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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Rapture of the Nerds.
Themes labels used: technology and society, transhumanism, posthuman identity, humanity, free will, civil rights, religion and secularism, belief systems, culture shock, change and continuity, simulation, immortality, digital consciousness, gender identity, body vs mind, economics, limits to growth, bureaucracy, ideology, satire, information ethics
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A decades-spanning posthuman saga follows an exiled diplomat through a fractured solar system of warring human factions.
Why this is here
Themes labels: posthumanism · human evolution · identity · longevity · immortality · power politics · technology and society · ideology · adaptation · transhumanism · speciation · social fragmentation · capitalism critique · social critique · freedom vs control · humanity · future shock
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0942
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
A cyborg special agent hunts cybercriminals in a near-future Japan where minds, bodies, and identity are under siege.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human vs machine · identity · consciousness · AI ethics · transhumanism · cybernetics · technology and society · political corruption · terrorism · memory and self · sentience · posthumanism · human rights · philosophy · spirituality · dehumanization
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0990
A corporate-led investigation of a crashed alien ship opens into a sprawling mystery across present, past, and far-future timelines.
Why this is here
Themes labels: technology and society · identity · gender fluidity · immortality · religion · ideology · surveillance · capitalism · utopia · mistrust · human expansion · first contact · power and control · war preparation · transhumanism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0993
A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity vs technology · post-humanism · human evolution · transhumanism · moral ambiguity · choice and consequence · war and survival · faith and secularism · control and regulation · progress versus caution · technology misuse · ethics of intervention
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1009
A game developer’s rogue NPC becomes self-aware, forcing her to confront AI, control, and what counts as human.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · humanity · identity · gender identity · technology ethics · AI ethics · creation and responsibility · free will · simulation · reality · singularity · transhumanism · mind-body problem · playing god · human condition · selfhood · control · limits of technology · suffering and beauty · existentialism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1044
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate power · technology and humanity · posthumanism · art and value · wealth and class · identity · consciousness · transhumanism · god in machine · faith and belief · information economy · alienation · commercialism · morality of power · social decay · mortality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1049
A massive Isaac Asimov story collection of idea-driven, twisty science fiction exploring future tech, time, robots, and humanity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: technology and society · future of humanity · artificial intelligence · robot ethics · free will · scientific progress · time · entropy · human nature · ethics · religion and science · government and control · education · memory and history · social change · gender roles · population · war · alien contact · identity · loneliness · hope · humor
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1065
A mind-linking drug triggers global unrest as governments, hackers, and posthumans fight to control humanity’s future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: transhumanism · posthumanism · neuroscience · artificial intelligence · civil liberties · surveillance · ethics of technology · mind and identity · collective consciousness · empowerment and control · political manipulation · revolution · empathy · cooperation · fear of the unknown · human rights · security versus freedom · religion and technology · Buddhism · mindfulness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1075
Three generations of one family navigate an accelerating posthuman future as AI, nanotech, and the Singularity reshape humanity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: singularity · transhumanism · posthuman identity · consciousness · personhood · human obsolescence · technology and society · economics · capitalism · post-scarcity · intelligence amplification · free will · agency · lawfare · future shock · family legacy · Fermi paradox · human rights
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1099
In a cyberpunk future, tangled lives, fake identities, and an AI-driven conspiracy pull several outsiders toward collision.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · surveillance · technology and society · corporate power · humanity · addiction · class divide · memory · control · transhumanism · alienation · survival · free will · artificial intelligence · posthumanism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1106
A billionaire’s brain is scanned after death, igniting a digital afterlife, a mythic power struggle, and near-future upheaval.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · consciousness · identity · souls · technology and ethics · transhumanism · afterlife · religious symbolism · mythmaking · free will · reality and simulation · truth and misinformation · social polarization · power and hierarchy · creation and responsibility · human nature · digital immortality · post-truth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1115
