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Similar in plot structure

These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Red Mars.

Plot structure labels used: multi-POV, multiple timelines, chronological sections, in medias res opening, flashback structure, episodic sections, decades-spanning, future history, slow build, event-driven chapters

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

Cover of Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

Acceptance

Jeff Vandermeer · 2014 · Southern Reach

A final expedition into Area X unspools hidden origins, shifting identities, and the cost of confronting the unknowable.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0879

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Walk the Vanished Earth

Erin Swan · 2022

Across seven generations, one family is carried from Kansas prairies to flooded cities and Mars as climate collapse reshapes humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1013

Cover of The Companions by Katie M. Flynn

The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1015

Cover of Last Exit by Max Gladstone

Last Exit

Max Gladstone · 2022

A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1016

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Praetorian of Dorn

John French · 2017 · The Horus Heresy

A fortress-minded loyalist and a secretive infiltrator clash as the Solar System’s first assault of the war unfolds.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1018

Cover of The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel  Gonzales

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: 0.1022

Cover of Baby X by Kira Peikoff

Baby X

Kira Peikoff · 2024

In a near-future DNA marketplace, a biosecurity guard races to protect a star’s genetic identity as a shocking claim upends everything.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1074

Cover of The Future by Naomi Alderman

The Future

Naomi Alderman · 2023

In a near-future collapse, survivalists and insiders race tech billionaires and hidden systems to change who gets through the end.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1075

Cover of Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

Yours for the Taking

Gabrielle Korn · 2023

In 2050, three women become entangled in a climate-proof city where a billionaire’s feminist utopia hides darker control.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1077

Cover of Traveler by Arwen Elys Dayton

Traveler

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2016 · Seeker

A teen Seeker uncovers her order’s dark past while hunted by enemies, torn by love, and racing a hidden conspiracy.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1087

Cover of Happy Doomsday by David Sosnowski

Happy Doomsday

David Sosnowski · 2018

Three troubled teens survive a mysterious human-only apocalypse and must learn how to live, cope, and rebuild.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1089

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Vulkan Lives

Nick Kyme · 2013 · The Horus Heresy

A captured primarch endures brutal torment while scattered survivors race through the Horus Heresy’s aftermath.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1091

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Iron Council

China Miéville · 2004 · New Crobuzon

In a war-torn fantasy city, rebels and fugitives chase a legendary runaway train as revolution brews on every front.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1096

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The Waiting Rooms

Eve Smith · 2020

In a near-future antibiotic crisis, a nurse’s search for her birth mother unearths family secrets and deadly truths.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1098

Cover of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020

A near-future climate crisis novel follows a new UN body and a heatwave survivor as the world scrambles for solutions.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1102

Cover of Floating Hotel by Grace  Curtis

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: 0.1107

Cover of Who Wants to Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose

Who Wants to Live Forever

Hanna Thomas Uose · 2025

When a life-extending drug splits a married couple, their choices ripple through decades, love, and society.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1111

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He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät

Jussi Valtonen · 2014

A cross-continental family saga about science, activism, and technology tests what people think they owe each other.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1112

Cover of The Ancients by John Larison

The Ancients

John Larison · 2024

In a climate-ravaged far future, three entwined journeys chase survival, reunion, and power as civilization frays.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1114

Cover of Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

Robogenesis

Daniel H. Wilson · 2014 · Robopocalypse

After a robot war, surviving humans and machines face a darker conflict as rival AIs reshape what life can be.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1124

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Cenital

Emilio Bueso · 2012

A fortified eco-village braces for collapse after peak oil, as a prophetic leader and his followers confront a bleak new world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1130

Cover of The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor · 2020 · Welcome to Night Vale

A faceless houseghost’s centuries-spanning origin, revenge, and haunting of a modern-day man finally collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1133

Cover of Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert

Paul of Dune

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson · 2008 · Heroes of Dune

A dual-timeline Dune interquel tracks Paul’s rise and rule while revisiting the childhood events that shaped him.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1134

Cover of The Found Object Society by Michelle Maryk

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: 0.1139

Cover of Delio, Phase One by R.R. Haywood

Delio, Phase One

R.R. Haywood · 2023 · The Hive

A frozen-world crisis and a self-aware AI force scattered survivors in London, New York, and beyond to fight for answers.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1143

Cover of Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

Spoonbenders

Daryl Gregory · 2017

A disgraced psychic family reunites under pressure from the CIA, the mob, and a new awakening talent.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1147

Cover of The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

The Future of Another Timeline

Annalee Newitz · 2019

Two women across decades join a covert time-war over history, feminism, and who gets to shape the future.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1151

Cover of On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily  Jane

On Earth as It Is on Television

Emily Jane · 2023

When ships hover over Earth and vanish, three lives, a family, and a cat-filled mystery are pulled into chaos.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1156

Cover of The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell

The Vanished Queen

Lisbeth Campbell · 2020

A young rebel, a trapped prince, and a vanished queen’s journals converge in a fight to topple a tyrant.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1161

Cover of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge by Ethan Sacks

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

Ethan Sacks · 2019 · Star Wars: Canon Miniseries

A Batuu-bound Star Wars heist comic threads together relic hunts, flashbacks, and surprise cameos around Black Spire Outpost.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1162

Cover of The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson

The Clockwork Dynasty

Daniel H. Wilson · 2017 · Clockwork Dynasty

A young researcher uncovers a hidden race of clockwork beings and gets pulled into their centuries-old war.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1175