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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Galápagos.
Characterization labels used: misfits, survivors, con artist, captain, ghost narrator, wealthy passengers, prominent passengers, foolish humanity, big-brained humans, small-brained descendants, misanthropic portrait, flawed characters
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A 22-story horror collection of bleak, weird futures where bodies, identities, and ecosystems unravel.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: nameless characters · protagonist as vessel · hapless protagonists · unreliable selfhood · morally compromised characters · reluctant explorers · survivors · cursed characters · scientists · archivist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1914
A ragtag airship crew is pulled into civil war, forcing them to choose sides while old secrets and loyalties collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: misfits · flawed characters · rogue captain · reluctant leader · found family · character-driven · morally gray · competent crew · outcasts · baggage · character growth · dysfunctional family
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1936
Seven surreal Soviet-era tales of expanding rooms, runaway ideas, and a time machine testing reality itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: misfits · wanderers · inventor · writer figure · drifter · gravedigger · corpse · bureaucrats · intellectuals · philosopher figure · autodidact · paranoid protagonist · alienated outsider
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1944
A Moscow flu outbreak forces a mismatched group into a winter road escape toward a remote lake and uncertain safety.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: flawed characters · ordinary people · survivors · neurotic narrator · jealousy · hostility · selfish behavior · family protectiveness · human weakness · survival instincts · complex characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1974
A short story collection using surreal satire to probe consumerism, media, fear, and fragile humanity in American life.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: misfits · ordinary people · struggling characters · simple-minded characters · loving fools · simple characters · everyday people · corporate workers · deadpan narrators
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2025
Ten dark, formally inventive stories use tech, grief, and bizarre premises to expose how fragile people really are.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unreliable narrators · lonely protagonists · unlikeable characters · moral ambiguity · damaged characters · misfits · caretakers · patients · mothers · daughters · women under pressure · self-involved men · victims of patriarchy · victims of technology
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2025
A guilt-haunted man recounts the small-town life and catastrophic accident that shaped his strange, satirical fate.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: misfit protagonist · flawed protagonist · reclusive narrator · guilty conscience · spoiled family · eccentric parents · idle rich · antihero · sympathetic antihero · morally damaged
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2029
A flu apocalypse splits two survivor groups across America, then reveals a deadly alien agenda beneath the collapse.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: average people · flawed characters · survivors · antihero · grieving protagonist · resourceful survivors · homesteaders · obsessive character · sarcastic characters · gritty survivors · character-driven
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2056
A telepathic duo flees an island refuge into a flooded, post-apocalyptic world where answers are scarce and symbols abound.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young telepaths · misfits · criminals · masked characters · poet protagonist · unlikeable protagonist · flawed characters · adults as prisoners · children with agency · mysterious protagonist
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2077
Three interwoven expeditions cross infinite Earths and Mars while a new posthuman species unsettles humanity.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: explorers · adventurers · naval captain · inventor · posthuman children · superintelligent beings · frontier figures · thin characterization · questionable motivations
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2081
Three damaged lives across time are drawn toward a cosmic anomaly, a killer mystery, and a reality-bending future.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: serial killer · physicist · mathematician · sentient starship · space pirate · drifter · VR addict · junkie · sociopath · damaged characters · unlikable protagonists · morally compromised · broken people · unreliable self-concepts
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2084
A posthuman first-contact mission heads into the outer solar system to confront an alien intelligence—and rethink consciousness.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unreliable protagonist · emotionally detached · neurodivergent · posthuman · cyborg · pacifist warrior · multiple personalities · scientist crew · alien intelligence
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2089
