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Themes labels used: free will, authority, organized religion, faith, morality, good and evil, innocence to adulthood, love, loss, death, sacrifice, knowledge, curiosity, science and religion, humanity, nature, identity, responsibility, rebellion, choice, truth

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His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman · 2007 · His Dark Materials

A child from one world and a boy from another are swept into a multiverse quest shaped by Dust, daemons, and authority.

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Themes labels: good and evil · religion · organized religion · authority · freedom · truth · knowledge · consciousness · soul · adolescence · growing up · innocence · experience · morality · free will · curiosity · love · friendship · loyalty · family · oppression · rebellion · self-discovery · body and soul · science and faith · afterlife · death · hope · sacrifice · gender · adulthood

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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · 1996 · Ender's Saga

On a doomed colony world, Ender and allies race to avert extinction while a virus, aliens, and faith collide.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · free will · determinism · religion · faith · science and religion · consciousness · sentience · identity · humanity · otherness · prejudice · coexistence · survival · sacrifice · responsibility · good and evil · parental duty · community

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Cover of The Oracle Year by Charles Soule

The Oracle Year

Charles Soule · 2018

A struggling New York bassist wakes with 108 true predictions and becomes a hunted, anonymous oracle.

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Themes labels: free will · fate · destiny · determinism · power · authority · faith · organized religion · morality · responsibility · conscience · ethics of knowledge · greed · profit motive · identity · privacy · media influence · societal collapse · world salvation

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Cover of The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

The Rise of Endymion

Dan Simmons · 1999 · Hyperion Cantos

A fugitive and a messianic young woman race through a future galaxy while churches, AIs, and a killer myth close in.

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Themes labels: free will · mortality · immortality · religion · faith and science · evolution · choice · humanity · love · consciousness · diversity · control · power · corruption · sacrifice · meaning of existence · apocalypse · good and evil

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Cover of The Gods of Riverworld by Philip José Farmer

The Gods of Riverworld

Philip José Farmer · 1983 · Riverworld

Riverworld’s survivors seize a tower of godlike technology, only to face a hidden enemy and a final test of power.

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Themes labels: power · free will · determinism · morality · religion · human nature · corruption · resurrection · sentience · soul · ethics · responsibility · hubris · identity · history

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Small Gods

Terry Pratchett · 2005 · Discworld

A novice and a tortoise-god collide in a satirical fantasy about faith, power, and what belief really does.

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Themes labels: belief · faith · religion · organized religion · fanaticism · free will · truth · power · authority · morality · human nature · philosophy · democracy · ethics · responsibility · goodness · oppression · bigotry · ignorance · self-belief

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Immobility

Brian Evenson · 2012

An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · free will · obedience · knowledge · duty · survival · sacrifice · meaning · moral choice · religion · faith · end of humanity · human nature · self-destruction · truth vs deception · posthumanism · purpose

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The Last Town

Blake Crouch · 2014 · Wayward Pines

After a town-wide revelation, Ethan Burke must help Wayward Pines survive when its defenses fail and the outside threat pours in.

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Themes labels: free will · control · survival · humanity · compassion · moral choice · authority · obedience · truth versus safety · family · loyalty · personal sovereignty · sacrifice · consequences · human nature

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Cover of Shadows Upon Time by Christopher Ruocchio

Shadows Upon Time

Christopher Ruocchio · 2025 · The Sun Eater

A fugitive war hero must rally one last ally and wield an ancient weapon to stop an alien apocalypse and decide humanity’s fate.

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Themes labels: faith · religion · free will · fate · agency · sacrifice · identity · memory · power · corruption · sovereignty · immortality · entropy · prejudice · war · morality · good and evil · existentialism · philosophy · theology · humanity · machine and man · history · legacy · chosen destiny · betrayal

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The Man of Legends

Kenneth C. Johnson · 2017

A troubled journalist uncovers an immortal man’s centuries-spanning secret, igniting a religious conspiracy and a final showdown.

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Themes labels: redemption · salvation · free will · good and evil · faith and belief · organized religion · religious authority · human impact · compassion · sacrifice · history and influence · meaning and purpose · immortality · loneliness · ethical life

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Cover of When True Night Falls by C.S. Friedman

When True Night Falls

C.S. Friedman · 2005 · The Coldfire Trilogy

A priest and an undead sorcerer cross an alien sea to expose a hidden evil in a faith-shaped, nightmare-haunted world.

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Themes labels: faith · religion · morality · good and evil · redemption · loyalty · trust · sacrifice · corruption · free will · power of belief · necessary evil · philosophy

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