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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for All You Zombies and Other Stories.
Premise labels used: time travel paradox, paranoid identity puzzle, fourth dimension, sentient whirlwind, space-age urban politics, moon settlement, death prediction device, interstellar-scale speculation
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise embeddings are close.
A laid-off expat in Thailand is pulled into a mystery when monuments from the future appear, warning of a coming conqueror.
Why this is here
Premise labels: future monuments · reverse time travel · self-fulfilling prophecy · future invasion · causal loop · global upheaval · mystery object · time paradox · societal collapse
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1446
A bewildered real-estate solicitor is pulled into a multiverse mess involving magic, chickens, pigs, and a very odd game.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel worlds · transdimensional travel · real estate chaos · magical mishap · absurdist mystery · identity confusion · chicken-or-egg puzzle
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1483
A bartender's conversation with a troubled patron unfolds into a compact, twisty time-paradox about identity and origin.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time paradox · time loop · identity paradox · causality puzzle · self-origin mystery · predestination paradox · bar conversation
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1510
A widow, a space crew, and a posthuman investigator are drawn through overlapping times toward a mysterious cosmic anomaly.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien artifact · parallel threads · temporal convergence · identity crisis · reality instability · mystery investigation · posthuman encounter · cosmic anomaly
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1556
A young scientist racing to invent time travel must outwit fate, paradox, and his own future self.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · bootstrap paradox · fate vs choice · preventing tragedy · changing the future · hidden truth · memory restoration · past self encounter · science puzzle · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1591
A near-future marriage, a troubled physicist, and a device that may rewrite reality pull one woman into an eerie puzzle.
Why this is here
Premise labels: near future · causality violation · time travel · marriage crisis · grief · alternate reality · technology and society
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1602
The Fourth Doctor, Romana, and K-9 unravel a deadly time loop at an afterlife theme park where they’ve already saved everyone.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time loop · predestination · self-rescue · afterlife tourism · disaster mystery · future self · paradox
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1628
A history teacher pulled into alternate-timeline chaos must help decide which universe survives a looming temporal catastrophe.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · multiverse · parallel universes · historical divergence · time knot · universe survival · moral dilemma · choose worlds · research mission · memory conflict
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1644
Einstein dreams alternate worlds where time behaves differently, turning physics questions into lyrical philosophical vignettes.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time paradoxes · alternate time worlds · dream visions · thought experiments · relativity-inspired fiction · scientific imagination
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1664
Six linked sci-fi stories in shifting realities slowly reveal a hidden pattern, forcing readers to solve the puzzle.
Why this is here
Premise labels: parallel realities · alternative timelines · future variants · time fracture · memory loss · knowledge of future · last human · apocalyptic isolation · hidden connection · puzzle structure · shared characters
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1672
A young man inherits a time belt and discovers time travel means meeting, changing, and becoming versions of himself.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time machine inheritance · alternate selves · time travel paradoxes · identity crisis · self-discovery · self-interaction · multiple timelines · power over history · limited time travel · time travel consequences
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1682
A linked SF story collection follows journalists, robots, and wanderers through far-future mysteries, art, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: far future · art and identity · memory and self-discovery · quantum oddity · interstellar mystery · posthuman identity · journalist investigation
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1684
