate life · parallel universe · identity crisis · second chance · psychological disruption · family in crisis · parenthood · memory conflict
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1936
A 27-story Philip K. Dick collection of early SF tales about warped reality, postwar dread, robots, and what makes us human.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · memory manipulation · alternate reality · post-apocalyptic survival · robot rebellion · humanity test · alien infiltration · time anomaly · state control · war aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1952
After a hypnotic encounter, a teen notices tiny changes in everyone around him and starts questioning reality and his future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: hypnosis · altered reality · teen existential crisis · coming of age · identity crisis · search for self · college decision
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1960
A lone human survivor wakes aboard an alien ship and must help rebuild Earth under coercive, unsettling conditions.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post apocalypse · alien rescue · forced coexistence · genetic trade · human survival · species hybridization · repopulation · awakening survivors · contact with aliens · second chance
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1966
