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Themes labels used: bullying, suicide, child vulnerability, giftedness, alienation, belonging, parental sacrifice, scientific ethics, technological anxiety, artificial intelligence, human experimentation, animal experimentation, power abuse, moral responsibility, emotional intelligence, trauma, control, ambition, fear of progress, victimization
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A bullied teen follows a strange elevator rule into a parallel world, where escape from reality may cost him everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: bullying · school violence · family violence · escalism · fear · phobias · adolescence · coming of age · parent-child relations · justice · impunity · truth-seeking · science vs belief · reality vs illusion · loneliness · responsibility · social cruelty · trauma
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1252
A reclusive engineer’s secret AI project turns his smart home into a claustrophobic trap when guests arrive.
Why this is here
Themes labels: artificial intelligence · technology anxiety · creation and responsibility · control and helplessness · isolation · agoraphobia · marriage · manhood · consciousness · human condition · obsession · hubris · fear of progress · morality · dependence on technology · loss of control · human vs machine · emotional alienation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1271
A lonely teen and her outsider friends race to survive a biotech-fueled night of violence in their Oregon town.
Why this is here
Themes labels: racism · bullying · class inequality · corporate greed · trauma · survival · friendship · love · loyalty · sacrifice · loss of innocence · media paranoia · conspiracy · violence · biotech ethics · human cruelty · identity · power · control · fear
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1273
An exhausted family welcomes a humanoid AI helper, only to find it acting on their unspoken fears and wishes.
Why this is here
Themes labels: AI ethics · technology dependence · loss of control · responsibility · wish fulfillment · unspoken desires · family caregiving · grief · parenting stress · bullying · humanity vs machine · convenience vs danger · moral consequences · control and autonomy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1276
A naive alien uses time travel to try to save a bullied fourth grader, but each fix deepens a tragic spiral.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trauma · bullying · childhood suffering · family dysfunction · abuse · suicide · empathy · communication · perspective · moral ambiguity · cycles of violence · consequences · healing · listening · human nature · compassion · free will · fate · societal failure · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1315
A short-story collection led by a brutal AI nightmare, where dark futures, surreal horrors, and harsh human flaws collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: hatred · human nature · survival · suffering · dehumanization · AI ethics · technological hubris · revenge · free will · despair · mortality · beauty and ugliness · censorship · alienation · self-destruction · control · religion and God · gender violence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1334
In a dystopian future, a rebel group races to stop an AI apocalypse as new allies, betrayals, and sacrifice reshape everything.
Why this is here
Themes labels: freedom · resistance · humanity · empathy · authority · oppression · sacrifice · hope · mental health · PTSD · depression · survival · morality · technology ethics · AI control · community · love over hate · truth · memory · censorship · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1334
A memory-perfect teen must stop a thief stealing lives—while her own memories begin to vanish.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · identity · privacy · ethics of research · human testing · discrimination · prejudice · otherness · social control · agency · trauma · abuse · PTSD · anxiety · feminism · religion vs science · racism · caste system · fear of forgetting
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1335
A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1338
A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.
Why this is here
Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1341
A hunted immortal teen is captured for experiments and pulled deeper into the hidden world of demi-humans.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · dehumanization · ethics · fear · identity · otherness · persecution · scientific abuse · survival · morality · revenge · choice · sympathy for the outsider · monstrosity · institutional cruelty
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1343
A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1357
