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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Terminal Man.
Characterization labels used: psychiatrist, surgeon, scientist, doctor, patient as test subject, violent protagonist, psychotic protagonist, paranoid protagonist, brilliant but unstable, arrogant experts, female doctor, beleaguered psychiatrist, paper-thin characters, limited character development
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A fragmented, clinical collage of sex, violence, celebrity, and media spectacle in a collapsing modern world.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: fragmented protagonist · psychiatrist · doctor · mentally ill narrator · unstable identity · passive male protagonist · obsessive protagonist · clinical detachment · empty-jacket character · psychotic character · dissociated self
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1311
A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1346
An annotated fictional memoir follows a traumatized researcher in an alternate 20th century as memory becomes a tool of control.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: traumatized protagonist · researcher · psychologist · psychiatrist · scientist · unreliable narrator · morally ambiguous · detached protagonist · female-led cast · flawed protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1417
A woman is sent to a moon asylum for melancholy, where spider-silk medicine and buried secrets warp mind and body.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: melancholy protagonist · passive heroine · female lead · mad scientist · sadistic doctor · abusive orderly · condescending husband · patient prisoner · scientific authority figure · brain surgeon · cultic scholars · victimized woman
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1428
A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · older protagonist · curious investigator · medical expert · philosophical thinker · obsessive seeker · scientist-physician · mysterious patient · driven researcher · intellectual protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1474
A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · physician · surgeon · organ transplant specialist · political leader · hypochondriac leader · addicted spouse · morally conflicted characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1491
A troubled medical student joins a secretive nanotech institute and uncovers dangerous experiments hidden behind corporate secrecy.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: medical student · medical researcher · socially awkward protagonist · unlikable protagonist · brilliant heroine · determined investigator · lecherous boss · corrupt executive · gay supporting doctor · estranged father · crime-boss father · obsessive antagonist · male gaze emphasis
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1495
A doctor traces a strange blue-urine case to a secret resort and a corporation using drugs to bend reality.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · medical resident · curious investigator · reluctant hero · thin characters · poor character development · male hero · villainous corporation · evil masterminds · beautiful women · famous actress · biker patient · young doctor
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1516
An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · disfigured protagonist · alcoholic protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obsessed philosopher · surly character · practical character · AI character · shadowy institute · traumatized survivor
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1518
A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: hapless protagonist · confused protagonist · middle-aged man · patient protagonist · bureaucratic functionaries · doctors · medical punk · flat characters · delirious protagonist · imaginative protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1520
A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: woman protagonist · doctor · memory loss · disturbed protagonist · ambiguous motives · hidden identity · potentially unreliable narrator · young girl
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1545
A futuristic psychotherapist enters patients’ dreams to heal them, then risks everything when a blind aspiring shaper becomes his patient.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: psychologist protagonist · shaper · blind woman · aspiring therapist · gifted specialist · hubristic protagonist · precocious child · talking dog · mentor figure · suicidal figure · woman psychiatrist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1554
