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Themes labels used: death and life, identity, bodily autonomy, corporate power, medical ethics, exploitation, free will, mortality, immortality, loss, vulnerability, survival, corruption, loyalty, personhood
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
Miles audits a cryonics empire on a strange planet, uncovering corruption, kidnappings, and a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · cryonics ethics · technology and society · corporate power · corruption · grief · legacy · aging · death anxiety · identity · money and power · morality of survival · political control · resource inequality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0824
In an immortal future ruled by AI and licensed death, two teens train as scythe apprentices.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · morality · ethics · humanity · death · power · corruption · population control · free will · justice · empathy · utopia · social order · identity · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0839
A revived Army veteran is hunted by a shadowy conspiracy seeking cryogenic immortality, secrets, and control.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · scientific ethics · mortality · body autonomy · survival · power and corruption · conspiracy · human experimentation · morality · cost of progress · technology and ethics · identity · freedom · secrecy · future consequences
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0851
A short-story anthology returns to the Scythedom across its past, present, and future, revealing backstories and new angles.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · population control · morality · ethics · power corruption · freedom · humanity · identity · love · grief · choice · social control · consequences · history
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0882
A teenage sleeper agent from a dying parallel Earth must replace her double on the surviving world and confront who she is.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · humanity · morality · loyalty · love · survival · death · selfhood · free will
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0892
A hunted teen who sees death dates must protect his family when a child’s altered power draws ruthless people in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · life and death · how to live · free will · fate · survival · family protection · power and corruption · responsibility · identity · loss · hope · fear · knowledge burden · moral choice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0946
A hard-boiled PI on Mars investigates a missing man and a fossil-rush conspiracy amid android bodies and corruption.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · mortality · immortality · humanity · morality · greed · law and order · frontier life · technology ethics · consciousness · greed vs science · copy vs original · self-interest · social status
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0963
In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0965
In a bureaucratic Chinese hell, a young wife meets her husband’s new terracotta bride and is drawn into love and upheaval.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · death · reincarnation · personhood · identity · soul · freedom · agency · patriarchy · corruption · bureaucracy · female empowerment · self-knowledge · acceptance · mortality · humanity · social inequality · first love · belief and theology · memory · choice · afterlife ethics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0968
An immortal warrior’s memories are forced open by government experiments, pushing him closer to his origins and freedom.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · mortality · identity · memory · loneliness · loss · violence · free will · exploration of origins · humanity · power and exploitation · purpose · consciousness · dependency · dehumanization
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0973
An aging wizard and a young prince sail across Earthsea to uncover why magic is fading and restore the world’s balance.
Why this is here
Themes labels: life and death · mortality · balance · power and responsibility · humility · selfhood · courage · immortality · greed · evil · leadership · acceptance · purpose · redemption · nature · consequences · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0983
An immortal Marvel ensemble investigates a murder, a sabotage plot, and a hidden cost of resurrection.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · purpose · duty · change · identity · sacrifice · humanity · mortality · free will · hubris · responsibility · memory · alienation · cosmic function · moral ambiguity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0996
