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Nisi Shawl

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These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for 2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be.

Plot structure labels used: near-future setup, multi-threaded narrative, intercut documents, vignette structure, ambiguous ending, abrupt ending, underexplained worldbuilding, compressed scope

Focused on “time jumps” where exact label matches exist.

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The Museum of Human History

Rebekah Bergman · 2023

A comatose girl who never ages draws scientists, family, and seekers into an interwoven mystery about time, memory, and youth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1223

Cover of Who Wants to Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose

Who Wants to Live Forever

Hanna Thomas Uose · 2025

When a life-extending drug splits a married couple, their choices ripple through decades, love, and society.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1226

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1264

Cover of Superman – Action Comics, Volume 3: At the End of Days by Grant Morrison

Superman – Action Comics, Volume 3: At the End of Days

Grant Morrison · 2013 · Action Comics (2011)

Superman faces a reality-bending threat that attacks across his whole life, forcing a nonlinear, multiverse-spanning showdown.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1279

Cover of How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey

How It Unfolds

James S.A. Corey · 2023 · The Far Reaches

A cloned astronaut on an interstellar colonization mission faces repeated second chances—and one unresolved past.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1299

Cover of Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo

Pedro the Vast

Simón López Trujillo · 2026

A farm worker survives a deadly fungal outbreak and becomes the center of science, faith, and family crisis in rural Chile.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1108

Cover of Caine's Law by Matthew Woodring Stover

Caine's Law

Matthew Woodring Stover · 2012 · The Acts of Caine

A battered assassin is dragged into a reality-bending, god-warped final gamble that could remake everything.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1144

Cover of Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager

Amygdalatropolis

B.R. Yeager · 2017

A reclusive teen disappears into anonymous internet boards, where digital immersion erodes identity, sanity, and morality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1160

Cover of The End and the Death: Volume I by Dan Abnett

The End and the Death: Volume I

Dan Abnett · 2023 · The Siege of Terra

On Terra’s final day, collapsing war, warp distortions, and rival champions converge in the opening move of the Heresy’s end.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1180

Cover of The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

The Vanished Birds

Simon Jimenez · 2020

A lonely space captain, a mute boy, and a visionary scientist become entangled in a far-future struggle over time, family, and power.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1181