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Similar in plot structure

These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Dogs of War.

Plot structure labels used: series installment, continuity-heavy, flashbacks, interludes, rebuilding arc, high-stakes escalation, race against time, multiple threat threads, cumulation of prior storylines

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

Cover of Ex-Communication by Peter Clines

Ex-Communication

Peter Clines · 2013 · Ex-Heroes

Superheroes in a fortified Los Angeles face smarter zombies, a growing crisis inside the walls, and a supernatural threat.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1075

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It's Hell to Choose

Michael Anderle · 2016 · The Kurtherian Gambit

A spacefaring vampire-led team faces escalating enemies, tech theft, and a devastating loss as Earth catches on.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1165

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Polity Agent

Neal Asher · 2007 · Agent Cormac

A Polity agent tracks alien nanotech, rogue AIs, and shifting loyalties as a future civilization nears crisis.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1179

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Torn

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2011 · The Missing

Two teen time travelers board Henry Hudson’s ship in 1611, where a mutiny and shifting history threaten everything.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1198

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Apostles of Mercy

Lindsay Ellis · 2024 · Noumena

In a militarizing Earth on the brink, a human translator and her alien bond face new species, danger, and hard choices.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1239

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The Golden Torc

Julian May · 1982 · Saga of the Pliocene Exile

Exiled humans in the Pliocene are pulled into alien power struggles, psychic politics, and a war that could reshape humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1239

Cover of Planet Killer by Lindsay Buroker

Planet Killer

Lindsay Buroker · 2019 · Star Kingdom

A brainy, charismatic hero races to stop an invasion and a bioweapon threat while navigating royal politics and allies.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1253

Cover of Two Graves by Douglas Preston

Two Graves

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 2012 · Pendergast

A grieving FBI agent hunts kidnappers and a hotel serial killer, uncovering a secret Nazi conspiracy tied to his family.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1267

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No Time Like the Past

Jodi Taylor · 2015 · The Chronicles of St Mary's

Time-traveling historians at St. Mary’s juggle ghosts, fire, and history’s most dangerous moments while chaos closes in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1267

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Prentice Alvin

Orson Scott Card · 2001 · Tales of Alvin Maker

A boy returns home to apprentice as a blacksmith while learning to master his maker's power in an alternate America.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1286

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Thunder of Heaven

Tim LaHaye, Craig Parshall · 2011 · The End

In a near-future world of prophecy and political collapse, a Christian resistance fights to stop terror and control.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1291

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A Call to Vengeance

David Weber, Timothy Zahn, Thomas Pope · 2018 · Honorverse: Manticore Ascendant

A battered young navy and its officers race to expose a hidden enemy and survive political sabotage after a home-system attack.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1298

Cover of Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

Saved by the Alien Warrior

Hope Hart · 2020 · Warriors of Agron

An injured Earth ballerina and a guarded alien warrior team up to survive a hostile planet and save missing women.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1305

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Of Fire and Night

Kevin J. Anderson · 2006 · The Saga of Seven Suns

As war spreads across multiple worlds, rival species and human factions race to survive an escalating galactic collapse.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1321

Cover of Extinction Shadow by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Extinction Shadow

Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri · 2019 · Extinction Cycle: Dark Age

Eight years after civilization’s collapse, survivors face an evolved mutant threat that could restart extinction.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1323

Cover of Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Deliverance

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2018 · Hell Divers

A rescue mission across a mutated Earth collides with an airship power struggle in this nonstop post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1332

Cover of The Numbing by Flint Maxwell

The Numbing

Flint Maxwell · 2020 · Whiteout

A survivor group treks south through a frozen apocalypse toward rumored safety, where monsters and people alike may be deadly.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1337

Cover of Catalyst by Michael C. Grumley

Catalyst

Michael C. Grumley · 2015 · Breakthrough

A marine biologist and navy team chase a buried secret that could change how humans understand life, evolution, and other species.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1341