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Plot structure labels used: epistolary structure, multi-voice narration, document collage, chronological hopping, interleaved timelines, mission episodic, slow build, info-dump heavy, open ending, cliffhanger ending, fragmented narrative, parallel threads

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Gold Fame Citrus

Claire Vaye Watkins · 2015

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Distance: 0.0940

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The Found Object Society

Michelle Maryk · 2026

A guilt-ridden heiress joins a secret society where touching objects lets members relive strangers’ deaths—and becomes addicted.

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Distance: 0.1035

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My Volcano

John Elizabeth Stintzi · 2022

A suddenly growing Central Park volcano links a global cast through disaster, transformation, and shifting realities.

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Distance: 0.1135

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Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1138

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The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Manuel Gonzales · 2016

A secret world-saving agency is attacked from within, forcing two young women on opposite sides into collision.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1176

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The Abyss Beyond Dreams

Peter F. Hamilton · 2014 · Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers

A Commonwealth founder enters the Void to save lost humans and uncovers a brutal alien threat and a brewing revolution.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1197

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After World

Debbie Urbanski · 2023

An AI archivist records the last human on Earth as civilization ends and the planet rewilds.

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Distance: 0.1204

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Floating Hotel

Grace Curtis · 2024

A drifting space hotel full of misfits and secrets faces spies, rebels, and a mystery that could change everything.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1206

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Discovery

J.A.J. Minton · 2025 · Strange Eons

In 1992, a deep-sea TV stunt uncovers an ancient force and sets off a global, reality-bending crisis.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1210

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The Mongoliad: Book One

Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo · 2012 · The Foreworld Saga

A multi-voiced medieval adventure follows knights and Mongols on parallel missions amid invasion, court intrigue, and war.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1211

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Midnight at the Electric

Jodi Lynn Anderson · 2017

Three women across 1919, 1934, and 2065 are linked by letters, loss, and a mysterious turtle.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1214

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The Killing Star

Charles Pellegrino, George Zebrowski · 1995

An unknown alien civilization launches a devastating first strike across the solar system, leaving scattered human survivors to endure.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1229

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Mad Sisters of Esi

Tashan Mehta · 2025

A restless sister leaves a world-whale behind, uncovering myths, memory, and a centuries-old mystery about two mad sisters.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1232

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The Shutouts

Gabrielle Korn · 2024

In a climate-ravaged future, separated women and families race across the U.S., uncovering the costs of survival and control.

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Distance: 0.1241

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Dragon Day

Bob Proehl · 2025

A journalist records survivor interviews as dragons erupt worldwide, chasing the truth, her missing son, and a way to stop them.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1246

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Léviathan, tome 1

Shiro Kuroi · 2022 · リバイアサン [Leviathan]

A school trip in space turns deadly after a shipwreck, and salvagers later uncover a journal that reveals why.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1250

Cover of The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

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.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1252

Cover of Playground by Richard Powers

Playground

Richard Powers · 2024

Four intertwined lives converge on a Pacific island as ocean wonder, AI ambition, and a vote on seasteading collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1253

Cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke · 2000 · Space Odyssey

An ancient alien monolith pulls humanity from prehistory into deep space, where evolution, AI, and destiny collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1256

Cover of The Separation by Christopher Priest

The Separation

Christopher Priest · 2003

Twin brothers on opposite sides of WWII become entangled in an alternate-history puzzle of war, memory, and identity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1261