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Premise labels used: afterlife exploration, death investigation, near-death experience, scientific experiment, postmortem journey, continent of the dead
Setting labels used: near future, France, afterlife, heaven, earth-based future, scientific institution
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
Forty brief afterlife vignettes turn death into a set of witty, unsettling thought experiments about life and self.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife variations · post-death scenarios · thought experiments · what if
Setting labels: afterlife · heaven · hell · metaphysical · cosmic · dreamlike · alternate realities · future-oriented · human world reflection
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2005
A man racing toward oblivion must use his final reincarnations to reach perfection and stay with Death, his true love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: reincarnation · immortality quest · love across lifetimes · death personified · search for perfection · endless lives · cosmic romance
Setting labels: afterlife · past and future · ancient India · outer space · Renaissance Italy · present day · distant future · science-fiction futures · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2017
In a near-future Argentina, the dead can return in purchased bodies, but revenge and identity complicate survival.
Why this is here
Premise labels: body transfer · digital afterlife · consciousness upload · immortality · reincarnation · corpse reuse · body commodification
Setting labels: near future · Argentina · internet-based afterlife · dystopian society · urban everyday life · post-death society
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2153
An ex-astronaut investigates a string of mysterious deaths, uncovering a puzzle of chance, causality, and probability.
Why this is here
Premise labels: investigation · mysterious deaths · unexplained deaths · series of deaths · chance and causality · probability puzzle · detective mission · former astronaut detective · private detective · scientific inquiry · philosophical mystery · alternative explanation · conspiracy or coincidence
Setting labels: futuristic Italy · near future · Italy · Naples · Rome · Paris · health spa · airport · hallucinatory world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2166
A dying world and a memory-bound afterlife collide as one woman’s struggle in Antarctica reshapes the fate of the dead.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife city · memory survival · plague aftermath · last survivor · liminal afterlife · dead remembered by living
Setting labels: afterlife city · Antarctica · near future · post apocalyptic world · research station · liminal space · earthbound collapse
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2215
A grieving husband journeys through the afterlife to find his wife and challenge the boundaries of death, love, and faith.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife · love beyond death · rescue mission · quest to reunite · death and reunion
Setting labels: afterlife · heaven · hell · purgatory · spiritual realms · Summerland · future life · earth after death · metaphysical reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2217
A dying man meets God and is given a startling explanation of life, identity, and reincarnation.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife · reincarnation · meaning of life · divine dialogue · existential inquiry · cosmic identity
Setting labels: afterlife · post-death · cosmic · universe · timeless
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2260
In a future ice age, explorers uncover the buried Louvre and struggle to interpret humanity through its artworks.
Why this is here
Premise labels: archaeological expedition · lost civilization · future ice age · art interpretation · museum discovery · post-apocalyptic exploration
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic · ice age · snow-covered world · Paris · Louvre · buried museum · frozen landscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2269
In a post-death future, a man’s search for truth forces him to question immortality, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: cure for death · immortality · memory loss · mortality crisis · existential journey · post-death society · questioning immortality · search for truth
Setting labels: Far future · Post-apocalyptic world · Immortal enclave · Mountaintop refuge · Dystopian future · Dead world · Closed community · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2269
A dying atheist scientist awakens in an afterlife and debates a god-like Voice over eternity, purpose, and knowledge.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife · death · eternity · philosophical dialogue · existential problem · knowledge quest · purpose
Setting labels: afterlife · metaphysical space · eternal existence · cosmic reality · unknown place
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2270
A resurrected explorer must navigate an endless alien river where all humanity has returned to uncover who made it and why.
Why this is here
Premise labels: afterlife mystery · mass resurrection · alien experiment · endless river · search for answers · second chance · historical figures · postmortem society
Setting labels: alien planet · endless river · river valley · afterlife world · artificial world · post-death setting · alternate Earth · prehistoric to future mix · nonhuman presence
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2279
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
Setting labels: near-future Earth · far future · space colonies · interstellar space · alien megastructure · cosmic frontier
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2279
