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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Homunculus (Omnibus), Vol. 1-2. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: Trepanation experiment, Sixth sense, Subconscious vision, Hidden inner self, Psychological trauma, Homunculi
Setting labels used: Urban contemporary, Homelessness, Car dwelling, Medical experiment, Psychological reality, Supernatural reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery
Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2083
A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mind control · false memories · phobia outbreak · psychiatric manipulation · brainwashing · subconscious control · mysterious illness · ordinary couple under threat
Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2186
An FBI agent survives a bombing and begins experiencing a reality-bending psychic shift that blurs human and alien identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien identity · dual self · investigative mystery · mind reading · psychic perception · survival after explosion · unstable reality · body-sharing
Setting labels: federal workplace · hospital setting · crime scene investigation · psychological reality · psychedelic reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2229
Moon Knight’s identities splinter into separate realities, forcing a surreal battle to understand what’s real and who he is.
Why this is here
Premise labels: split identity · multiple selves · mental health · identity crisis · psychological conflict · superhero identity
Setting labels: New York City · the moon · mental institution · psychological interior · Egyptian imagery · alternate realities · supernatural reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2249
A man wakes to find his skin has turned dark, and the change spreads, forcing intimacy, fear, and racial reckonings.
Why this is here
Premise labels: body transformation · racial transformation · identity crisis · social experiment · race allegory · unexpected change · thought experiment
Setting labels: unnamed town · social unrest · urban community · apocalyptic atmosphere · dystopian feel · racialized society · current-day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2293
A futuristic psychotherapist enters patients’ dreams to heal them, then risks everything when a blind aspiring shaper becomes his patient.
Why this is here
Premise labels: dream therapy · shared dreams · psychoanalysis · blind patient · future psychiatry · mind exploration · consciousness
Setting labels: near future · high technology · post-scarcity · overpopulated society · automated transport · simulated reality · dreamscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2313
Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.
Why this is here
Premise labels: memory swapping · memory loss · identity exchange · grief recovery · found friendship · mystery solving · body-switching trope
Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2381
A troubled young artist’s nightmare drawings begin coming to life, dragging her into violent secrets and deadly truths.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nightmares · dreams to reality · art therapy · cursed art · serial killings · psychic trauma · family trauma · psychological terror · hidden past · revenge
Setting labels: contemporary · modern world · fictionalized reality · dream world · supernatural reality · dark atmosphere
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2393
A grieving man is pulled into parallel lives and a deadly confrontation with his own double.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel universes · doppelgänger · second chances · grief after loss · experimental therapy · alternate selves · identity crisis · reality bending · many worlds theory
Setting labels: Chicago · contemporary · stormy night · rainy night · urban setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2415
A robot-like investigator in an underground world must solve his identity while uncovering the rules of a reality that won’t stay fixed.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · human or machine · controlled environment · hidden controller · mystery quest · free will · epistemic uncertainty · thought experiment
Setting labels: underground bunker · shelter · bizarre underground world · city of statues · time-dilated city · apocalyptic world · surreal reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2442
A young believer is dropped into a baffling experimental city and rises through its chaos as its hidden logic unravels.
Why this is here
Premise labels: experimental city · mysterious experiment · job reassignment · social experiment · ideological collapse · political ascent · search for meaning
Setting labels: artificial city · isolated city · possibly other planet · alternate reality · 20th century transplants · twentieth-century historical cross-section · surreal cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2488
A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.
Why this is here
Premise labels: awakening · hidden truth · alien infiltration · mind control · subliminal control · conspiracy · secret society · resistance
Setting labels: contemporary society · urban public spaces · media-saturated world · Earth · present-day realism · alien-in-disguise reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2499
