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Jonathan Maberry, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Scott Nicholson, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost

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Characterization labels used: patient zero, scientist, vampire expert, newly changed, newly infected, failed actor, talk show host, undercover agent, militia leader, border patrol agent, politician, family-focused, traumatized, power-hungry, ordinary people

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Cover of The Deluge by Stephen Markley

The Deluge

Stephen Markley · 2023

A near-future American epic where climate crisis and political breakdown pull a vast cast toward collapse and hard choices.

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Characterization labels: scientist · climate scientist · mathematician · neurodivergent character · drug addict · recovering addict · activist · eco-terrorist · religious zealot · politician · marketing professional · advertising strategist · actor-turned-zealot · veteran · maverick biologist · chief of staff · analyst · business people · ordinary people · flawed characters · unlikable characters · complex characters · radicalized characters

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Distance: 0.2890

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Cover of A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal

A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

Raymond A. Villareal · 2018

A CDC investigator traces a vampire virus as it spreads worldwide and upends politics, law, religion, and society.

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Characterization labels: CDC investigator · CDC researcher · FBI agent · political strategist · businessman · priest · government officials · vampire elite · one-percenters · flat characters · generic voices · underdocumented characters · charismatic antagonists · morally ambiguous group

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Distance: 0.2963

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The Fall

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 2010 · The Strain

A vampire plague spreads worldwide as a desperate team races to stop its masterminds before humanity collapses.

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Characterization labels: vampire hunter · CDC doctor · exterminator · Holocaust survivor · aging mentor · fugitive · antihero · young son · turned ex-wife · unlikely team · intelligent characters · grizzled veteran · ragtag resistance · villainous mastermind

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Distance: 0.3133

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Cover of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale

Philip K. Dick · 1998

A 27-story Philip K. Dick collection of early SF tales about warped reality, postwar dread, robots, and what makes us human.

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Characterization labels: ordinary man · paranoid protagonist · alien impostor · robotic beings · scientist · soldier · family man · bureaucratic figure · simple characterization

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Distance: 0.3243

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Cover of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020

A near-future climate crisis novel follows a new UN body and a heatwave survivor as the world scrambles for solutions.

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Characterization labels: bureaucrat · aid worker · survivor · technocrat · activist · ecoterrorist · policy official · scientist · economist · refugee · anonymous figures · flat characters · idea-driven characters · traumatized survivor · dedicated leader

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Distance: 0.3272

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Cover of These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed

These Lifeless Things

Premee Mohamed · 2021 · Solaris Satellites

A survivor’s journal from a shattered city becomes a future researcher’s key to uncovering what destroyed humanity.

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Characterization labels: survivor · researcher · anthropologist · journal keeper · ordinary people · flawed characters · introspective voice · resourceful survivor · skeptical scientist

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Distance: 0.3331

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Cover of Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Stories by Max Brooks

Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Stories

Max Brooks · 2012

Four short zombie-apocalypse stories revisit Brooks’s world through survivors, vampires, and rebuilding efforts.

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Characterization labels: survivors · vampires · janitor · ordinary people · professional survivors · civilians under siege · cowardice · resourceful · melancholic · self-sacrifice · strategic thinking · desperate

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Distance: 0.3334

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Cold People

Tom Rob Smith · 2023

After aliens force humanity to flee to Antarctica, survivors fight to build a new society and adapt fast enough to endure.

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Characterization labels: ordinary people · survivors · refugees · scientists · soldier · medical student · fisherman · geneticist · genetically engineered beings · cold-adapted humans · reluctant protagonists

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Distance: 0.3336

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Cover of Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H.P. Lovecraft

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

H.P. Lovecraft · 1919

An asylum intern probes a violent patient’s strange dreams and discovers a reality beyond sleep and the stars.

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Characterization labels: intern · doctor · patient · rural outsider · violent man · uneducated man · obsessive investigator · cosmic being · degenerate outsider (contested) · scientific narrator

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Distance: 0.3340

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Cover of Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant

Kingdom of Needle and Bone

Mira Grant · 2018

When a deadly measles-like outbreak shatters herd immunity, one doctor must choose how far to go to save humanity.

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Characterization labels: pediatrician · doctor protagonist · morally gray protagonist · anti-hero · scientist · children at risk · survivor · patient zero · ruthless pragmatist · flawed heroine · medical professional · guilt-driven character

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Distance: 0.3341

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