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Kelley Skovron, Jon Skovron

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Similar in plot structure

These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Hope and Red.

Plot structure labels used: dual timeline, dual POV, parallel backstories, slow-burn convergence, late character meeting, character-driven, training arc, time skips, intercut backstory, series setup, quest alignment

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their plot structure embeddings are close.

Cover of Lightbreakers by Aja Gabel

Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel · 2025

A grieving physicist and his artist wife are drawn into a secret time-travel project that forces them to face memory, love, and loss.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1023

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Kill Team

Jason Anspach, Nick Cole · 2017 · Galaxy's Edge

Elite legionnaires go on a black-ops revenge mission while a deep-cover spy thread exposes a wider galactic conspiracy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1076

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Iron Council

China Miéville · 2004 · New Crobuzon

In a war-torn fantasy city, rebels and fugitives chase a legendary runaway train as revolution brews on every front.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1103

Cover of The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

The Lost Gate

Orson Scott Card · 2011 · Mither Mages

A boy in a secretive magical family discovers he can create gates, triggering a dangerous escape across two worlds.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1112

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The Bard's Blade

Brian D. Anderson · 2020 · The Sorcerer's Song

A sheltered musician and his betrothed are forced beyond a magical border into a dangerous world to face prophecy and evil.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1119

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Last Exit

Max Gladstone · 2022

A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1119

Cover of Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler

Ashes of the Sun

Django Wexler · 2020 · Burningblade & Silvereye

Separated siblings end up on opposite sides of a magic-ruled conflict, each chasing power, truth, and revenge.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1120

Cover of Now, Then, and Everywhen by Rysa Walker

Now, Then, and Everywhen

Rysa Walker · 2020 · Chronos Origins

Two future historians collide across eras when a time shift erases lives and threatens to rewrite history forever.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1122

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The Principle of Moments

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson · 2024 · Order of Legends

A Black queer time-travel space opera where two heroes across centuries race a prophecy to save a tyrannical galaxy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1129

Cover of The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

The Future of Another Timeline

Annalee Newitz · 2019

Two women across decades join a covert time-war over history, feminism, and who gets to shape the future.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1129

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The After War

Brandon Zenner · The After War

Two survivor groups leave hidden refuges after apocalypse and disease, crossing a ruined continent toward family and a changed world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1130

Cover of Star Wars: The Mandalorian Armor by K.W. Jeter

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Armor

K.W. Jeter · 1998 · Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars

A wounded Boba Fett survives the Sarlacc while a tangled bounty-hunter conspiracy unfolds across two timelines.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1142

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Voyage

Stephen Baxter · 1997 · NASA Trilogy

An alternate-history NASA saga where JFK survives and America races to send astronauts to Mars in the 1980s.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1145

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Scarlet Odyssey

C.T. Rwizi · 2020 · Scarlet Odyssey

A gender-defiant young man joins a ragtag quest across an African-inspired world where magic, politics, and violence collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1146

Cover of The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway · 2014 · River of No Return

A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1153

Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden · 2018 · On a Sunbeam

A young woman joins a space restoration crew while chasing the past love that still calls her back.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1162

Cover of Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson

Isles of the Emberdark

Brandon Sanderson · 2025 · The Cosmere Universe

A trapper and an exiled dragon chase survival, freedom, and answers across a far-future Cosmere of portals and politics.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1167

Cover of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

A pandemic ends civilization, and scattered survivors are linked by one actor, one comic, and a troupe preserving art.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1177

Cover of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

Sean Lusk · 2022

A gifted clockmaker’s son grows up amid automata, family loss, and a search that leads from London to Constantinople.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1178

Cover of How We End by L.M. Juniper

How We End

L.M. Juniper · 2022 · How We Survive Series

Seven strangers try to survive a fast-moving zombie outbreak and the end of London while forging an unlikely family.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1190

Cover of Fate of the Jedi: Abyss by Troy Denning

Fate of the Jedi: Abyss

Troy Denning · 2009 · Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi

Luke and Ben follow a dark Force mystery into the Maw while the Jedi clash with government power and madness spreads.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1193

Cover of The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

The Steel Remains

Richard K. Morgan · 2009 · A Land Fit for Heroes

A disgraced war hero is pulled back into danger as old comrades reunite to face a brutal new threat after war.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1194

Cover of Hive by D.L. Orton

Hive

D.L. Orton · 2025 · Madders of Time

In a dying biodome, two survivors send one man into the past to try to save humanity and their love.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1194