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Characterization labels used: workaholic, ambitious scientist, morally gray protagonist, unlikable protagonist, insufferable protagonist, lonely protagonist, obsessive protagonist, butch lesbian, middle-aged lesbian, research scientist, academic researcher

Relationships labels used: marriage breakdown, wife relationship, toxic relationship, one-sided attachment, emotional neglect, professional alienation, pack bond

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The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey · 2021

A cloning scientist finds her husband has replaced her with a better, obedient copy—then the dead body forces both wives to cooperate.

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Characterization labels: brilliant scientist · workaholic · cold protagonist · unlikable protagonist · morally compromised · angry protagonist · self-absorbed · controlling · docile clone · obedient clone · submissive wife · abusive father · career-driven woman · ethically ruthless · emotionally repressed · traumatized protagonist · morally gray characters

Relationships labels: marital breakdown · infidelity · cheating spouse · clone rivalry · forced alliance · parent-child abuse · spousal control · professional rivalry · betrayal · dependency

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Distance: 0.1324

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Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Characterization labels: academic protagonist · scholar protagonist · unlikable protagonist · inept hero · savant character · psychiatric patient · scientist character · brutish savant · bookish intellectual · self-pitying narrator · complex protagonist

Relationships labels: marriage breakdown · former lover · family estrangement · doctor-patient relationship · friendship · romantic tension · parent-child estrangement

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1332

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Ruins

Lily Brooks-Dalton · 2026

A future archaeologist’s bid to prove a lost civilization exists collides with a wrecked marriage and a world remade by climate collapse.

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Characterization labels: ambitious protagonist · obsessive protagonist · unlikable protagonist · flawed protagonist · antihero · unreliable narrator · morally gray protagonist · self-centered protagonist · selfish protagonist · academic protagonist · archaeologist protagonist · professor protagonist · careerist · outsider · intense ambition · unfulfilled · socially flawed

Relationships labels: crumbling marriage · marital conflict · failed partnership · romantic breakup · ex-partner · student-teacher dynamic · colleague conflict · friendship strain · family estrangement · exploitative relationships · power imbalance · community alienation

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Distance: 0.1390

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One Yellow Eye

Leigh Radford · 2025

A grieving scientist hides her infected husband while racing a covert lab to find a cure after a zombie outbreak.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · microbiologist · virologist · brilliant scientist · grieving widow · obsessive caregiver · difficult protagonist · selfish protagonist · resourceful protagonist · ethical transgressor · burnout · exhaustion · obsession · desperation · reckless · humanized monster

Relationships labels: marriage · spousal devotion · caregiver relationship · friendship strain · colleague tension · romantic grief · codependency · power imbalance · secrecy

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Distance: 0.1408

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Hey, Zoey

Sarah Crossan · 2024

A woman’s life unravels after she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll and begins confronting buried truths.

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Characterization labels: unlikable protagonist · traumatized woman · middle-aged woman · teacher · anesthesiologist husband · mentally declining mother · older sister · younger sister · family victimization · depressive protagonist · emotionally numb · controlling · lonely · logical · organized

Relationships labels: strained marriage · marital betrayal · emotionally disconnected couple · sister bond · family dysfunction · parent-child care · dependency · power imbalance · conflicted intimacy

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Distance: 0.1536

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Factoring Humanity

Robert J. Sawyer · 1998

A psychologist decoding alien signals and her AI-researching estranged husband confront a breakthrough that could remake humanity.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonists · psychologist protagonist · computer scientist · estranged couple · grieving parents · AI character · skeptical protagonist · rational characters

Relationships labels: estranged marriage · parent-child conflict · family fracture · parental accusation · professional partnership · divorce · grief

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1567

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Everything You Ever Wanted

Luiza Sauma · 2019

A depressed London worker joins a one-way reality show to a new planet, hoping escape will solve everything.

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Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · young woman · millennial · alienated worker · unlikable protagonist · morally questionable protagonist · passive protagonist · flawed protagonist · lonely protagonist · self-destructive · chronically unhappy

Relationships labels: family estrangement · mother-daughter tension · sibling bond · on-off relationship · colleague romance · friendship loss · leaving loved ones · community dependence · social isolation

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Distance: 0.1573

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The Screwfly Solution

Raccoona Sheldon, James Tiptree Jr. · 1977

A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · scientist husband · wife protagonist · family focus · ordinary people · male aggression · female vulnerability · limited character development

Relationships labels: husband-wife · parent-child · family separation · gender conflict · power imbalance · male-female conflict · community breakdown · cult allegiance · dependency · protective concern

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Distance: 0.1578

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Owlish

Dorothy Tse · 2023

A Hong Kong professor’s private obsession with a living ballerina doll collides with a city’s political unrest.

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Characterization labels: middle-aged professor · literature professor · academic antihero · obsessive protagonist · emotionally stagnant · dull husband · civil servant wife · mechanical woman · morally compromised man · detached protagonist · male gaze · solipsistic

Relationships labels: dysfunctional marriage · extramarital affair · obsessive romance · human-object relationship · unreciprocated desire · marital alienation · friendship as guide · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.1598

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The Terminal Experiment

Robert J. Sawyer · 1995

A scientist who finds evidence of the soul makes digital copies of himself, and one copy escapes into murder.

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Characterization labels: biomedical engineer · scientist protagonist · detective · best friend · AI specialist · marital conflict · flawed protagonist · morally ambiguous protagonist · sympathetic characters · flat characters · one-dimensional characters · male gaze · sexist characterization

Relationships labels: marriage crisis · infidelity · friendship · scientific partnership · romantic tension · betrayal · family drama · power imbalance

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Distance: 0.1604

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Tom Sweterlitsch · 2014

A grief-stricken investigator uses a VR archive of destroyed Pittsburgh to solve a murder that may erase the past itself.

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Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · drug-addicted protagonist · damaged antihero · loner · investigator · archivist · marginalized outsider · obsessive protagonist · depressed protagonist · female victims

Relationships labels: marriage loss · bereavement · wife obsession · unborn child loss · family loss · power imbalance · cat and mouse · romantic objectification · dependency

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Distance: 0.1625

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The Shadow Out of Time

H.P. Lovecraft · 1968

An amnesiac professor uncovers a terrifyingly vast alien history hidden inside his lost years and recurring dreams.

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Characterization labels: professor protagonist · academic protagonist · married protagonist · family man · amnesiac · possession victim · investigator · pawn protagonist · outsider · obsessive researcher

Relationships labels: marriage breakdown · family estrangement · parent-child bond · power imbalance · body possession · host body relationship · dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1647

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