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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for The Rapture of the Nerds.
Motifs labels used: the Cloud, computronium, uploading, avatars, smartmatter, virus, jury service, bodies and disembodiment, gender switching, pop-culture references, SF references, Ayn Rand, religious imagery, ants, readme file, gag references
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
In a dying biodome, two survivors send one man into the past to try to save humanity and their love.
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Motifs labels: microdrones · bee bots · artificial bees · biodome · spacetime bridge · wormholes · AI logs · uploaded consciousness · trans timeline viewer · cultural references · pop culture references · pets · cats · dog
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1756
A dead engineer wakes as an uploaded AI and must replicate itself to explore space and secure humanity’s future.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: pop culture references · Star Trek references · nerd culture · 3D printing · virtual reality · AI assistant · space probes · clones · acronyms · technobabble
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1834
A second-chance couple must bend time and reality to save both their relationship and a collapsing world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: time machine · black hole · sphere · seashell · vaccine · virus · nuclear weapon · dogs · pets · encryption · quantum physics · multiple universes · puns · pop culture references · hidden message · weather disaster
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1883
A cyberpunk sequel follows a cyborg operative through dense cyberspace conflict, AI questions, and heavy visual experimentation.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: cyberspace · nude virtual body · panty shots · footnotes · technical jargon · CG art · color/black-and-white contrast · body switching · barriers and viruses · doubling · mythological imagery · drones/assistants
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1960
A near-future short story collection where technology, power, and survival collide in sharp, idea-driven sci-fi tales.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: 3D printing · robots · Three Laws · Asimov references · video games · gold farming · sysadmins · Internet infrastructure · server farms · bioweapon · zombies · coral reef · consciousness transfer · human shells · author introductions
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1962
A cloned AI explorer searches for a missing Bob while a fracturing clone society edges toward civil war.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: clones · nerd references · pop culture references · Star Trek references · virtual reality · mega-structure · river travel · boats · libraries · tech gadgets · bodies/avatars
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1986
On a post-scarcity Moon colony, a jaded reporter probes rising suicides and a troubled ruling AI.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: sex change · digital memory · computer intelligence · journalism · media satire · dinosaurs · Disneylands · starship · Earth exile · invasive technology · cultural references
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2004
Two uploaded groups—astronauts and prisoners—wake centuries later on ruined Earth and must cooperate to survive.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: old movie references · pop culture references · interviews · movies · quantum computing · cryogenic freezing · robots · Mennonites · Asimov references · science references · background sound effects
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2052
A genius schoolteacher with perfect memory investigates a secret teleportation project that may hide a reality-bending danger.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: ants · memory · doors · thresholds · folding space · smiles · pop culture references · secretive technology · teleportation · parallel worlds
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2056
A queer Afrofuturist anthology expands a dystopian world of memory control, resistance, and hard-won hope.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: memory wiping · time travel · time manipulation · future as resource · names as numbers · music references · lyrics references · technology · drone imagery · clean/dirty binary · artificial intelligence · symbols and metaphor
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2077
A far-future crew follows a captured alien ship back through lost human space to uncover what happened to civilization.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: ghosts · avatars · subminds · uploaded minds · clones · digital copies · cold sleep · captured ship · philosopher cells · Dyson swarms · virtual reality · artificial intelligence
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2092
A near-future mind-uploading experiment spirals into a vast inquiry into reality, identity, immortality, and simulated life.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: copies · dust theory · virtual city · servers · processing speed · time dilation · cellular automata · mathematics · memory · software · uploading · infinity · lab experiments · lag · bailout option
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2110
