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Themes labels used: cold war, nuclear war, human survival, technology and power, knowledge and secrecy, future consequences, alternate realities, human nature, political tension, civilization and collapse, scientific wonder, posthumanism
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A disgraced scientist and rival power blocs collide when a future-sent formula makes FTL travel real.
Why this is here
Themes labels: technology and power · political realignment · knowledge suppression · scientific discovery · geopolitical rivalry · colonial expansion · national identity · independence · future uncertainty · cold war · societal transformation · transhuman governance · humanity and the alien · secrecy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1140
An automated house keeps performing its daily routines after a nuclear war has erased the family it was built for.
Why this is here
Themes labels: nuclear war · technological dependence · dehumanization · mortality · nature endures · human folly · loss · entropy · isolation · routine and emptiness · war and annihilation · legacy and erasure · artifice vs life · domestic routine
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1152
A far-future power struggle erupts around ancient alien technology that could upend the Polity and its enemies.
Why this is here
Themes labels: technology and power · containment · survival · civilizational threat · humanity and machine · posthuman identity · AI governance · ancient legacy · war and escalation · moral ambiguity · control of dangerous knowledge · history and memory · loose alliances · endgame stakes
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1257
A miniaturized rescue team races through a scientist’s body to remove a deadly clot before time runs out.
Why this is here
Themes labels: science and wonder · medical rescue · cold war conflict · knowledge and secrecy · limits of technology · body as system · survival · espionage
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1262
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory face a deadly desert town, a nuclear threat, and a time stream running backward.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time and causality · identity · humanity · agency · love vs creation · war and destruction · consequences · trust · sacrifice · Cold War tension · good and bad in human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1273
A Sri Lankan math prodigy’s proof and a looming alien response to human nuclear power unfold in parallel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · optimism · curiosity · mathematics · science and faith · technology and society · political conflict · war and peace · human extinction · future of humanity · progress · humanism · knowledge pursuit · international relations · religion critique · human violence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1275
After nuclear war forces humanity underground, a crew investigates the robots fighting on the surface and discovers a disturbing truth.
Why this is here
Themes labels: war · peace · truth and deception · human folly · automation · nuclear paranoia · nationalism · human unity · self-destruction · technological control · propaganda · survival
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1330
An alternate Korean War spirals into global nuclear escalation as leaders and civilians face World War III.
Why this is here
Themes labels: nuclear war · war suffering · survival · civilian cost · escalation · cold war anxiety · helplessness · historical contingency · geopolitics · dehumanization · state violence · moral catastrophe · ordinary lives under war · global consequences
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1334
A rogue admiral pushes his fleet beyond human space to confront the alien power threatening humanity’s future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: technological progress · transcendence · posthumanism · survival · civilizational evolution · xenophobia · war ethics · fate of humanity · human adaptability · politics vs military · loneliness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1360
An archaeologist and a global survival program race toward answers as a catastrophic asteroid impact exposes buried ancient secrets.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human survival · end times · forbidden knowledge · ancient origins · truth versus secrecy · conspiracy · civilizational collapse · history revision · power and control · science versus belief · preparedness · morality under crisis · cover-up · knowledge suppression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1370
A vintage Clarke collection of 11 idea-driven SF stories about space, alien contact, survival, and humanity's future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · evolution · progress · technology · ethics · exile · homesickness · civilizational decline · survival · futility of war · human nature · cosmic insignificance · knowledge and power · utopian possibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1371
In a far-future post-collapse England, Koli’s quest for lost tech collides with village war, hidden history, and AI agency.
Why this is here
Themes labels: civilizational collapse · power and status · technology and control · AI personhood · humanity and survival · hope · fear of progress · truth and myth · education and ignorance · fascism · racism · gender identity · climate change · environmental abuse · war · reconciliation · justice · collective survival · moral choice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1372
