You know how people in this forum are often saying, "Where o where can I find stories like Paige Hawthorne writes?" Or a Western with sex, a mystery with complex characters, etc.
The current edition (March) of "Wired" describes an algorithmic approach to story-hunting for science fiction novels. A way to identify niche interests in more than a hundred categories like hyperspace and the Fermi paradox.
The Science Fiction Concept Corpus used 'plot descriptions, reviews, and user-generated tags' to create 'first-degree neighbors' to your favorite reads.
Of note:
> 43% of sci-horror books are set in outer space.
> 32% about virtual reality include artificial intelligence.
> 19% with magical feminism feature time travel.
Stanford's Human Computer Interaction lab created a story-recommendation tool from over 2600 books written since 1900.
A couple of examples ...
Your interest is genetic enhancement:
> Sundiver / David Brin
> Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood
Immortality:
> Endymion / Dan Simmons
> The Vampire Lestat / Anne Rice
Discuss,
Paige
