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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Arboreality.
Characterization labels used: librarian, professor, book rescuer, luthier, violin maker, musician, gardener, homesteader, community organizer, salvager, tree planter, apprentice, parent, ancestor, orphan, matriarch, old man, young prodigy, ordinary people, collective protagonist, resilient, pragmatic, creative, obsessive, caretaking, grieving, hopeful
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
As Earth nears destruction by asteroid, a young botanist must decide what—and who—matters most before the final ark leaves.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young scientist · botanist · horticulturist · scientist crew · lonely protagonist · melancholy protagonist · dedicated worker · reflective character · hope-awakened character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2536
Three generations linked by bees confront family strain, ecological collapse, and a future without pollinators.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: beekeeper · biologist · seed merchant · pollinator · family man · mother · father · child focused · legacy driven · obsessive · depressed · headstrong · traditional · grumpy
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2627
A mother and son survive a post-nuclear collapse in rural Wales by rebuilding life, language, and trust.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: mother · son · teenage protagonist · infant survivor · resourceful · adaptive · mature for age · caretaker · forager · handyman · hairdresser (pre-apocalypse) · reader · secretive · resilient
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2643
A wartime girl is swept into the future and must navigate grief, new allies, and a path back to her best friend.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: bookish child · resilient heroine · resourceful child · grieving protagonist · lonely outsider · mean girls · popular crowd · helpful librarian · scientist father · foster child · foster parents · bullied boy · kindred spirits · curious child · persevering protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2646
A remote Anishinaabe community faces blackout, winter scarcity, and outsider pressure while rediscovering old ways to endure.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young family · informal leader · elder wisdom · community leader · outsider antagonist · survivalist · everyman protagonist · resourceful hunter · cultural custodian
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2660
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A reader trapped inside his favorite apocalyptic webnovel uses foreknowledge to survive as story, author, and reader collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: ordinary protagonist · reader protagonist · regressor · writer figure · suicidal protagonist · sacrificial characters · found-family ensemble · multi-generational selves · antiheroic survivalist · emotionally wounded characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2668
A grieving scientist in Antarctica discovers a strange light that may open a door to second chances, love, and time itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: biologist · mycologist · physicist · scientist protagonist · grieving parent · divorced protagonist · messy protagonist · emotionally fractured · brilliant scientist · ambitious · flawed characters · found family
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2685
A farm worker survives a deadly fungal outbreak and becomes the center of science, faith, and family crisis in rural Chile.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: single father · widower · working-class protagonist · farm worker · logging worker · mycologist · priest · child caretaker · abandoned children · reluctant prophet · cult figure · scientific observer · predictive child · fragile adult authority · community witness
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2686
An elderly architect on a dying Earth must choose between a lasting Martian monument and the lives it could help save.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: elderly protagonist · architect · artist · benefactor · billionaire patron · rationalist · resigned · hopeful · pragmatic · morally serious
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2701
A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: survivors · investigators · scientists · families · children · outcasts · soldiers · judges · civil servants · creators · parents · caretakers · isolated protagonists
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2708
An enigmalogist at a remote Adirondacks retreat investigates savage full-moon killings that may be more than a bear attack.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: enigmalogist · empath · history professor · intellectual protagonist · compassionate protagonist · skeptical investigator · ranger friend · scientist character · reclusive family · local rumor mill
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2718
A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: loner · outcast · introvert · survivor · practical · aloof · unlikeable protagonist · feral child · traumatized child · engineer · scientist · fixer · caretaker · maternal ambivalence · resilient · curious child · socially detached
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2733
