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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Axiomatic.

Characterization labels used: rational protagonists, educated characters, morally conflicted, highly analytical, outsider figures, investigators, detectives, scientists, cybernetic subjects, self-questioning, damaged protagonists

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Cover of Luminous by Greg Egan

Luminous

Greg Egan · 1999

A hard-SF collection of ten concept-heavy stories exploring consciousness, genetics, mathematics, and the ethics of future technology.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1182

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Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft · 2017

A lavish collection of Lovecraft tales centered on forbidden knowledge, cosmic dread, and the Necronomicon mythos.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1260

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Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft · 2016

A group of interconnected Lovecraft tales follows scholars and witnesses into cults, ruins, and cosmic dread.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1272

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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.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1283

Cover of The 10th Cycle by J.C. Ryan

The 10th Cycle

J.C. Ryan · 2014 · Rossler Foundation

A journalist and researcher uncover a coded secret in the Great Pyramid, drawing governments and a shadowy society into conflict.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1319

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Inter Ice Age 4

Kōbō Abe · 1972

A future-predicting machine drags a scientist into murder, bioengineering, and a terrifying vision of humanity’s next form.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1407

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Recursion

Blake Crouch · 2019

A cop and a neuroscientist confront a memory epidemic that warps identity, time, and reality itself.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1454

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Lost on a Page

David E. Sharp · 2021 · Lost on a Page

A hard-boiled detective learns he’s fictional and crosses genres to confront his author and escape the page.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1456

Cover of The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

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.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1472

Cover of The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions by Lois H. Gresh

The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions

Lois H. Gresh · 2017 · Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu

Holmes and Watson investigate grisly London murders tied to an impossible machine, a cult, and a growing eldritch threat.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1490