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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A hard-SF collection of ten concept-heavy stories exploring consciousness, genetics, mathematics, and the ethics of future technology.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonists · detectives · agents · thieves · biologists · engineers · thin characterization · unmemorable protagonists · morally engaged protagonists · self-reflective protagonists
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1182
A lavish collection of Lovecraft tales centered on forbidden knowledge, cosmic dread, and the Necronomicon mythos.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: academic protagonists · isolated men · curious investigators · obsessive scholars · introverted characters · morally compromised protagonists · psychological unraveling · sanity erosion
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1260
A group of interconnected Lovecraft tales follows scholars and witnesses into cults, ruins, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientists · historians · investigators · scholars · students · protagonist narrator · outsider protagonist · curious seeker · rational observer · doomed witness · alarmed witness · knowledge-driven · mentally shaken · insignificant humanity · repetitive character types · male protagonists · cultist figures · isolated scholar
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1272
A psychologist decoding alien signals and her AI-researching estranged husband confront a breakthrough that could remake humanity.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonists · psychologist protagonist · computer scientist · estranged couple · grieving parents · AI character · skeptical protagonist · rational characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1283
A journalist and researcher uncover a coded secret in the Great Pyramid, drawing governments and a shadowy society into conflict.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: journalist protagonist · researcher protagonist · academic expert · computer expert · mathematician · linguist · genius team · compelling characters · flat characters · underdeveloped characters · overly perfect characters · naive hero · strong-willed heroine · conspiracy believer
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1319
A future-predicting machine drags a scientist into murder, bioengineering, and a terrifying vision of humanity’s next form.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: scientist protagonist · morally conflicted · petty protagonist · reluctant investigator · lean characterization · obstinate authority · secretive scientists · antagonistic institution · philosophical characters · unnamed future observer
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1407
A psychologist on an isolated space station confronts a sentient ocean that turns memory, guilt, and identity against its visitors.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: psychologist protagonist · scientist characters · isolated crew · reclusive scientists · guilt-haunted characters · passive protagonist · rationalist mindset
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1411
A cop and a neuroscientist confront a memory epidemic that warps identity, time, and reality itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: detective protagonist · neuroscientist protagonist · brilliant scientist · grieving father · traumatized cop · well-intentioned inventor · wealthy benefactor · mysterious billionaire · obsessive investigator · idealistic researcher · emotionally driven characters · genius inventor
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1454
A hard-boiled detective learns he’s fictional and crosses genres to confront his author and escape the page.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: detective protagonist · self-aware characters · sentient characters · archetypal roles · protagonist · antagonist · side characters · talking characters · troped characters · free will
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1456
A scientist who finds evidence of the soul makes digital copies of himself, and one copy escapes into murder.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1472
A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: professor protagonist · skeptical protagonist · unreliable protagonist · paranoid descent · rationalist · intellectual protagonist · obsessive search · fraying sanity
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1473
Holmes and Watson investigate grisly London murders tied to an impossible machine, a cult, and a growing eldritch threat.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: deductive detective · skeptical rationalist · brilliant detective · scientific materialist · reluctant believer · loyal companion · conflicted narrator · family-strained
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1490
