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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Seeds of Time.
Characterization labels used: ordinary people, outsider protagonists, loners, marooned traveler, female agency, feminist-leaning women, misogynistic men, disabled protagonist, amputee protagonist, unreliable assumptions
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A career-spanning collection of 21 Philip K. Dick stories about reality, paranoia, power, and what makes us human.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary people · everyman protagonists · interchangeable protagonists · male protagonists · weak female characterization · paranoid characters · avatar-like characters · troubled minds · authority figures
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1725
A debut collection of nine strange, globe-spanning stories where ordinary lives meet fate, magic, and unsettling change.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: lonely protagonists · women protagonists · men adrift · disabled character · geneticists · schoolgirls · fisherman · poet · artist · immigrant · albino woman · septuplets · controlling father · ordinary people in extraordinary situations
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1761
A Wyndham short-story collection of time slips, alternate realities, satire, and a disturbing women-only future.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary person · female protagonist · male protagonist · elderly woman · historian · doctor · businessman · young woman · young man · starlet · widow · outsider · confused protagonist · self-questioning · social observer
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1792
Ten dark, formally inventive stories use tech, grief, and bizarre premises to expose how fragile people really are.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unreliable narrators · lonely protagonists · unlikeable characters · moral ambiguity · damaged characters · misfits · caretakers · patients · mothers · daughters · women under pressure · self-involved men · victims of patriarchy · victims of technology
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1801
In a China-dominated future, a young gay man with a hidden mixed heritage tries to build a life across shifting worlds.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: everyman protagonist · gay protagonist · closeted character · mixed-heritage character · marginalized characters · ordinary people · flawed characters · introverted · self-conscious · unexceptional protagonist · civilian life
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1848
To save her dying boyfriend, Polly time-travels into a divided future and must survive while searching for him.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: naive protagonist · timid protagonist · independent woman · indentured worker · refugee figure · company employee · loving partner · reluctant survivor · passive protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1860
A Korean short story collection fusing horror, fantasy, and sci-fi to expose patriarchy, greed, and other human cruelties.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: women protagonists · single mothers · unmarried women · androids · ghosts · landlords · greedy elites · patriarchal figures · lonely characters · moralized characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1887
A chronological, career-spanning collection of J.G. Ballard’s complete short fiction, tracing his shifting obsessions and style.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: solitary men · alienated protagonists · impenetrable men · mysterious women · obsessive characters · disturbed characters · clinical characterization · thin characterization
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1906
A complaint-reader in a constantly updating future searches for connection in a surreal, technocratic world that rewrites people and places.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · alienated worker · disoriented protagonist · passive protagonist · queer woman · lonely narrator · lost lover · mutmutable characters · bureaucratic employee
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1908
A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: marginalized protagonists · resistant characters · queer protagonists · trans characters · women protagonists · people of color protagonists · indigenous protagonists · idealistic characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1921
In Nazi-controlled 1953 Britain, a privileged woman who rewrites literature is sent to expose a rebellion in the city’s outlawed margins.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: privileged heroine · independent woman · brainwashed protagonist · bookish protagonist · curious protagonist · compliant outsider · resistance-minded women · elite female class · older women marginalized
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1926
A collection of strange, lyrical stories where grief, family, and ordinary life are interrupted by uncanny intrusions.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: Ordinary people · Women protagonists · Estranged daughters · Fathers · Mothers · Couples · Sisters · Lonely characters · Aging characters · Oddball characters · Emotionally guarded
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1959
