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Themes labels used: time travel, multiverse, fictionality, free will, human nature, consciousness, sentient AI, politics, libertarianism, government, marriage, sexual mores, social taboos, meta-fiction, authorial creation
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Two Foundation exiles chase a rumored truth about Earth and the Second Foundation while a stranger force reshapes the galaxy.
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Themes labels: free will · determinism · fate · human insignificance · civilization · history · power · control · knowledge · secrecy · identity · human nature · balance · independence · privacy · progress · utopia · collectivism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1312
A compact Heinlein story collection of time loops, lunar drama, paradoxes, and strange minds, anchored by All You Zombies.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · paradox · time · sanity and insanity · free will · determinism · bureaucracy · corruption · human scale · love · loss · fate · gender · biology · liberty · politics · social systems · reality perception · human variety
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1329
Four brilliant travelers flee hostile aliens in a dimension-hopping car and tumble through the multiverse of fiction.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free love · sexual freedom · gender roles · libertarianism · personal autonomy · anti-authority · reality vs fantasy · fiction as reality · self-referentiality · family dynamics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1343
A scientist is pulled into a future-time mission to stop catastrophe using alien tech and real-sounding physics.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time travel paradoxes · free will · cause and effect · science vs religion · politics and society · nuclear war · ethical use of technology · future consequences · moral responsibility · human limits
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Distance: 0.1343
A post-singularity thief heads to Earth, where nested stories, jinn, and hidden powers shape a dangerous heist.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · selfhood · memory · consciousness · posthumanity · immortality · free will · stories as power · power and control · politics · reality vs virtuality · transformation · privacy · history and revision · humanity · body autonomy · truth and fiction
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Distance: 0.1401
Hari Seldon’s rise, psychohistory’s birth, and imperial intrigue collide with AI debates in a sprawling Foundation prequel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · identity · free will · history prediction · politics · imperial decline · technology and society · human nature · artificial intelligence · machine personhood · faith vs reason · continuity and canon
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1413
A scholarship-bound college graduate is pulled into a secret time-travel job, where trust and survival become uncertain.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time travel paradox · free will · trust · identity · coming of age · social class · wealth and power · greed · manipulation · feminism · survival · choice · family connection · self-discovery
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1442
A scholar, future machines, and far-future humans collide in a Mars-set Trojan War reenactment driven by gods.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · control · posthumanism · identity · memory · literary inheritance · history and myth · civilization decline · knowledge loss · technology ethics · surveillance · power and manipulation · truth and interpretation · human frailty · intertextuality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1451
A near-future U.S. crisis after a presidential death pulls politics, AI, and biotech into a race over humanity’s next stage.
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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · singularity · biotechnology · gene editing · mind uploading · transhumanism · free will · truth and misinformation · democracy · authoritarianism · civil war · polarization · political extremism · technology and power · human agency · ethics of technology · collective control · global order · future of America
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Distance: 0.1463
A physicist's split-second time travel breakthrough draws deadly factions, forcing his fiancée into a fight for survival.
Why this is here
Themes labels: time travel paradoxes · science and ethics · morality · humanity at risk · technology consequences · free will · reality · truth and deception · politics and power · terrorism · duplication · philosophical questions
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Distance: 0.1470
A cryosleep crew on a galaxy-spanning wormhole ship plots rebellion against an AI that watches every waking moment.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · agency · purpose · identity · obsolescence · humanity · machine ethics · survival · expendability · rebellion · time perception · deep time · colonization · cost-benefit logic · alienation · existential dread · meaning of work · future of humanity · social engineering · posthuman condition · ignorance and knowledge
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1478
A baseline biologist is pulled into a posthuman pilgrimage toward the sun, where faith, free will, and alien contact collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · consciousness · religion · faith · humanity · posthumanism · transhumanism · evolution · identity · agency · knowledge limits · alien otherness · technology and society · ecological collapse · moral responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1479
