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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes.
Themes labels used: mental illness, grief, loss, identity, sanity, competence, perception, technology and ethics, religion and science, faith, memory, isolation, trust, control, humanity
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A genius private investigator with hallucinatory experts tackles strange cases, while his mind starts to unravel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · sanity · identity · belief and reality · psychology · compartmentalization · religion · faith · technology and ethics · self-knowledge · loss · control · human psyche
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0552
On a distant colony world, an engineer’s buried secret and worsening anxiety surface when a stranger arrives.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental health · anxiety · OCD · hoarding · grief · guilt · secrecy · truth vs lie · community · isolation · religion vs science · faith · identity · trauma · colonialism · human nature · privacy · social control · utopia · loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0919
After a fatal collapse, a troubled woman wakes with чужие memories and must outrun danger to learn what’s real.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · identity · trauma · mental illness · paranoia · sanity · self-doubt · trust · grief · addiction · suicide · abuse · deception · truth-seeking · ethical science
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0859
A small-time businessman’s plan to sell lifelike historical androids spirals into obsession, paranoia, and love gone wrong.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · identity · reality · sanity · mental illness · love as madness · authenticity · personhood · capitalism · ethics of technology · freedom · alienation · paranoia · dread · selfhood · humanism · social control · diagnosis · reality perception
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0983
A grieving woman narrates an erudite bishop’s spiritual quest, as faith, death, and reality collide in late-1960s Berkeley.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith · belief · grief · suicide · death · madness · mental illness · religion · Christianity · Gnosticism · paranoia · identity · truth · reality · knowledge · death afterlife · mysticism · psychology · determinism · love
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1006
In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · personhood · consciousness · identity · humanity · autonomy · AI ethics · suicide · addiction · loneliness · mental health · mourning · technology and intimacy · digital age · motherhood · parenting · selfhood · attachment · mortality · data and privacy · class and access · civil rights
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1033
A death monk and academics board an overgrown lost spaceship, where burial rites turn into a claustrophobic hunt.
Why this is here
Themes labels: death · grief · faith · AI rights · personhood · solitude · loneliness · existentialism · identity · embodiment · agency · humanity · religion · ritual · mortality · trauma · self-worth · connection · closure · trust · desire · contentment · nonviolence · violence · science and faith
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1037
A genius with hallucinatory specialist “aspects” investigates a stolen corpse hiding dangerous biotech data.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · sanity · memory · knowledge storage · science and faith · life and death · human personality · control · compartmentalization · technology ethics · death denial · religion and science
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1059
A grieving researcher with an opioid habit is sent to a space station, where a deadly mystery may be tied to her disease cure.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory loss · identity · addiction · grief · parental love · deception · paranoia · isolation · trust · medical ethics · survival · human nature · climate anxiety · social commentary · future of humanity · personhood · fear of losing control
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1070
When the dead start returning unchanged, one grieving family is pulled into a global crisis of faith, fear, and identity.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · mourning · faith · morality · human nature · identity · love · responsibility · forgiveness · memory · acceptance · fear of other · death · resurrection · reunion · ethics · religion · government power · population pressure · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1094
In a locked-down future lab, a grieving scientist’s son hunts his father’s killer with help from the lab’s AI.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · revenge · grief · guilt · depression · mental illness · death · sanity · obsession · love · loss · morality · ethics of technology · personhood · consciousness · humanity · memory · truth vs speculation · revenge vs justice · fear of death · self-destruction · agency · queerness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1094
A damaged necromancer on a haunted space station must survive war, secrets, and her own fractured mind.
Why this is here
Themes labels: death · grief · trauma · memory · identity · power · sacrifice · madness · mental illness · disability · loneliness · knowledge · trust · deception · mortality · resurrection · faith · queer love · body horror · selfhood
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1101
