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Eugene Vodolazkin, Евгений Водолазкин

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Characterization labels used: amnesiac protagonist, ordinary man, survivor, historical witness, scientist, doctor, first love, granddaughter love interest, morally reflective, melancholic

Relationships labels used: first love, granddaughter relationship, doctor-patient relationship, friendship, family loss, romance, power and victim, betrayal, community

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The Bridge

Iain Banks · 2001

An amnesiac man wakes on a vast bridge-world and must untangle dream, memory, and identity to find himself.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac protagonist · comatose protagonist · engineer · psychiatrist · barbarian · love interest · hedonistic · materialistic · working-class · upper-class · jaded · primal · comic relief

Relationships labels: unconventional romance · love triangle · class-crossing relationship · doctor-patient relationship · dependency · betrayal · open relationship · family background · romantic longing

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1646

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The House of Thunder

Leigh Nichols, Dean Koontz · 1992

An amnesiac woman recovering in a hospital begins seeing impossible men from her traumatic past—and doubts her sanity.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac protagonist · traumatized woman · physicist · doctor figure · caretaker suspicion · vulnerable protagonist · strong-willed protagonist · unreliable perception · handsome doctor · antagonistic men

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · romance subplot · instant attraction · caretaker dependency · past victimization · authority mistrust · community complicity

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1685

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Adrienne Wilder · 2019 · Wolves Incarnate

A dying young man and an amnesiac protector flee deadly creatures while uncovering a secret that rewrites what shifters are.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac hero · terminally ill protagonist · protector · mysterious stranger · conscience scientist · alpha male · beta dynamic · primal instinct

Relationships labels: m/m romance · bodyguard bond · protector protected · brother bond · brother loss · forbidden attraction · sexual bonding · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.1811

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac protagonist · damaged protagonist · love interest · psychotherapist · eccentric scientist · conceptual monster · cat sidekick · unreliable guide · self-splitting identity

Relationships labels: lost love · romance · guide relationship · therapist-patient · pursuit · dependency · cat companionship · self-relationship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1811

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City of Illusions

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1967 · The Hainish Cycle

An amnesiac stranger crosses a ruined future Earth to uncover his identity and the truth behind a city ruled by lies.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac protagonist · alienated protagonist · questing hero · outsider · competent survivor · self-discovery arc · psychologically reserved · morally honest · mysterious identity

Relationships labels: found family · teacher-student · community belonging · romantic liaison · trust and distrust · power asymmetry · betrayal · parental care

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1827

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Parasite

Mira Grant · 2013 · Parasitology

In a near-future world cured by implanted tapeworms, an amnesiac woman uncovers a frightening medical conspiracy.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac heroine · naive protagonist · strong-willed lead · scientist characters · corporate executive · doctor boyfriend · protective parents · parasitologist · childlike adult

Relationships labels: romance · boyfriend · parent-child conflict · guardianship · corporate control · family estrangement · supportive partner · romantic relationship

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1828

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The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2003

A man whose dreams rewrite reality is used by an ambitious psychiatrist to try remaking the world.

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Characterization labels: ordinary protagonist · passive protagonist · quiet protagonist · reluctant hero · power-hungry antagonist · ambitious psychiatrist · manipulative authority figure · vulnerable patient · love interest · underdeveloped supporting cast · egomaniac · mild-mannered lead

Relationships labels: patient-doctor · therapeutic power imbalance · romantic relationship · friendship · manipulation · dependency · trust and betrayal · control dynamic · mentor abuse · love under pressure

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Distance: 0.1862

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The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier · 2007

A dying world and a memory-bound afterlife collide as one woman’s struggle in Antarctica reshapes the fate of the dead.

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Characterization labels: last survivor · scientist protagonist · city residents · new arrivals · religious zealot · street preacher · newspaper editor · corrupt businessman · ordinary people · isolated protagonist · lonely characters · emotionally interior · memory shaped identity

Relationships labels: memory bonds · lost loved ones · family ties · romantic love · new lovers · long marriage · friendship · parent-child · community ties · interdependence · reunion

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1912

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Glasshouse

Charles Stross · 2006

An amnesiac future fugitive hides inside a 20th-century social experiment that soon turns sinister.

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Characterization labels: amnesiac · ex-spy · war veteran · fugitive · posthuman · female embodiment · gender-displaced · unreliable self · emotionally damaged · suspicious protagonist

Relationships labels: romance · married life · love interest · couple dynamics · power imbalance · manipulative authority · community conformity · betrayal · rivalry · dependency

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Distance: 0.1914

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Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Characterization labels: academic protagonist · scholar protagonist · unlikable protagonist · inept hero · savant character · psychiatric patient · scientist character · brutish savant · bookish intellectual · self-pitying narrator · complex protagonist

Relationships labels: marriage breakdown · former lover · family estrangement · doctor-patient relationship · friendship · romantic tension · parent-child estrangement

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1972

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The Egg and Other Stories

Andy Weir · 2017

Nine ultra-short speculative tales use wit and surprise endings to flip ordinary situations into mind-bending reveals.

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Characterization labels: ordinary people · scientists · inventors · doctors · patients · teenage girl · wealthy man · serial killer victim · alien · god figure · cat perspective · female narrators · male narrators · thin characterization · character sketch

Relationships labels: family · romance · marriage · parent-child · caregiving · doctor-patient · human-animal · power imbalance · betrayal · stranger encounter

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1974

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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman · 1993

Einstein dreams alternate worlds where time behaves differently, turning physics questions into lyrical philosophical vignettes.

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Characterization labels: young genius · patent clerk · scientist protagonist · nameless figures · ordinary people · observer protagonist · philosophical character types · human condition focus

Relationships labels: lovers · parents and children · friends · colleague relationship · community · isolation · family bonds · social dependence · shared loss · separation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1984

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