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Samuel R. Delany

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Characterization labels used: unlikable protagonist, misogynist protagonist, self-centered, self-delusional, psychologically dense, socially maladjusted, outsider, immigrant, sex worker, metalogician, artist

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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin · 2024

A rideshare driver takes a lucrative, off-the-grid cross-country job guarding a mysterious black box, and the internet spirals.

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Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · anxious protagonist · misogynistic protagonist · terminally online characters · eccentric misfits · lonely losers · flawed characters · wisecracking characters · charismatic woman · retired investigator

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Distance: 0.1357

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Behold the Man

Michael Moorcock · 1969 · Karl Glogauer

A troubled man time-travels to biblical Palestine and becomes entangled in the origins of Christianity.

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Characterization labels: troubled protagonist · neurotic protagonist · misfit · outcast · unlikable protagonist · messiah complex · self-loathing · intellectual protagonist · psychologically damaged · antihero

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Distance: 0.1393

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Everything You Ever Wanted

Luiza Sauma · 2019

A depressed London worker joins a one-way reality show to a new planet, hoping escape will solve everything.

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Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · young woman · millennial · alienated worker · unlikable protagonist · morally questionable protagonist · passive protagonist · flawed protagonist · lonely protagonist · self-destructive · chronically unhappy

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Distance: 0.1402

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Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang · 2025

A jealous art student uses mind-linking technology to stay close to her gifted friend in a near-future class-divided world.

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Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · obsessive narrator · tortured artist · art prodigy · ambitious striver · morally ambiguous · ruthless · insecure · envious · codependent · compelling narrator

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Distance: 0.1476

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The Teleportation Accident

Ned Beauman · 2012

A self-absorbed Berlin set designer chases sex, art, and a teleportation mystery across 1930s Europe and America.

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Characterization labels: self-absorbed protagonist · unlikable protagonist · antihero · hedonist · misogynist · obsessive · dissatisfied young man · eccentric cast · drunken characters · deplorable characters · comic grotesques · socially oblivious

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Distance: 0.1502

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Sky Daddy

Kate Folk · 2025

A lonely content moderator secretly pursues an all-consuming, plane-centered desire that threatens her carefully normal life.

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Characterization labels: unhinged heroine · awkward protagonist · socially alienated · self-aware protagonist · oddball heroine · lonely woman · hard-to-root-for protagonist · endearing outsider · unreliable social fit

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Distance: 0.1526

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The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi · 2023

A London-based Pakistani translator joins a secret language school promising fluency in 10 days—and discovers a sinister cost.

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Characterization labels: adrift protagonist · privileged protagonist · unlikable protagonist · flawed protagonist · translator protagonist · self-absorbed protagonist · frustrated careerist · obsessive narrator · female narrator · complex character

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Distance: 0.1541

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Familiar Face

Michael DeForge · 2020

A complaint-reader in a constantly updating future searches for connection in a surreal, technocratic world that rewrites people and places.

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Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · alienated worker · disoriented protagonist · passive protagonist · queer woman · lonely narrator · lost lover · mutmutable characters · bureaucratic employee

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Distance: 0.1552

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Dying Inside

Robert Silverberg · 1980

A telepath in middle age watches his mind-reading power fade, forcing a reckoning with loneliness, guilt, and selfhood.

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Characterization labels: unlikeable protagonist · lonely protagonist · self-loathing · misanthropic · bitter · depressive · intellectual · moral conflict · voyeuristic · sexually driven · aged protagonist · socially isolated · gifted outsider · failed adult · jerk protagonist · self-destructive · unfulfilled · egocentric

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Amatka

Karin Tidbeck · 2012

A woman sent to a remote colony finds a world where naming objects keeps reality from dissolving—and obedience is everything.

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Characterization labels: female protagonist · alienated protagonist · introverted protagonist · lonely protagonist · bystander protagonist · bureaucrat · housemates · poet figure · authoritarian citizens · flat characters (mixed)

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Distance: 0.1576

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Sweet Harmony

Claire North · 2020

In a near future of subscription-based body upgrades, one woman’s quest for perfection spirals into debt and collapse.

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Characterization labels: relatable protagonist · unsympathetic protagonist · vain protagonist · self-destructive · addicted · ambitious · broken character · morally compromised · unlikable characters · believable characters

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Distance: 0.1586

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Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle · 2014

A reclusive game designer narrates his life backward, as a mailed fantasy game collides with reality and his hidden past.

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Characterization labels: outcast · recluse · disabled protagonist · sympathetic narrator · unreliable self-knowledge · alienated youth · troubled protagonist · creative loner · social misfit · sympathetic outsider

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Distance: 0.1589

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