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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day.

Themes labels used: existence, reality, time, infinity, universe, science and emotion, family love, sisterhood, identity, mortality, memory, academic pressure, curiosity, logic, loss, grief, what is real

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The End of Mr. Y

Scarlett Thomas · 2006

A PhD student finds a cursed rare book and is pulled into a mind-travel mystery about reality, time, and thought.

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Themes labels: consciousness · identity · reality · free will · meaning of life · death · love · faith · religion · science and religion · philosophy · quantum physics · time · memory · privacy · power and control · knowledge · curiosity · ethics of intervention · thought experiments · language and reality · the nature of existence

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The Library of Babel

Jorge Luis Borges · 2000

An infinite library contains every possible book, forcing its inhabitants to search for meaning amid endless gibberish.

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Themes labels: infinity · knowledge · truth · meaning · language · interpretation · chance · order and chaos · futility · hope and despair · identity · memory · creation · reality and fiction · existential dread · human limitation · search for absolute knowledge · solitude · faith · ontology

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Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

The Circumference of the World

Lavie Tidhar · 2023

A mathematician, a bookseller, and a mobster chase a vanished science-fiction novel that may reveal reality’s deepest truth.

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Themes labels: reality · belief · religion · science and mysticism · obsession · identity · memory · consciousness · humanity · cosmology · truth vs hoax · knowledge · meaning of life · simulation hypothesis · faith

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The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares · 2003

A fugitive hides on a remote island, where mysterious visitors and an impossible romance lead him into a reality-bending discovery.

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Themes labels: immortality · death · time · identity · reality · illusion · memory · consciousness · loneliness · technology · love · desire · perception · sanity · existentialism · mortality · truth · human connection · image · the self

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Distance: 0.1094

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Cover of La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares

La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín

Adolfo Bioy Casares · 1982

A fugitive on a deserted island uncovers a strange repeating reality and falls into an impossible, dangerous love.

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Themes labels: reality and illusion · love · immortality · death · time · memory · consciousness · solitude · existence · identity · perception · technology · eternal return · belonging · creation · artificial reality · truth and appearance

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Zima Blue and Other Stories

Alastair Reynolds · 2006

A linked SF story collection follows journalists, robots, and wanderers through far-future mysteries, art, memory, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · self-discovery · art · humanity · happiness · purpose · simple life · fallibility · technology and humanity · faith and religion · quantum reality · multiverse · enlightenment · mortality · fame · greed · sacrifice · survival · truth and perception · illusion · misdirection · existential questioning · meaning of life

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The Distance of the Moon

Italo Calvino · 2018

A tiny collection of cosmic tales turns astronomy into whimsical, romantic, and philosophic short fiction.

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Themes labels: time · loss · desire · love · cosmic scale · human nature · existentialism · change · transformation · science and imagination · knowledge and wonder · mortality · memory · perception · beauty · obsession · identity

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Cover of Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman · 1993

Einstein dreams alternate worlds where time behaves differently, turning physics questions into lyrical philosophical vignettes.

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Themes labels: time · free will · fate · memory · mortality · choice · cause and effect · relativity · creativity · human condition · identity · loneliness · love · future · past · present · responsibility · perception · ethics · physics and philosophy

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The Hollow Man

Dan Simmons · 1994

A grief-stricken telepath loses his psychic shield and is thrust into a violent, mind-bending cross-country odyssey.

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Themes labels: grief · consciousness · mortality · afterlife · mind-body problem · identity · loneliness · love · hope · madness · meaning of life · chaos · order · suffering · redemption · existentialism · free will · human nature · reality perception · communication · memory

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Cover of The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane

The Wounded Sky

Diane Duane · 1986 · Star Trek: The Original Series

The Enterprise tests a radical faster-than-warp drive and risks unraveling space, time, and reality itself.

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Themes labels: entropy · time · causality · consciousness · reality · creation · god · religion · identity · diversity · wonder · exploration · humanity · compassion · death · life · universe · mind-sharing · transcendence

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Cover of The Affirmation by Christopher Priest

The Affirmation

Christopher Priest · 1983

A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.

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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

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