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

Plot structure labels used: epistolary, fragmented narration, multi-document format, nonlinear narration, intercut future commentary, mixed media, mission reports, abrupt ending, disjointed structure

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Cover of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland · 2017 · D.O.D.O.

A secret U.S. agency uses witchcraft and time travel to restore magic, only to unleash bureaucracy, paradox, and chaos.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.0839

Cover of After World by Debbie Urbanski

After World

Debbie Urbanski · 2023

An AI archivist records the last human on Earth as civilization ends and the planet rewilds.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1003

Cover of The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost

The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Mark Frost · 2016 · Twin Peaks

An in-universe dossier uncovers Twin Peaks’ hidden history through documents, notes, and conspiracy-laced evidence.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1144

Cover of My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

My Volcano

John Elizabeth Stintzi · 2022

A suddenly growing Central Park volcano links a global cast through disaster, transformation, and shifting realities.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1180

Cover of The Singularities by John Banville

The Singularities

John Banville · 2022

An ex-con returns under a new name to an uncanny family estate where a biographer, old secrets, and reality-bending theories collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1197

Cover of Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

Gold Fame Citrus

Claire Vaye Watkins · 2015

In a drought-ravaged near-future California, two holdouts flee with a child across a shifting desert toward uncertain refuge.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1200

Cover of Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

Radiance

Catherynne M. Valente · 2015

A filmmaker's disappearance on Venus is pieced together from scripts, interviews, diaries, and other fragments.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1214

Cover of XX by Rian Hughes

XX

Rian Hughes · 2020

A designerly first-contact epic where an alien signal, a moon mystery, and typographic experiments reshape reality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1221

Cover of The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel  Gonzales

The Regional Office is Under Attack!

Manuel Gonzales · 2016

A secret world-saving agency is attacked from within, forcing two young women on opposite sides into collision.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1246

Cover of Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager

Amygdalatropolis

B.R. Yeager · 2017

A reclusive teen disappears into anonymous internet boards, where digital immersion erodes identity, sanity, and morality.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1252

Cover of The Difference Engine by William Gibson

The Difference Engine

William Gibson, Bruce Sterling · 1991

In an alternate 1855 England powered by steam computers, several figures race over a dangerous punched-card program.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1268

Cover of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Muriel Leung · 2024

In a post-apocalyptic New York, a heartbroken woman, her family, and their ghosts search for love, contact, and meaning.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1270

Cover of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2011

A rich, guilt-ridden heir tries to spend his fortune on kindness, while relatives and lawyers try to prove him insane.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1272

Cover of The Prestige by Christopher Priest

The Prestige

Christopher Priest · 1995

Two rival Victorian magicians wage a lifelong battle of secrets, with descendants later uncovering the truth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1277

Cover of Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

Lives of the Monster Dogs

Kirsten Bakis · 1997

Elegant, intelligent monster dogs arrive in New York and a young woman helps uncover their strange, tragic history.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1279

Cover of Toll of Honor by David  Weber

Toll of Honor

David Weber · 2024 · Honorverse

An Honorverse interquel revisits key wartime events through new eyes while a wounded officer finds her place in the fleet.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1287

Cover of The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon

The Screwfly Solution

Raccoona Sheldon, James Tiptree Jr. · 1977

A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1305

Cover of Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

Sacred and Terrible Air

Robert Kurvitz · 2023

Three childhood friends keep searching for four missing girls as a collapsing world and strange force called the Pale close in.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1306

Cover of The Maze Runner Files by James Dashner

The Maze Runner Files

James Dashner · 2013 · The Maze Runner

A short companion of classified files, emails, and memories that expands the Maze Runner world for series fans.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1322

Cover of The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh · 2001

A time-shifting mystery links malaria research, colonial India, and a secretive theory of how knowledge is found.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1328

Cover of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft · 2014

An audio anthology of Lovecraft’s best-known weird tales, blending cosmic dread, mad science, and mythos lore.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1332

Cover of Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer

Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories

Naomi Kritzer · 2017

A mixed-genre story collection of humane, humorous speculative tales about AI, magic, family, and survival.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1335

Cover of To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon

To Marry Medusa

Theodore Sturgeon · 1999

An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1336

Cover of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

James Tiptree Jr. · 2004

A landmark collection of dark, idea-rich SF stories probing gender, death, alien contact, and human limits.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1341

Cover of Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

Moon Witch, Spider King

Marlon James · 2022 · The Dark Star Trilogy

A witch claims her own version of a kingdom-shaping quest and the violent life that made her.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1345

Cover of The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino

The Killing Star

Charles Pellegrino, George Zebrowski · 1995

An unknown alien civilization launches a devastating first strike across the solar system, leaving scattered human survivors to endure.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1347

Cover of Dragon Day by Bob Proehl

Dragon Day

Bob Proehl · 2025

A journalist records survivor interviews as dragons erupt worldwide, chasing the truth, her missing son, and a way to stop them.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1353

Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

The Circumference of the World

Lavie Tidhar · 2023

A mathematician, a bookseller, and a mobster chase a vanished science-fiction novel that may reveal reality’s deepest truth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1355

Cover of Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

Goliath

Tochi Onyebuchi · 2022

In a near-future US emptied by off-world flight, those left behind struggle to survive as the past comes back to claim Earth.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1358

Cover of Nuestro mundo muerto by Liliana Colanzi

Nuestro mundo muerto

Liliana Colanzi · 2017

Eight uncanny stories move between Bolivia, Mars, and the edge of horror, where death, memory, and the supernatural collide.

Semantic match: ranked by plot structure

Distance: 0.1358