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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
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
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
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
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
A psychiatrist and a new mother untangle a strange case of missing time, uncanny memories, and reality-bending doubts.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · identity · fate · reality · consciousness · trauma · motherhood · loneliness · loss · grief · time · free will · precognition · truth and perception · limits of diagnosis · mental illness · reliability · love · pandemic
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1126
A surreal short story collection where bizarre premises reveal love, loss, faith, and human longing.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loss · longing · family · faith · aging · death · euthanasia · connection · compassion · loneliness · identity · humanity · social critique · technology · time · change · morality · isolation · self-sacrifice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1130
An annotated fictional memoir follows a traumatized researcher in an alternate 20th century as memory becomes a tool of control.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · truth · complicity · grief · trauma · family · attachment · loneliness · social control · censorship · history · moral responsibility · survival · identity · isolation · utopia and price · scientific ethics · mind control · conspiracy · human connection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1142
A classic short-fiction collection of poetic SF tales spanning alien oceans, terraformers, sentient cars, and doomed romance.
Why this is here
Themes labels: human condition · loneliness · time · change · mortality · love · loss · grief · sentience · identity · ethics of interference · humanity · civilization · curiosity · ambition · faith · religion · translation · ecology · evolution
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1143
A lonely boy grows up amid disappearances and family secrets, chasing clues to his grandfather and a possible other world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · mental illness · loneliness · identity · belonging · disconnection · trauma · family dysfunction · reality vs delusion · memory · transformation · isolation · otherness · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1147
A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · authenticity · consciousness · human nature · mortality · immortality · madness · language · representation · memory · selfhood · ethics · scientific ethics · philosophy of mind · body-mind relationship · truth · forgery · soul
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1156
A snarky death-replacement agent who can resurrect is framed for murder and hunts a killer before her next death becomes final.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · discrimination · religious intolerance · mortality · death and rebirth · agency and choice · memory loss · sanity · trust · control · corruption · sexuality · self-acceptance · ethics of rescue · outsider status
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1156
An amnesiac Cambridge professor in a psychiatric ward drifts through visions, letters, and memory as reality fractures.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · sanity and madness · identity · memory · recovery · reality perception · social conformity · self-knowledge · human condition · trauma · war trauma · empathy · psychiatric treatment · selfhood · collective consciousness · connectedness · ecology · civilization critique · human nature · truth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1159
A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reality perception · mental health · belief · ambiguity · trauma · human nature · hope · healing · social criticism · utopia · sanity and madness · compassion · identity · alienation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1166
A grieving streamer is trapped in a VR horror game where death resets everything except the killer’s obsession.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · mental health · fear · survival · identity · manipulation · conditioning · consent · trauma · obsession · possessiveness · trust · control · co-dependency · sanity · reality vs simulation · humanity of NPCs · memory · adaptation · connection · loss
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1167
A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loneliness · humanity · personhood · loss · hope · compassion · faith · grief · class · inequality · technology · ethics · sacrifice · identity · social isolation · parenting · mortality · belonging
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1170
A Christian missionary to an alien colony fights to keep his marriage alive as Earth and Oasis drift toward crisis.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith · love · loss · humanity · alienation · communication · miscommunication · colonialism · responsibility · compassion · belief · doubt · mortality · grief · empathy · identity · addiction · translation · otherness · apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1177
