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Jason M. Hough, K.C. Alexander

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Characterization labels used: security director, interim leadership, political leader, engineer, bureaucrat, command under pressure, unlikeable characters

Relationships labels used: power struggle, leadership conflict, factional conflict, group dysfunction, interpersonal tension, mutiny, mutual distrust, coalition strain

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The Walking Dead, Vol. 25: No Turning Back

Robert Kirkman · 2016 · The Walking Dead

After a brutal attack, Rick must hold his people together, resist revenge, and rethink leadership with help from an unlikely enemy.

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Characterization labels: leader under pressure · questioned leadership · reluctant strategist · manipulative adviser · dark advisor · former enemy · grief-stricken survivors · angry crowd · secondary character development · morally complex

Relationships labels: rivalry · temporary alliance · mentorship · strained leadership · community conflict · romantic tension · parent-child conflict · friendship under strain · old enemy relationship · power dynamics

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Distance: 0.1501

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The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel

Jeffrey Lewis · 2018

A faux commission report traces how a chain of misread signals could trigger a devastating nuclear war.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: political leaders · military leaders · government officials · bureaucrats · survivors · experts · decision-makers under pressure · erratic leader · conscientious public servants · cautious defense official

Relationships labels: superpower rivalry · allied coordination · US-South Korea relations · North Korea-South Korea tensions · leader-adviser tension · bureaucratic conflict · command and control · international dependency · misread intentions

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Distance: 0.1839

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Lies

Michael Grant · 2010 · Gone

Trapped teens face lies, rising dead, faction war, and a darker mystery inside the sealed-off FAYZ.

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Characterization labels: reluctant leader · morally conflicted · power-hungry · self-righteous · practical survivor · dark turn · mentally strained · traumatized youth · new character introductions

Relationships labels: friendship · romantic tension · rival factions · power struggle · family bonds · betrayal · leader-council tension · community conflict

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Distance: 0.1854

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The Hive

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 2019 · The Second Formic War

In a solar-system war against adapting aliens, rival human powers must unite before the next assault arrives.

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Characterization labels: military leaders · corrupt leadership · careerist officers · bureaucrats · strategists · young protagonists · resourceful characters · competent outsider

Relationships labels: coalition · rival factions · human-alien conflict · family · mentor-student · power struggle · political rivalry · team dynamics · parent-child

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Distance: 0.1872

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Jodi Taylor · 2018 · The Chronicles of St Mary's

A St. Mary’s Christmas jump goes wildly off-script when the crew ends up helping witness humanity’s first Mars landing.

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Characterization labels: disaster magnets · snarky lead · hapless crew · bureaucratic antagonist · competent but chaotic · peripheral characters · familiar ensemble · new characters · future director · time police officials

Relationships labels: uneasy alliance · authority conflict · team dynamics · institutional rivalry · mentor connection · superior-subordinate conflict · group banter · working relationship

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Distance: 0.1940

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Jem

Frederik Pohl · 2004

When Earth’s rival blocs race to colonize a habitable planet, their old conflicts endanger both settlers and natives.

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Characterization labels: morally compromised · unlikable characters · shallow caricatures · political actors · military figures · scientist protagonist · linguist character · strong women · cynical character · sympathetic alien characters · ambitious characters · self-interested

Relationships labels: faction rivalry · colonizer vs native · intergroup conflict · power struggle · alliances · betrayal · cooperation under pressure · human-alien conflict · community breakdown

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Distance: 0.1941

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The Butcher of Anderson Station

James S.A. Corey · 2011 · The Expanse

A short Expanse prequel reveals how Fred Johnson earned the name “The Butcher of Anderson Station.”

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Characterization labels: conflicted protagonist · war veteran · military officer · colonel · leader · disgraced officer · rational · steadfast · morally burdened · enigmatic · humanized

Relationships labels: interrogation · kidnapping · defection · loyalty conflict · betrayal · power imbalance · friendship · institutional conflict · factional alignment

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Distance: 0.1954

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Authority

Jeff Vandermeer · 2014 · Southern Reach

A new director investigates a secret agency and the mysteries of Area X, only to find control slipping away.

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Characterization labels: new director · bureaucrat · spy · intelligence officer · paranoid protagonist · disoriented protagonist · moral ambiguity · desperate team · antagonistic staff

Relationships labels: mother-son relationship · office conflict · power struggle · professional hostility · interrogation dynamic · family history · loyalty conflict

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Distance: 0.1960

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Five Years After

William R. Forstchen · 2023 · After

Five years after an EMP collapse, a reluctant leader is pulled into a hidden power struggle that could doom what remains.

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Characterization labels: reluctant leader · history professor · college president · community leader · vice president · military officer · general · CIA operative · president · mentor figure · foil character · cartoonish villains · stoic soldiers · corrupt elites

Relationships labels: family protection · community loyalty · mentor-protege · power struggle · political rivalry · marriage strain · leadership succession · alliance under pressure · trust and suspicion · husband-wife conflict

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Distance: 0.1981

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Deep Storm

Lincoln Child · 2007 · Jeremy Logan

A naval doctor investigates a mysterious illness at a secret deep-sea facility and uncovers a far stranger hidden truth.

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Characterization labels: naval doctor · medical investigator · scientist · military commander · secretive authority · stubborn protagonist · competent hero · flat characterization · unconvincing characters · overbearing commander

Relationships labels: military scientists · power struggle · authority conflict · cover-up dynamics · hostile workplace · mentor rivalry · institutional control · professional isolation

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Distance: 0.1989

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Sphere

Michael Crichton · 1997

A Navy-led deep-sea science team investigates a mysterious shipwreck and a strange sphere that warps reality.

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Characterization labels: psychologist protagonist · scientist team · military commander · math expert · biologist · astrophysicist · group dynamics · cynical scientist · analytical mind · emotion under pressure · flat characters · cookie-cutter personalities · stereotyped characters · frustrating scientists

Relationships labels: team conflict · professional rivalry · interpersonal tension · group dynamics · power struggle · authority conflict · trust breakdown · dependency under pressure · collegial friction

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Distance: 0.1999

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Schismatrix Plus

Bruce Sterling · 1996

A decades-spanning posthuman saga follows an exiled diplomat through a fractured solar system of warring human factions.

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Characterization labels: aristocrat · diplomat · exile · outlaw · con artist · opportunist · political exile · ambitious protagonist · frenemy rivalry · posthuman characters

Relationships labels: friend betrayal · rivalry · frenemy relationship · political alliance · factional conflict · power struggle · covert war · community fragmentation

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Distance: 0.2002

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