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Gerald M. Kilby

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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Colony Two Mars.

Characterization labels used: sole survivor, female protagonist, strong female protagonist, biologist, astronaut, robot sidekick, AI character, clones, geneticists, evil scientist, autocrat, survivor, human antagonist, moral center

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

Cover of Exodus by Paul Antony Jones

Exodus

Paul Antony Jones · 2013 · Extinction Point

A reporter and her dog trek through a collapsing alien-torn North America toward a rumored refuge in Alaska.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1211

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Dark Horse

Michelle Diener · 2022 · Class 5

An abducted human teams with a sentient ship AI and an alien captain amid interstellar politics and a dangerous secret.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1425

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The Whims of Gods

Mell R. Bright · 2024 · Monstrous Whims

A survival-hardened wanderer boards a mutant’s monster-haunted machine and finds danger, desire, and a possible home.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1547

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The Solar War

A.G. Riddle · 2019 · The Long Winter

Earth’s survivors face returning alien forces, internal conflict, and a desperate choice that could save or doom humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1551

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Trinity Sight

Jennifer Givhan · 2019

A pregnant anthropologist wakes into an empty, myth-haunted New Mexico and must survive while rethinking science, faith, and ancestry.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1559

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Zom-B Gladiator

Darren Shan · 2014 · Zom-B

Captured in zombie-ravaged London, B is forced into brutal gladiator fights against the undead.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1609

Cover of Chimera by Mira Grant

Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1616

Cover of Sanctuary by Matthew Mather

Sanctuary

Matthew Mather · 2016 · Nomad

After an Earth-shattering catastrophe, a survivor races through a frozen world to protect dangerous data and reach sanctuary.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1618

Cover of A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016 · Wayfarers

An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: AI protagonist · clone protagonist · engineer · outcast · misfit · survivor · child slave · self-questioning · empathetic · independent

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1623

Cover of Space Station Down by Ben Bova

Space Station Down

Ben Bova, Doug Beason · 2020

A lone astronaut must outwit terrorists who seize the ISS and threaten to turn it into a weapon against Earth.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1629

Cover of Alien: Isolation by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Alien: Isolation

Keith R.A. DeCandido · 2019 · Alien: Isolation

Amanda Ripley follows a lead on her missing mother to a ruined space station where an alien hunt becomes a fight to survive.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1641