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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Crystal World.
Characterization labels used: physician protagonist, leprosy specialist, listless protagonist, estranged protagonist, obsessive protagonist, stock characters, ambiguous motives, journalist character, priest character, soldier character, antagonistic authorities, lepers
Focused on “thin characterization” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1646
An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · disfigured protagonist · alcoholic protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obsessed philosopher · surly character · practical character · AI character · shadowy institute · traumatized survivor
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1789
A space-rescue doctor investigates a bizarre deep-space accident that threatens an interspecies hospital and its AIs.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · rescue specialist · trauma doctor · chronic pain · disabled protagonist · queer protagonist · introspective protagonist · dedicated professional · competent caregiver · emotionally guarded
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1809
A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · physician · surgeon · organ transplant specialist · political leader · hypochondriac leader · addicted spouse · morally conflicted characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1843
A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1851
An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · blind protagonist · amnesiac protagonist · confused protagonist · caretaker figure · mysterious doctor · doctor-therapist · possibly unreliable caregiver · morally ambiguous character · recovering patient
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1853
A fragmented, clinical collage of sex, violence, celebrity, and media spectacle in a collapsing modern world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: fragmented protagonist · psychiatrist · doctor · mentally ill narrator · unstable identity · passive male protagonist · obsessive protagonist · clinical detachment · empty-jacket character · psychotic character · dissociated self
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1858
A cursed doctor is chased across empires by a dead boy’s shadow, gaining a dangerous gift for reading truths.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: cowardly protagonist · morally compromised protagonist · unlikable protagonist · spy · doctor · truth-speaker · haunted figure · observer protagonist · flawed hero · emotionally detached protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1887
A time-bending historical mystery follows a Saudi surgeon into Mongol-era Bukhara, where truth, memory, and power collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · surgeon protagonist · historian-seeking protagonist · mystery guide · wise mentor · priest figure · khan figure · princess figure · ambiguous protagonist · intellectual protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1890
A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · soldier protagonist · military doctor · AI entity · one-dimensional characters · caricatures · naive protagonist · impulsive protagonist · zealot antagonist · morally gray characters · caricatured characters · emotionally detached characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1890
In a near-future America, a teacher with a brain implant is swept into a civil-rights crisis over human enhancement.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: teacher protagonist · epileptic protagonist · reluctant hero · bland protagonist · whiny protagonist · naive protagonist · morally conflicted · military veteran · charismatic politician · love interest · secondary cast · specialist scientist · antihero leader · child character · ordinary person · secretly enhanced
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1895
A New York medical examiner uncovers a deadly bioterror plot involving anthrax, extremists, and a vengeful immigrant.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: forensic pathologists · medical examiners · doctor protagonist · antihero villain · disgruntled immigrant · white supremacist antagonists · neo-Nazi antagonists · far-right militants · sarcastic protagonist · workaholic · villain depth
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1923
