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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Nine Billion Names of God.
Themes labels used: existentialism, faith, technology, knowledge, God, human hubris, cosmic insignificance, apocalypse, meaning, science and religion, truth and belief, limits of understanding
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
An uploaded man and his allies race to stop an ancient cosmic enemy threatening all intelligent life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · mortality · immortality · posthumanism · evolution · humanity · existential anxiety · cosmology · meaning of life · faith and godhood · alien contact · technology and society · human folly · knowledge and ignorance · theory and speculation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1096
A journalist investigates global disappearances as math, physics, and reality itself begin to fail.
Why this is here
Themes labels: apocalypse · uncertainty · reality failure · math and meaning · science and belief · human insignificance · coincidence · existential dread · knowledge limits · interconnectedness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1155
A dying atheist scientist awakens in an afterlife and debates a god-like Voice over eternity, purpose, and knowledge.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · existentialism · meaning of life · purpose · infinity · eternity · knowledge · consciousness · afterlife · God · free will · human will · faith and atheism · limits of perception · death
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1183
Across eons, humanity keeps asking a supercomputer if entropy can be reversed before the universe runs out of time.
Why this is here
Themes labels: entropy · mortality · immortality · cosmic pessimism · cosmic scale · existential questions · meaning of existence · science and faith · creation and creationism · human limits · resource scarcity · energy limits · technological dependence · transhumanism · evolution · knowledge and ignorance · information and entropy · beginning and end · apocalypse · hope and despair
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1220
A stranded space voyage turns into a poetic meditation on survival, memory, and humanity after Earth’s ruin.
Why this is here
Themes labels: existentialism · hopelessness · meaninglessness · human condition · mortality · memory · loss · technological hubris · nuclear devastation · ecological collapse · religion · cults · alienation · despair · survival · illusion · memory vs reality · anti-anthropocentrism · scientific limits · language limits
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1233
An atheist paleontologist and a theistic alien debate whether the universe’s history points to a creator.
Why this is here
Themes labels: science and religion · faith and reason · open-mindedness · mortality · meaning of life · evolution · creation · intelligent design · cosmic purpose · belief · skepticism · ethics · human exceptionalism · truth seeking
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1285
A planetary engineer follows a clue to a mysterious flat world and uncovers a cosmic secret behind its creation.
Why this is here
Themes labels: creation · cosmology · existential questions · belief · religion · humanity · diversity · history · civilization · life extension · mortality · technology and myth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1349
In a multiverse-spanning quest, a large cast races to decode a missing map before reality itself unravels.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith and science · religion and science · cosmology · creation · free will · intelligent design · good versus evil · truth seeking · purpose · universe · apocalypse · friendship · family · choice · knowledge
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1389
A devout man dies into a library-hell and must find the one book that perfectly tells his life to escape.
Why this is here
Themes labels: meaning · faith · religious doubt · mortality · infinity · time · hope · despair · human connection · identity · free will · existentialism · nihilism · uncertainty · memory · purpose · salvation · punishment · homogeneity · otherness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1396
On a remote island where reality thins, rival factions race to stop or trigger an apocalypse unleashed by ancient monsters.
Why this is here
Themes labels: apocalypse · cosmic insignificance · faith and fanaticism · belief versus skepticism · free will · reality instability · identity · survival · destiny · loss · reckoning with past · technology versus horror · humanity versus monsters · end times
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1399
A limbless artist journeys through a post-nuclear wasteland to find a new god and paint his image for a rival church.
Why this is here
Themes labels: religion · theodicy · faith · Christianity · gnosticism · mythmaking · art and representation · good and evil · meaning-making · survival · technology and religion · free will · postwar civilization · apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1402
An ordinary Earthman is swept into an absurd intergalactic odyssey after Earth’s destruction.
Why this is here
Themes labels: absurdism · existentialism · meaning of life · human insignificance · cosmic randomness · satire · identity · language · power · bureaucracy · knowledge · technology · philosophical inquiry
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1404
