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These books are ranked using the relationships labels extracted for Childhood's End.
Relationships labels used: power imbalance, collective control, human-alien relations, guardian relationship, social dependency, generational change
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their relationships embeddings are close.
In a buried society ruled by strict laws, a mechanic uncovers buried truths that could bring the whole system down.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: community control · power hierarchy · betrayal · loyalty · revolutionary alliances · generational conflict
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1322
A stranded clone-heavy colony on an alien world must survive, adapt, and learn to read the planet’s truly alien natives.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: human-alien partnership · colonist hierarchy · observer subject relationship · parent-child · generational conflict · clan society · matrilineal society · power imbalance · social dependency · cross-species communication
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1324
A combative journalist is drawn into a near-future housing nightmare where truth, survival, and control collide.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: power imbalance · institutional control · community solidarity · female relationships · betrayal · surveillance · us vs them
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1330
A young archivist on a floating island in a sea of sand faces upheaval when a mysterious girl arrives with dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: community isolation · elder rule · generational divide · outsider arrival · power imbalance · friendship · protective curiosity · secrecy and mistrust · dependency on leadership
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1346
In 1930s Buenos Aires, an elite project to display Indigenous people derails when a telepathic sloth enters the system.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: power imbalance · colonizer and colonized · manager-subordinate · state control · collective exploitation · sexual telepathy · institutional complicity · class domination
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1385
A human science team on an alien world uncovers a secret mission tied to an ancient artifact and an encroaching interstellar war.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: cross-cultural contact · human-alien relations · team dynamics · power imbalance · covert manipulation · collective society · war enemy · bridge between cultures · dependency · ostracism
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1403
A self-selected collection of Le Guin’s earthbound short fiction, mixing realist, folkloric, and quietly strange stories.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: family dynamics · siblings · parent-child · community ties · neighbor relationships · romantic tension · power imbalance · dependence · social hierarchy · state oppression
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1416
A young human on an alien world must decide whether to carry an alien’s eggs and survive the cost.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: symbiosis · power imbalance · coercive dependence · interdependence · care exchange · love and servitude · family duty · parent child · species bargain · unequal consent
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1431
A teen girl surviving alone after nuclear war faces a stranger whose arrival turns refuge into danger.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: power imbalance · gender conflict · predatory relationship · caregiver dynamic · trust and mistrust · man vs woman · dependency · isolation
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1435
A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: power imbalance · control and obedience · betrayal · community under pressure · sexual exploitation · rivalry with authority
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1441
An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: collective identity · individual isolation · human cooperation · alien-human connection · host-parasite · power imbalance · community bonds · miscommunication · interdependence · shared consciousness
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1445
A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.
Why this is here
Relationships labels: marriage · companionship · community breakdown · parent-child absence · intergenerational loss · power imbalance · tyranny · travel companions · social isolation · dependency
Semantic match: ranked by relationships
Distance: 0.1462
