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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Jesus Incident.
Themes labels used: religion, godhood, free will, determinism, faith, worship, consciousness, self-determination, ecology, human nature, power, manipulation, violence, sacrifice, oneness, communication, identity, technology vs humanity, colonialism, environmentalism, bioethics, racism, sexual politics, cloning, authority
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A noble heir arrives on a desert planet where spice, prophecy, and political betrayal reshape his fate.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power · religion · politics · ecology · environmentalism · imperialism · colonialism · resource scarcity · fate vs free will · messianism · hero worship · leadership · identity · survival · prophecy · cultural identity · manipulation · technology and society · human nature · control
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0829
On a doomed colony world, Ender and allies race to avert extinction while a virus, aliens, and faith collide.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0836
A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · humanity · agency · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · free will · corporate greed · capitalism · ethics · technology · religion · faith crisis · indoctrination · control · power · exploitative systems · selfhood · memory · morality · rebellion · resistance · classism · healthcare · social commentary
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0851
In a Dutch-dominated alternate 1920s, a sentient mechanical servant seeks freedom amid war, spies, and philosophy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · slavery · personhood · soul · sentience · religion · determinism · identity · ethics of technology · imperialism · colonialism · resistance · political power · conditioned obedience · morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0859
A hard-SF short story collection where alien POVs, AI, faith, and bleak futures probe what makes us human.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · consciousness · identity · faith · religion · morality · guilt · human nature · alienness · technology · evolution · surveillance · dystopia · environmental collapse · conviction · fear · redemption · truth · social utility · subjective reality · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0860
A six-novel science-fiction saga of empire, desert ecology, religion, and a young heir’s rise to power.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power · religion · ecology · politics · environmentalism · corruption · fanaticism · messianism · human evolution · technology and society · resource scarcity · leadership · prophecy · gender roles · identity · free will · determinism · imperialism · mythmaking · cultural manipulation · survival
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0933
Riverworld’s survivors seize a tower of godlike technology, only to face a hidden enemy and a final test of power.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power · free will · determinism · morality · religion · human nature · corruption · resurrection · sentience · soul · ethics · responsibility · hubris · identity · history
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0960
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: 0.0968
Seven pilgrims travel to a planet of time-twisting tombs and a terrifying creature as galaxy-scale war closes in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith · religion · technology · science and religion · identity · humanity · empathy · love · sacrifice · death and rebirth · free will · time · paradox · war · politics · colonialism · ecology · creation · power · transcendence · memory · dependency · destiny · parental love
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0977
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: 0.0987
An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0999
In a post-nuclear world, a precog’s rise collides with a truth-policing state, mutants, and a strange alien threat.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · determinism · belief · authority · ideology · relativism · truth · messianism · fascism · social control · individual freedom · prophecy · predestination · moral ambiguity · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1002
