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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for His Name was Death.
Themes labels used: colonialism, imperialism, ecology, environmental destruction, power, authoritarianism, freedom, slavery, religion, God, faith, human supremacy, alienation, misanthropy, legacy, guilt, hubris, civilization critique, race, race and species hierarchy, language, communication, information control, revolution, political corruption, death, immortality, identity, alcoholism
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An outcast heiress is pulled into a god-ruled power struggle, as each linked volume reveals a different side of one world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power · colonialism · slavery · freedom · identity · gender · mortality · death · love · politics · religion · culture clash · redemption · reconciliation · social hierarchy · race · caste systems
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0990
Four linked Butler novels trace telepathy, mutation, and power struggles across centuries in a bleak, visionary saga.
Why this is here
Themes labels: slavery · freedom · power · domination · resistance · identity · transformation · race · gender · class inequality · colonialism · survival · community · family · immortality · humanity · eugenics · coercion · autonomy · hierarchy · history · violence · healing · nurturing · sexuality · breeding · colonization · cultural survival · power and love
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1005
A mother searches a shattered world for her stolen child as an apocalyptic landscape and hidden powers collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · oppression · slavery · power and abuse · grief · motherhood · identity · belonging · community · environmental collapse · climate change · otherness · colonialism · racism · prejudice · imperialism · gender · freedom · humanity · responsibility · family · resistance · systemic discrimination · social hierarchy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1010
Seventeen linked speculative horror stories of old gods, colonial critique, and strange human survival across eerie worlds.
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · imperialism · racism · power · responsibility · justice · morality · equality · freedom · sacrifice · fear · survival · love and hate · humanity · scientific ethics · pollution · environmental damage · Anthropocene · war · guilt · death · identity · religion · paganism · colonial critique · social justice · hope · ambivalence toward knowledge · limits of rationality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0721
A schoolteacher turned outlaw and a sentient gun uncover the truth behind a frontier world locked in endless war.
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · imperialism · slavery · self-determination · free will · war · grief · revenge · memory · sentience · moral ambiguity · authoritarian oppression · historical cycles · eugenics · identity · displacement
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1026
Three linked novellas on twin colonized planets unravel identity, colonial guilt, and a vanished people.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · colonialism · colonization · hybridity · heritage · passing · genocide · oppression · racism · slavery · genetic inheritance · nature vs nurture · selfhood · humanity · historical consciousness · truth and perception · social reality · cultural extinction · authority · imperialism · childhood · maturity · moral ambiguity · postcolonial guilt · species shame
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1072
A lyrical cycle of linked stories follows Earth’s attempts to settle Mars and the human flaws that follow.
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · human nature · racism · prejudice · war · censorship · environmental destruction · American Dream · technology · identity · faith · loneliness · wonder · civilization collapse · cultural imperialism · ignorance · hubris · exploration · survival · change · memory · colonization · alienation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0792
A besieged crab-city becomes the latest battleground in a long war between magic, faith, and an empire of “Perfection.”
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · imperialism · war · occupation · siege · religion · faith · rationalism · authoritarianism · perfectionism · morality · identity · belonging · freedom · self-determination · redemption · forgiveness · revenge · compromise · betrayal · power · humanity · meaning · community · oppression · civil disobedience · ideology · state violence · corruption
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0831
A Palleseen envoy and her new aide navigate a succession crisis as imperial “perfection” creeps toward conquest.
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · imperialism · oppression · freedom · faith · religion · reason · perfection · correctness · cultural destruction · ideology · duty · loyalty · belonging · moral compromise · power · succession · colonization · religious pluralism · authority
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0835
A traumatized imperial cryptarch navigates espionage, rebellion, and a widening war while wrestling grief and power.
Why this is here
Themes labels: empire · colonialism · imperialism · identity · morality · sacrifice · revenge · grief · loss · power · compromise · trust · vulnerability · culture · cultural change · globalization · economics · politics · war · eugenics · homophobia · sexism · cancer metaphor · family and obligation · freedom vs duty · agency · selfhood · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0897
A rookie captain wakes to murdered sleepers on a colony ship, then must survive a rogue AI and unravel the killer.
Why this is here
Themes labels: colonialism · anticapitalism · capitalism · power exploitation · justice · responsibility · survival · trust · identity · mental strain · politics · environmentalism · personhood · technology ethics · space isolation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0919
A shipbound engineer wakes from cryostasis to find a ruined colony ark, rival visions for humanity, and a fate-shaping choice.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ecology · religion · ethics · colonialism · human nature · memory · history · identity · creation · paradise · original sin · redemption · technology · biological enhancement · collective guilt · civilization · environmental stewardship · utopia vs dystopia · humanity · faith · sacrifice · legacy · social systems · scientific progress
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0920
