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Motifs labels used: ghosts, mechanical animals, machines, spirits, memory loss, apprenticeship, city lights, train travel, science terms

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Mortal Engines: Astonishing Sci-Fi Tales About Artificial Intelligence and the Surprising Humanity of Sentient Machines

Stanisław Lem · 1992

A collection of robot fables turns fairy-tale forms into sci-fi satire about AI, power, and human nature.

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Motifs labels: robots · fables · fairy tales · myths · legends · mechanical imagery · scientific terminology · invented names · moral lessons · technical jargon · metal imagery · chemistry terms · physics terms

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Distance: 0.1875

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Revelation Space

Alastair Reynolds · 2002 · The Inhibitor Sequence

An archaeologist, an assassin, and a spacefaring crew converge around an extinct alien mystery with galaxy-shaking stakes.

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Motifs labels: plague · nanotechnology · cybernetics · relativity · lighthugger ships · ancient ruins · artifacts · haunted ship · ghost in the machine · machines merging with flesh · deep space · mystery object · big ship · baroque horror

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Distance: 0.1878

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Distant Waves

Suzanne Weyn · 2009

A young woman in a family of spiritualists is drawn toward science, romance, and a doomed voyage on the Titanic.

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Motifs labels: ghosts · mediums · visions · predictions · time travel · Tesla inventions · Titanic · fate · name-dropping · historical cameos

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Distance: 0.1881

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Now Wait for Last Year

Philip K. Dick · 1966

A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.

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Motifs labels: time travel drug · parallel universes · multiple selves · artificial organs · robots · flying cabs · illness · hypochondria · alternate realities · political sickness

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Distance: 0.1891

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Cleave the Sparrow

Jonathan Katz · 2025

A chaotic near-future satire sends a drugged president, a brainy mentor, and a cult-filled campaign chasing reality itself.

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Motifs labels: quantum physics · brain machine · time travel · nuclear weapons · suicide · cults · machine elves · monads · dialogue interruptions · illustrations

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Distance: 0.1900

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Everwild

Neal Shusterman · 2009 · The Skinjacker Trilogy

In a limbo for dead children, rival leaders, new powers, and family-seeking quests drive a dangerous afterlife war.

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Motifs labels: light and tunnel · chocolate · ghosts · trains · Hindenburg · coin · limbo · body possession · dead spots · vortex · sky imagery · propaganda

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Distance: 0.1923

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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu · 2016

A curated anthology of contemporary Chinese sci-fi stories, with essays that frame the field’s themes, history, and debates.

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Motifs labels: rats · robots · ghosts · cities · time · language · folding city · storytelling · tourism · essays · translations · orbital/planetary imagery

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Distance: 0.1934

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I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

Ray Bradbury · 1998

A mixed-genre Bradbury story collection where robots, memory, Mars, and literary ghosts probe love, loss, and being human.

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Motifs labels: robots · electricity · poetry · machines · Mars · historical figures · literary allusion · twilight zone mood · small towns · summer · travel · voice · doors · houses · night calls

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Distance: 0.1943

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A Tale of Time City

Diana Wynne Jones · 2002

A WWII evacuee is abducted into Time City, where she must help repair history before both her home and the city unravel.

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Motifs labels: time ghosts · butter pies · caskets · ghosts · chronology · clocks · trains · evacuee train · walls · bizarre clothing · androids · ceremonies · time locks · pajamas

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Distance: 0.1945

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The Truth and Other Stories

Stanisław Lem · 2021

Twelve chronologically arranged Lem stories probe alien contact, AI, and human limits with irony, dread, and invention.

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Motifs labels: mirrors · labyrinths · machines · robots · asylum · sun · future prediction · evolution · cosmology · spores · brain · language

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Distance: 0.1947

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The Breakthrough

Daphne du Maurier · 2018

An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.

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Motifs labels: energy · soul · spirit · death · machines · electronics · dog imagery · classical references · weather · coast

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Distance: 0.1952

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The World of Null-A

A.E. van Vogt · 2002 · Null-A

An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.

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Motifs labels: machine · games · false memory · extra brain · multiple bodies · telepathy · telekinesis · lie detector · cliffhanger · map and territory · binary thinking · utopian Venus

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Distance: 0.1965

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