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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for The Book of Strange New Things.
Motifs labels used: letters, email, Bible, mission, wounds, language, robes, distance, weather disasters, alien speech, silence, flesh, healing
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
In a zombie-ravaged world, two women form a survival pact that turns into a dangerous, slow-burn sapphic romance.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: medication · touch · sound · darkness · walls · travel · injury · blood · grief · shelter · healing
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1626
In a world where children’s speech becomes lethal to adults, one father tries to save his family and find a cure.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: alphabet · speech · words · silence · noise · radio · sermons · holes · disease · infection · toxicity · breathing apparatus · quarantine imagery · bodily decay · bodily fluids · shards · fracture · mystery language · Hebrew
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1686
A stubborn space marine and an alien warrior-doctor clash on a warship, then must trust each other to survive a galaxy threat.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: fire and ice · oil and water · chemistry · battles · bugs · aliens · symbionts · healing · honor · barriers · sparks
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1845
A loyal Death Guard captain races through war and the warp to warn Terra of Horus’s betrayal.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: warp · Chaos · prayer · messenger · ship combat · corruption · trauma · oaths · warnings · reanimated corpses · gore · plague
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1866
A crash-landed human survivor and a devout lizard warrior endure a brutal alien world and an unlikely bond.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: pilgrimage · prayer · religious ritual · scarification · healing herbs · beetles · scales · lizard imagery · body language · language barriers · journey · fire · cliffhangers
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1875
A traumatized Jesuit returns to a transformed alien world, where faith, forgiveness, and contact collide again.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: music · hands · lightning · rain · language · food · vegetarianism · meat · travel · time · proverbs · prayer · sacrifice
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1897
A wordless fantasy journey follows a mysterious armored guardian and a memoryless girl through a dangerous, changing world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: seasons · blood · armor · path · trees · light · landscapes · glyphs · color · two-page spreads · natural catastrophes · flowers
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1898
Eight uncanny stories move between Bolivia, Mars, and the edge of horror, where death, memory, and the supernatural collide.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: dead · ghosts · spirits · meteorite · eyes · words · word power · waves · Mars · animals · snakes · poison · fire · alcohol · oral testimony · apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1905
A group of neglected children on a summer vacation must survive when a storm turns their parents’ collapse into apocalypse.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: Bible · Flood · storm · animals · nature · phones · drinking · drugs · sex · merits and demerits · symbols · exodus · ark · burning bush · plague
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1909
A sheltered Catholic teen crosses a collapsing America where a virus turns the infected into sexually violent monsters.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: virginity · sin · lust · disease · blood · fire · germs · Bible · religious imagery · dog · library books · road trip · animal death · beauty · horror imagery
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1925
On a future Earth split by fever-worshippers and tech survivors, a soldier is swept into a prophecy, war, and fated love.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: fever · prophecy · powerful gifts · memory · past and future sight · space · ships · knighthood · oaths · glimpses · title drop
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1933
A traumatized imperial cryptarch navigates espionage, rebellion, and a widening war while wrestling grief and power.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: masks · currency · accounting · ledgers · cancer · poison · ships · sea travel · blood · violence · names · maps · letters · reports · interrogation · cults · body horror
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1946
