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Similar in plot structure

These books are ranked using the plot structure labels extracted for Queen Demon.

Plot structure labels used: alternating timelines, past and present, parallel narratives, sequel continuation, direct continuation, cliffhanger ending, slow burn build, second-book setup, nonlinear chronology

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

Cover of Pivot Point by Kasie West

Pivot Point

Kasie West · 2013 · Pivot Point

A teen with the power to preview choices must pick between two futures after her parents' divorce—while danger closes in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0757

Cover of Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2 by Ichigo Takano

Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2

Ichigo Takano · 2016 · Orange: The Complete Collection

Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0858

Cover of Wake Me After the Apocalypse by Jordan Rivet

Wake Me After the Apocalypse

Jordan Rivet · 2018 · Bunker

An 18-year-old wakes alone in a damaged cryosleep bunker after a comet apocalypse and must survive a changed world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0868

Cover of The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road

Monica Byrne · 2014

Two women in different times and places flee violence toward Ethiopia, linked by a forbidden sea bridge and hidden truths.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0871

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Star Splitter

Matthew J. Kirby · 2023

A teen arrives on a ruined alien world and must survive a crash, a duplicate self, and a mystery gone wrong.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0896

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Absolution Gap

Alastair Reynolds · 2005 · The Inhibitor Sequence

Human refugees and a strange moon-bound religion converge as humanity seeks a desperate answer to the Inhibitors.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0896

Cover of The Portal by Kathryn Lasky

The Portal

Kathryn Lasky · 2019 · Tangled in Time

A grieving middle schooler discovers a greenhouse portal to Tudor England and a family mystery tied to Princess Elizabeth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0898

Cover of Now, Then, and Everywhen by Rysa Walker

Now, Then, and Everywhen

Rysa Walker · 2020 · Chronos Origins

Two future historians collide across eras when a time shift erases lives and threatens to rewrite history forever.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0902

Cover of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons

Iain M. Banks · 1992 · Culture

A Culture agent is sent on a mission, while a reversed past slowly reveals the trauma and identity behind him.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0903

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Children of Strife

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026 · Children of Time

Three timelines collide on a terraformed world, where uplifted species, desperate humans, and old sins of creation meet.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0905

Cover of Shadow Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shadow Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2019 · Shatter Me

A Kenji-centered novella revisits a crucial series fallout from his perspective, revealing new truths, hurt, and tension.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0921

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood · 2009 · MaddAddam

Two women survive a man-made apocalypse while moving through a world of eco-faith, corporations, and engineered life.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0931

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Extinct

R.R. Haywood · 2018 · Extracted Trilogy

A rogue team races through twisted timelines to stop a former secret-service chief from causing apocalypse.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0932

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Taltos

Steven Brust · 1988 · Vlad Taltos

A snarky assassin’s early career collides with a perilous trip into the land of the dead, forging key alliances.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0936

Cover of Dark Days by Manel Loureiro

Dark Days

Manel Loureiro · 2013 · Apocalipsis Z

A survivor group seeks refuge in the Canary Islands, only to find zombies, politics, and betrayal have followed them.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0936

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Children of God

Mary Doria Russell · 1998 · The Sparrow

A traumatized Jesuit returns to a transformed alien world, where faith, forgiveness, and contact collide again.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0944

Cover of 99 Coffins by David Wellington

99 Coffins

David Wellington · 2007 · Laura Caxton

An archaeologist uncovers 99 vampire coffins at Gettysburg, forcing Laura Caxton into a brutal race to stop one missing monster.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0953

Cover of 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa

20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

Naoki Urasawa · 2018 · 20世紀少年 [20th Century Boys]

A childhood game resurfaces decades later, drawing an ordinary man into a slow-burn conspiracy that may end the world.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0954

Cover of The Fossil by Joshua T. Calvert

The Fossil

Joshua T. Calvert · 2021 · Secrets of Mars

In 2042, investigators chase a vanished archaeologist’s secret across Antarctica and Mars, uncovering a buried truth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0958

Cover of An Infinite Love Story by Chanel Cleeton

An Infinite Love Story

Chanel Cleeton · 2026

An astronaut's wife relives their love story while fighting to clear his name after his spacecraft vanishes in the Space Race.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0960

Cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1975 · The Hainish Cycle

A physicist from an anarchist moon visits a capitalist world, forcing both societies’ flaws—and ideals—into view.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0961

Cover of Skyborn by John Jackson Miller

Skyborn

John Jackson Miller · 2009 · Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith

A stranded Sith crew exploits a planet’s superstitions, while a heretical local scholar becomes the key to survival.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0963

Cover of Ultima by Stephen Baxter

Ultima

Stephen Baxter · 2014 · Proxima

A direct sequel where a stranded crew crosses alternate universes, uncovering the hatch builders and a cosmic endgame.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0966

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Anyone

Charles Soule · 2019

A scientist’s failed Alzheimer’s experiment creates body-swapping tech that reshapes society and exposes its dark uses.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0977

Cover of Rescued by an Alien by Amanda Milo

Rescued by an Alien

Amanda Milo · 2017 · Stolen by an Alien

An alien gladiator rescues his long-dreamed mate from brutal captivity and helps her face trauma, trust, and a hard future.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0977