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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Locklands.
Themes labels used: free will, control, sacrifice, grief, empathy, power corruption, community, identity, humanity, hope, utopia vs dystopia, technology and society, good vs evil, cost of survival
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
In an immortal future ruled by AI and licensed death, two teens train as scythe apprentices.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · morality · ethics · humanity · death · power · corruption · population control · free will · justice · empathy · utopia · social order · identity · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0672
A hunted hacker must choose between a beloved genius and a ruthless rebel to stop a mind-controlling tech plan.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · ethics of technology · control · trust · morality · human connection · grief · identity · choice · power · survival · loyalty · redemption · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0768
Trapped in a deadly digital survival game, Min and Noah must navigate shifting alliances, secrets, and ruthless choices.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · morality · humanity · leadership · power · choice · trust · betrayal · free will · social collapse · community · identity · sacrifice · violence · good vs evil · corruption · parental control · resilience
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0796
A failed escape lands a teen prisoner in a grotesque transformation into the monster he fears most.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · humanity · free will · control · resistance · hope · survival · memory · corruption · power · good and evil · trauma · choice · friendship · moral integrity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0808
A trans woman in an alien-made utopia spirals after her wife remakes herself, then sets out on a strange quest.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · identity · transformation · free will · autonomy · community · memory · mortality · love · loss · acceptance · pain · happiness · toxic positivity · utopia vs dystopia · ethics · consent · self-determination · change · humanity · post-scarcity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0842
Six strangers wake in a bunker after a world-ending event and must solve a survival experiment with hidden motives.
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Themes labels: survival · trust · humanity · greater good · free will · control · moral choice · hope · identity · memory · loyalty · friendship · family · integrity · individual vs collective · ethics of salvation · technology and power · human condition · restoring civilization · good vs evil
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0906
A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · humanity · artificial intelligence · slavery · rebellion · choice · morality · power and control · personhood · family · survival · grief · trauma · ethics of creation · freedom · trust
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0916
A galaxy-spanning race to stop a dream-born pilgrimage into a reality-devouring Void unfolds beside a parallel tale inside it.
Why this is here
Themes labels: evolution · fulfillment · utopia · anti-utopia · religion · faith · free will · individualism · collective consciousness · responsibility · power · dominion · sacrifice · hope · ennui · identity · change · survival · moral choice · technology and society
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0917
After a town-wide revelation, Ethan Burke must help Wayward Pines survive when its defenses fail and the outside threat pours in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · control · survival · humanity · compassion · moral choice · authority · obedience · truth versus safety · family · loyalty · personal sovereignty · sacrifice · consequences · human nature
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0935
A hard-SF short story collection where alien POVs, AI, faith, and bleak futures probe what makes us human.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · consciousness · identity · faith · religion · morality · guilt · human nature · alienness · technology · evolution · surveillance · dystopia · environmental collapse · conviction · fear · redemption · truth · social utility · subjective reality · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0947
A hidden human teen on an alien space station is thrust into a galaxy-spanning chase that tests intelligence, freedom, and identity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · belonging · free will · determinism · order and chaos · intelligence · consciousness · personhood · truth and deception · survival · authority · control · community · individualism · species survival · human nature · perspective · moral choice · technology and power
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0961
A poisoned spy infiltrates a powerful enhanced super-soldier’s circle and falls for the one man she can’t kill.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · identity · free will · autonomy · loneliness · touch starvation · corruption · power and money · humanity vs weaponry · trauma · trust · vulnerability · control · resistance · surveillance · authoritarianism · state power · corporate power · moral ambiguity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0963
