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Lindsay King-Miller

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Similar in characterization + relationships

These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for The Z Word. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: chaotic bisexual, messy characters, flawed protagonist, unlikeable characters, stereotyped characters, caricatures, underdeveloped side characters, drag queen, older lesbian, trans character, nonbinary character, stoner, corporate villain, political skepticism, naive protagonist, obsessive ex

Relationships labels used: bad breakup, ex-girlfriend, friend group, found family, frenemies, toxic relationship, queer community, romantic obsession, hookups, wife relationship, friend rivalry, community bonds

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization + relationships embeddings are close.

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Cover of Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su

Blob: A Love Story

Maggie Su · 2025

A lonely young woman adopts a sentient blob and tries to shape it into the ideal boyfriend, with unsettling results.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1531

Cover of Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White · 2022

A trans teen fleeing a doomsday cult finds refuge with queer survivors, even as his body becomes their apocalypse.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1568

Cover of I Can Fix Her by Rae  Wilde

I Can Fix Her

Rae Wilde · 2025

A queer horror novella where a reunion with an ex turns into a week of obsession, shifting reality, and self-destruction.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1571

Cover of Bolero by Wyatt Kennedy

Bolero

Wyatt Kennedy · 2022 · Bolero

A heartbroken queer woman gets a key to multiple universes and chases a reset, but each jump forces deeper self-confrontation.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1573

Cover of Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin · 2022

In a virus-ravaged post-apocalypse, trans survivors hunt feral men, fight TERF militias, and cling to bodies, love, and hormones.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1587

Cover of Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peters

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Torrey Peters · 2016

A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1594

Cover of Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah  Willis

Girlfriend on Mars

Deborah Willis · 2023

A long-term couple is split apart when one enters a reality show for a one-way trip to Mars and the other watches from Earth.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1594

Cover of Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots

Villain

Natalie Zina Walschots · 2026 · Hench

Anna, now the Auditor, escalates her war on superhero institutions while navigating power, grief, and a dangerous boss-romance.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1599

Cover of Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for Another World

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2017

Fourteen darkly funny, unsettling stories follow alienated misfits, bodily disgust, and failed attempts at connection.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1616

Cover of Life in the North by Tao Wong

Life in the North

Tao Wong · 2017 · The System Apocalypse

Camping in the Yukon, a broken man wakes to Earth remade as a deadly RPG and must survive, adapt, and get home.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1646

Cover of The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

The Archive Undying

Emma Mieko Candon · 2023 · The Downworld Sequence

A traumatized, unkillable relic is dragged back into a ruined world of AI gods, mechs, devotion, and dangerous secrets.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1708

Cover of Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel   Harrison

Kiss Slay Replay

Rachel Harrison · 2026

At a picture-perfect wedding, a heartbroken guest gets trapped in a deadly time loop with a masked killer.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1731