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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The White Plague.

Characterization labels used: mad scientist, molecular biologist, terrorist, priest, scientists, politicians, revolutionaries, clergy, psychological breakdown, grief-driven, vengeful, unlikable cast, flat characters, broadly sketched characters

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Cover of Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus by Mira Grant

Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

Mira Grant · 2015 · Newsflesh

A post-apocalyptic virologist runs a secret lab and faces an unexpected intruder, spies, and dangerous secrets.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1899

Cover of Sphere by Michael Crichton

Sphere

Michael Crichton · 1997

A Navy-led deep-sea science team investigates a mysterious shipwreck and a strange sphere that warps reality.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1948

Cover of The Time Machine / The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 2005

Two classic Wells novellas: one sends a scientist into a distant human future; the other unleashes a dangerous invisibility experiment.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1975

Cover of Ancestor by Scott Sigler

Ancestor

Scott Sigler · 2010

A biotech experiment to solve organ shortages unleashes deadly genetic predators on an isolated island.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2000

Cover of The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2095

Cover of Blood Music by Greg Bear

Blood Music

Greg Bear · 1985

A biotech researcher’s forbidden experiment creates sentient cells that transform his body and then humanity.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2096

Cover of Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr.

Frozen Hell

John W. Campbell Jr. · 2019

A rediscovered expanded draft of a classic Antarctic sci-fi horror tale pits scientists against a shape-shifting alien.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2099

Cover of The Expanded Earth by Mikey Please

The Expanded Earth

Mikey Please · 2025

When all humanity shrinks to handspan size overnight, survivors must navigate a brutal, altered world and untangle why it happened.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2108

Cover of Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin

Ball Lightning

Liu Cixin · 2018

A scientist haunted by childhood tragedy pursues the mystery of ball lightning, pulling him into military research and radical physics.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2112

Cover of The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule by Jonathan Hickman

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule

Jonathan Hickman · 2013 · The Manhattan Projects

Mad scientists and secret powers clash in an alternate Cold War of conspiracies, violence, and world-scale ambition.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2135

Cover of Mutation by Robin Cook

Mutation

Robin Cook · 1998

A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2165