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Characterization labels used: recent graduate, working class, blogger, self-absorbed narrator, skeptical investigator, rational skeptic, conspiracy believer, curious outsider, ordinary protagonist, psychologically destabilized

Relationships labels used: group expedition, friend group, romantic partner, author-subject relationship, interview relationship, debate dynamic, rival interpretations, investigator and witness

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Are You Happy Now

Hanna Jameson · 2023

At a New York wedding, four young adults watch a strange catatonic crisis spread worldwide while their lives, loves, and doubts unravel.

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Characterization labels: flawed characters · young adults · millennials · self-destructive · unlikeable characters · ambitious journalist · struggling musician · professor · ballet student · self-doubting · cynical · emotionally guarded

Relationships labels: romantic relationships · friendship · workplace relationships · family pressure · queer relationships · dating · friendship-to-romance · intimacy · relationship drama

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Distance: 0.2232

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Constellation Games

Leonard Richardson · 2011

A burned-out game programmer blogs about alien video games, uncovering culture clash, secrets, and his own need to grow up.

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Characterization labels: self-deprecating protagonist · snarky protagonist · video game developer · game reviewer · frustrated programmer · adulting arc · emotionally immature · hapless narrator · alien anthropologist · alien reviewer · distinct character voices · misfit characters · witty characters · morally messy protagonist

Relationships labels: friend group · best friend · possible romance · love story · romantic tension · family relationship · human-alien friendship · cultural liaison · professional collaboration · interpersonal conflict · broken relationships · community bonds

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Distance: 0.2236

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

Walter Tevis · 1976

An alien comes to Earth to save his dying people, but human loneliness and self-destruction derail his mission.

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Characterization labels: alien protagonist · fragile protagonist · genius · outsider · introverted · lonely · alcoholic · depressed · sympathetic antihero · scientist · government agents

Relationships labels: friendship · mentor relationship · scientist relationship · human contact · alienation · isolation · dependence · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.2239

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Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer · 2002 · Neanderthal Parallax

A Neanderthal scientist crosses into modern Canada, sparking a cross-cultural collision with a parallel human world.

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Characterization labels: physicist protagonist · scientist protagonist · Neanderthal protagonist · female scientist · geneticist · anthropologist · accused partner · celebrity outsider · rational scientists

Relationships labels: partner relationship · man-mate · woman-mate · romantic tension · intercultural relationship · friendship · colleague relationship · trial of partner · power imbalance · sexual relationship

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Distance: 0.2248

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Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Characterization labels: persecuted protagonist · fragmented self · emotionally numbed · paranoid · enigmatic antagonist · mad scientist · bureaucrat · mentor figure · physically altered · alienated

Relationships labels: mentor relationship · romantic relationship · rivalry · pursuer and pursued · surveillance power dynamic · friendship · dependency

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The Drift

C.J. Tudor · 2023

Three stranded groups battle snow, secrets, and a deadly virus in a tense, twisty survival thriller.

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Characterization labels: former detective · medical student · student group · strangers · survivors · antiheroic · morally gray · secretive · unlikeable characters · resourceful · desperate · questionable motives

Relationships labels: group dynamics · mutual distrust · fragile bonds · power struggles · found group · stranger tension · working together · betrayal · secrets · dependency

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Distance: 0.2261

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The Whisperer in Darkness

H.P. Lovecraft · 2016 · Dark Adventure Radio Theatre

A skeptical professor follows letters and reports of strange Vermont sightings into a hidden alien mystery with cosmic stakes.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: academic protagonist · folklore scholar · skeptical narrator · isolated farmer · investigator · alien intelligences

Relationships labels: correspondence · mentor-like exchange · friendship · human-alien contact · mistrust · investigation partnership · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.2270

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Lucky Day

Chuck Tingle · 2025

A depressed bisexual statistician is pulled into a mystery linking a deadly global catastrophe to an impossibly lucky casino.

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Characterization labels: statistics professor · queer protagonist · bisexual protagonist · depressed protagonist · nihilistic protagonist · reluctant investigator · government agent · apathetic protagonist · logical protagonist · survivor

Relationships labels: fiance · mother-daughter conflict · queer relationship · professional partnership · investigator-partner dynamic · buddy-cop dynamic · romantic invalidation

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Distance: 0.2280

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Foundation and Earth

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Foundation (Publication Order)

A quest across the galaxy to uncover Earth’s hidden history forces one man to question humanity’s future.

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Characterization labels: searching protagonist · skeptical protagonist · historian companion · posthuman character · collective consciousness · stubborn protagonist · philosophical debater

Relationships labels: traveling companions · rival viewpoints · group conflict · individual vs collective

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Distance: 0.2293

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The Left Right Game

Jack Anderson · 2018

A journalist’s strange road-game investigation turns into a perilous expedition through a supernatural otherworld.

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Characterization labels: smart protagonist · skeptical protagonist · female protagonist · journalist protagonist · obsessive character · ferryman figure · expedition members · believable cast · complex characters · morally flawed characters

Relationships labels: roommates · expedition group · family bond · siblings · leader-follower dynamic · friendship bond · teamwork · betrayal · dependence

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The 10th Cycle

J.C. Ryan · 2014 · Rossler Foundation

A journalist and researcher uncover a coded secret in the Great Pyramid, drawing governments and a shadowy society into conflict.

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Characterization labels: journalist protagonist · researcher protagonist · academic expert · computer expert · mathematician · linguist · genius team · compelling characters · flat characters · underdeveloped characters · overly perfect characters · naive hero · strong-willed heroine · conspiracy believer

Relationships labels: romance subplot · love story · partners in investigation · friends and colleagues · family protection · team collaboration · power struggle · trust issues · secret society opposition

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The Fossil

Joshua T. Calvert · 2021 · Secrets of Mars

In 2042, investigators chase a vanished archaeologist’s secret across Antarctica and Mars, uncovering a buried truth.

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Characterization labels: investigators · astronaut · archaeologist · scientist · agent duo · memory loss · obsessive · competent · stereotyped · bickering partners · antiheroic

Relationships labels: partner dynamics · investigator partnership · marriage · widowhood · romantic tension · rivalry · institutional conflict · team investigation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2303

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