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Characterization labels used: scientist, president, government officials, bureaucrats, military figures, prepper, married couple, protective parent, moral exemplar, self-sacrificing
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A father and his special daughter flee a plague-ravaged America while authorities hunt her as the possible cure.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: protective father · special child · immune child · wise-beyond-years child · morally conflicted parent · secretive parent · exhausted survivor · government officials · scientists/doctors · off-grid relative
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1909
When Earth faces mysterious alien omens and contradictory visitors, scientists and leaders race toward an apparently unavoidable apocalypse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · geologists · political leaders · president · family focus · ordinary people · competent adults
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2079
In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: father · pregnant wife · triplets · doctor · painter · cleaner · bureaucrat · volunteer suicide · anxious parent · cynical observer · officials · ordinary people
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2175
Ancient carnivorous spiders awaken worldwide, forcing scientists, officials, and survivors into a fast-moving apocalypse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist · FBI agent · president · military commander · prepper · survivalist · reporter · tour guide · billionaire · chief of staff · divorced · female lead · gay couple · interracial couple · competent women · large cast
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2190
In a future where teleportation is routine, a father tells his children how the invention works, and why it must never be done awake.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: inventor · scientist · family man · father · curious children · eccentric scientist · government figurehead · experimenter · ordinary family
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2237
A married journalist team tracks a mysterious ocean-born invasion that sinks ships and pushes humanity toward flood and collapse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: journalists · reporters · married couple · heroic couple · observer protagonists · resourceful wife · clever wife · capable woman · plainspoken narrator · scientist · boffin · visionary scientist · government officials · public skeptics · ordinary people under stress
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2273
Near-future Washington, D.C. faces climate disruption as scientists, staffers, and refugees try to act before disaster escalates.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · policy staffer · senator aide · lobbyist · bureaucrat · researcher · biotech scientist · stay-at-home dad · working mother · elevator encounter · rational skeptic · homeless scientist · political operative · Buddhist monks · refugees · ordinary people
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2287
In a state-run society, a boy’s mandatory intelligence test reveals a terrifying rule about intelligence.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: curious child · anxious parents · government officials · bright child · controlled family
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2306
In a near-future world of prophecy and political collapse, a Christian resistance fights to stop terror and control.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: military hero · patriot · Christian believer · lawyer · family man · defense expert · government target · resistance leader · protective spouse · commando team
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2323
An anthology of zombie stories set in Romero’s Night of the Living Dead world, revisiting the outbreak from many angles.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: survivors · scientist · medical examiner · sheriff · veteran · zookeeper · reporter · astronauts · psychic · white supremacist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2345
A Star Trek prequel follows Picard's desperate Romulan evacuation mission as politics, logistics, and catastrophe collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: admiral · captain · first officer · politician · scientist · engineer · refugee · secret police · idealist · pragmatic · moral center · disillusioned · charismatic
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2347
A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: survivors · investigators · scientists · families · children · outcasts · soldiers · judges · civil servants · creators · parents · caretakers · isolated protagonists
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2357
