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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Pontypool Changes Everything.
Themes labels used: language, communication, meaning, semiotics, linguistics, mental illness, madness, addiction, forgiveness, taboo, identity, alienation, reality perception, memetics
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
An unnervingly funny short story where a man misreads ordinary language as proof of an alien invasion.
Why this is here
Themes labels: language and meaning · literal vs figurative · paranoia · miscommunication · perception vs reality · alienation · cognitive estrangement · mental illness · interpretation · ordinary life
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1322
Grant Morrison turns Doom Patrol into a surreal superhero team comic where misfits confront reality-bending, absurd threats.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · madness · sanity · trauma · outsiderhood · otherness · duality · transformation · reality vs fiction · art vs reality · psychology · existentialism · absurdism · philosophy · mental illness · abuse · transformation of self · alienation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1389
A cut-up sci-fi assault on control systems, where language, media, and bodies become weapons in a planetary struggle.
Why this is here
Themes labels: language and power · addiction · control systems · individuality · technology · media · reality and illusion · paranoia · counterculture · decadence · obscenity · art as resistance · identity · anti-conformity · consciousness · censorship · social order
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1426
After a violent storm, a coastal town becomes obsessed with strange objects, and one boy may be the only one who can stop what’s waking.
Why this is here
Themes labels: obsession · addiction · collective consciousness · groupthink · paranoia · community · loss of control · identity · morality · madness · dependency · fate · grief · power · otherness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1437
A human colonist returns to an alien city where language is reality, and a new ambassador sparks catastrophe.
Why this is here
Themes labels: language and thought · communication · truth and lying · metaphor and simile · colonialism · politics · power · cultural contact · identity · reality and perception · addiction · alienation · morality · religion · oppression · translation · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1448
A reassembled team of damaged misfit heroes battles reality-bending threats as fiction, identity, and madness collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · trauma · mental illness · disability · alienation · outsiderhood · reality vs fiction · perception vs reality · existentialism · abjection · normalcy · subversion · difference · meaninglessness · madness · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1459
A genius private investigator with hallucinatory experts tackles strange cases, while his mind starts to unravel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · sanity · identity · belief and reality · psychology · compartmentalization · religion · faith · technology and ethics · self-knowledge · loss · control · human psyche
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1463
After a fatal collapse, a troubled woman wakes with чужие memories and must outrun danger to learn what’s real.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · identity · trauma · mental illness · paranoia · sanity · self-doubt · trust · grief · addiction · suicide · abuse · deception · truth-seeking · ethical science
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1482
A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · reality · fiction and truth · madness · schizophrenia · immortality · selfhood · consciousness · metafiction · grief · loss · autobiography · metaphor · higher truth · sanity · perception · meaning-making · life writing · existential uncertainty
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1484
A small-time businessman’s plan to sell lifelike historical androids spirals into obsession, paranoia, and love gone wrong.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · identity · reality · sanity · mental illness · love as madness · authenticity · personhood · capitalism · ethics of technology · freedom · alienation · paranoia · dread · selfhood · humanism · social control · diagnosis · reality perception
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1498
An amnesiac Cambridge professor in a psychiatric ward drifts through visions, letters, and memory as reality fractures.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · sanity and madness · identity · memory · recovery · reality perception · social conformity · self-knowledge · human condition · trauma · war trauma · empathy · psychiatric treatment · selfhood · collective consciousness · connectedness · ecology · civilization critique · human nature · truth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1529
An audio-first Legion novella sends Stephen Leeds into an FBI data-breach case where sound, faith, and vengeance collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · grief · loss · identity · sanity · competence · perception · technology and ethics · religion and science · faith · memory · isolation · trust · control · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1539
