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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Feed Them Silence.

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

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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

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1513

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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

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1228

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Mount Dragon

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 2005

A secret desert lab’s attempt to engineer a flu cure spirals into a deadly biosecurity crisis and survival chase.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · female scientist · visionary CEO · corporate boss · assistant · security director · former colleague · crusading professor · geneticist · biogenetics technician · feisty heroine · flawed protagonist · unlikable protagonist · mad scientist · stressed researchers · shady hacker

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1281

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The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts · 2015

An Antarctic SETI disaster launches a cross-time chase into Kant, AI, and the limits of human reality.

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Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · disfigured protagonist · alcoholic protagonist · unlikable protagonist · obsessed philosopher · surly character · practical character · AI character · shadowy institute · traumatized survivor

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Distance: 0.1379

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Taivas

Piia Leino · 2018

In a sealed future Helsinki, a numb researcher awakens through virtual reality and is pulled toward dangerous real-world feeling.

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Characterization labels: apathetic protagonist · waking protagonist · researcher protagonist · strong female character · morally gray characters · insecure characters · possessive male character · passive male lead · ideological contrast · complex characters

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Distance: 0.1404

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Fractal Noise

Christopher Paolini · 2023 · Fractalverse

A grieving xenobiologist joins a perilous trek across an alien planet to investigate a perfect hole and the signal it emits.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · depressed protagonist · widower · xenobiologist · scientist crew · religious character · geologist · chemist · flawed characters · unlikable characters · dysfunctional crew · traumatized characters · genetically modified human · morose protagonist

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Distance: 0.1428

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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.

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Characterization labels: unnamed scientist · mad scientist · ambitious scientist · curious investigator · unlikable protagonist · irreverent protagonist · unsympathetic antagonist

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1438

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Parasite Eve

Hideaki Sena · 2005

A grieving scientist’s experiment with his dead wife’s cells awakens a terrifying force inside the human body.

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Characterization labels: researcher protagonist · scientist protagonist · grieving husband · teen transplant patient · student researcher · obsessive experimenter · medical professional · morally compromised

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1455

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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

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Distance: 0.1471

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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

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Distance: 0.1484

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The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu · 2023

In a locked-down future lab, a grieving scientist’s son hunts his father’s killer with help from the lab’s AI.

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Characterization labels: depressed protagonist · morally gray · obsessive · paranoid · damaged · unhinged · ruthless · ambiguous motives · unlikable characters · messy characters · female agency · AI character · endearing AI · mad scientist · scientist son · security chief · research intern · morally gray woman · complicated protagonist · suicidal ideation

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Distance: 0.1488

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Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 1-2

Hideo Yamamoto · 2023 · Homunculus Omnibus

A homeless man joins a skull-drilling experiment and starts seeing people’s hidden inner selves as grotesque forms.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: Unreliable protagonist · Morally ambiguous protagonist · Homeless protagonist · Socially alienated protagonist · Eccentric scientist · Shady medical student · Creepy antagonist · Unlikable protagonist · Compelling protagonist · Secretive protagonist

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1491

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