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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection.

Plot structure labels used: fish out of water, episodic chapters, vignette structure, running gags, slow build to climax, action-heavy finale, interwoven office and crisis scenes

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

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Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers · 2018 · Wayfarers

In a post-Earth fleet society, five lives collide as a disaster forces humans to rethink home, purpose, and belonging.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1752

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休日のわるものさん 2

Yuu Morikawa, 森川 侑 · 2019 · 休日のわるものさん [Kyūjitsu no Warumono-san]

An alien villain spends his day off chasing pandas, tiny treats, and unexpected kindnesses on Earth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1780

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Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Hitoshi Ashinano, 芦奈野 ひとし · 2022 · ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 新装版 [Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Shinsouban)]

An android cafe owner waits for her absent owner in a gently decaying future Japan, savoring life as the world winds down.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1796

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Kitty Cat Kill Sat: A Feline Space Adventure

Argus . · 2023

An immortal cat runs a battered space station, fighting crises, loneliness, and Earth’s collapse from orbit.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1799

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The Morning Star

Karl Ove Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgaard · 2021 · Morgenstjernen

A new star appears over Norway, and nine lives slowly slide from ordinary routines into eerie, uncertain change.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1806

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The Dreamers

Karen Thompson Walker · 2019

A sleeping sickness strikes a California college town, and the wakeful struggle to protect each other as dreams deepen.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1827

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Mr. Villain's Day Off 01

Yuu Morikawa · 2023 · 休日のわるものさん [Kyūjitsu no Warumono-san]

An alien supervillain spends his rare days off chasing pandas, snacks, and quiet joys while dodging a persistent hero.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1839

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To Marry Medusa

Theodore Sturgeon · 1999

An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1847

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The Expanded Earth

Mikey Please · 2025

When all humanity shrinks to handspan size overnight, survivors must navigate a brutal, altered world and untangle why it happened.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1852

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Zero Day

Ezekiel Boone · 2018 · The Hatching

With the world collapsing under a spider apocalypse, leaders and survivors race to stop the queens before humanity falls.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1877

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Doctor Who: After Life

Al Ewing, Rob Williams · 2015 · Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor (Titan Comics) series

The Eleventh Doctor recruits a grieving library assistant and races through linked, weirdly funny time-travel adventures.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1884

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New Avengers, Vol. 2: Infinity

Jonathan Hickman · 2014 · New Avengers (2013) (Collected Editions)

The Illuminati juggle multiverse collapse, royal war, and Thanos’ invasion as secrets and alliances crack.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1887

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The Eternals Omnibus

Jack Kirby · 2006 · Eternals (1976)

Immortal beings, hidden mutants, and space gods collide as Earth’s secret mythology is revealed in cosmic superhero form.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1894

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This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Keith Taylor · 2017

After a global zombie pandemic, a writer gathers oral histories from survivors around the world to piece together humanity’s collapse.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1894

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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: 0.1908

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The High Country

John Jackson Miller · 2023 · Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

A Star Trek rescue mission strands Pike's crew on a tech-hostile frontier world where survival, ethics, and rebellion collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1913

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Human Omega: Married to the Barbarian Prince

Eileen Glass · 2024 · Pykh

An omega and his two mates try to build a family and place in alien society while politics and old wars still linger.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1916

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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.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1919

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Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, Vol. 1

Kelly Sue DeConnick, Kit Cox, Marc Deschamps, Sara Woolley, Vita Ayala, Bassey Nyambi, Alobi, Nyambi Nyambi, Jon Tsuei, Matt Fraction, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Andrew Aydin, Conley Lyons, Che Grayson, Danielle Henderson, Jordan Clark, Alissa M. Sallah · 2017 · Bitch Planet (Collected Editions)

A 15-story anthology expands a dystopian, patriarchal comics world through sharp, short bursts of feminist satire.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1924

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Superman: Year One

Frank Miller, John Romita Jr. · 2019 · Superman: Year One

A reimagined Superman origin follows Clark from Krypton to Kansas, the Navy, Atlantis, and Metropolis.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1924

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Steadfast

Jack Campbell · 2014 · The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier

Admiral Geary faces quarantine, political intrigue, and a hidden threat while escorting aliens and chasing missing crew.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1929

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The Master of Mankind

Aaron Dembski-Bowden · 2016 · The Horus Heresy

As the Webway war grinds beneath Terra, the Emperor’s hidden plan and the cost of saving humanity are laid bare.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1934

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Engaging the Enemy

Elizabeth Moon · 2006 · Vatta's War

A young merchant-captain races to rebuild her family’s power, unite privateers, and outmaneuver pirates in deep space.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1935

Cover of Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1983 · Foundation (Chronological Order)

A far-future saga traces the rise, fall, and attempted rebirth of galactic civilization through science, strategy, and psychohistory.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1935

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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.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1946

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Love Everlasting, Volume 1

Tom King · 2023 · Love Everlasting

A woman trapped in repeating romance-comic lives must escape the cycle and uncover who keeps resetting her story.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1946

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They: A Sequence of Unease

Kay Dick · 1977

In a hazy British dystopia, an unnamed narrator watches artists and solitary people survive escalating attacks on creativity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1950

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Martians, Go Home

Fredric Brown · 1976

A stranded science-fiction writer faces a worldwide Martian nuisance that exposes secrets, wrecks routines, and upends reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1952

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Douglas Adams · 1989 · The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

A demolished Earthman is swept into a wildly absurd galaxy-spanning quest filled with satire, chaos, and wry humor.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1955

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Saha

Cho Nam-Joo · 2022

In a corporate-run city-state, outcasts in a neglected housing complex live under class control as a disappearance draws one sister searching for answers.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1956