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Themes labels used: memory and identity, survival, trauma, dementia allegory, reality vs delusion, truth and uncertainty, freedom vs survival, authority and control, morality under pressure, loneliness, coping mechanisms, loss, human resilience, value of memory, environmental disaster

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Cover of Funes el Memorioso by Jorge Luis Borges

Funes el Memorioso

Jorge Luis Borges · 1988

A man cursed with perfect memory discovers that remembering everything can make thought, sleep, and ordinary life nearly impossible.

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Themes labels: memory · forgetting · thinking · abstraction · generalization · identity · perception · language · knowledge · consciousness · human limitation · time · mortality · mental overload · information overload · loneliness · intelligence vs memory · body and mind · pain and limitation · subjectivity

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Distance: 0.1170

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The Chimes

Anna Smaill · 2015

In a music-ruled London where memory resets daily, a young outsider pursues the truth and a way to change everything.

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Themes labels: memory · collective memory · forgetting · language suppression · music and power · freedom vs control · identity · truth-seeking · history and record · knowledge and ignorance · trauma and loss · community vs individual · memory and self

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Distance: 0.1068

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There Is No Antimemetics Division

qntm, Sam Hughes · 2020

A secret division fights reality-devouring ideas that erase themselves from memory, making the war almost impossible to know.

Why this is here

Themes labels: memory · identity · perception · epistemological uncertainty · ignorance as safety · knowledge and danger · reality and illusion · trauma · sacrifice · humanity · containment ethics · information control · cultural forgetting · existential dread · ecological destruction · climate change · neofascism · internet enshittification · conspiracy thinking · addiction

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Distance: 0.1072

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Light Chaser

Peter F. Hamilton, Gareth L. Powell · 2021

A near-immortal space traveler collecting memory stories uncovers a time-bending message that could change human civilization.

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Themes labels: memory as identity · identity · love · hope · trust · stagnation · change · freedom · humanity · civilization control · revolution · memory and self · time · choice · safety vs progress · survival

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Distance: 0.1136

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The Strange Case of Jane O.

Karen Thompson Walker · 2025

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

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Distance: 0.1146

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Cover of Dragon Day by Bob Proehl

Dragon Day

Bob Proehl · 2025

A journalist records survivor interviews as dragons erupt worldwide, chasing the truth, her missing son, and a way to stop them.

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Themes labels: survival · hope · trauma · catastrophe response · human resilience · cost of survival · family protection · truth seeking · record keeping · collective memory · war and destruction · government failure · fear · loss · leadership · identity politics · science versus chaos

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Cold Earth

Sarah Moss · 2009

Six archaeologists in remote Greenland face a failing expedition, a distant pandemic, and possible ghosts in their camp.

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Themes labels: survival · isolation · grief · loss · fear · human frailty · mental health · memory · death · survival instinct · belief vs rationality · group dynamics · communication breakdown · pandemic anxiety · history and present

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Distance: 0.1172

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Cover of The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith

The Marbury Lens

Andrew Smith · 2010 · The Marbury Lens

After a kidnapping, a teen discovers glasses that reveal a brutal alternate world tied to his unraveling mind.

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Themes labels: trauma · PTSD · sanity · identity · victimhood · survival · addiction · good and evil · reality vs hallucination · memory loss · fear · coping · sexuality · homophobia · male vulnerability

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Distance: 0.1183

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Cover of Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

Sparks Rise

Alexandra Bracken · 2014 · The Darkest Minds

A short, dark interquel follows a camp survivor as a brainwashed childhood friend returns and a dangerous rescue unfolds.

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Themes labels: survival · hope · despair · memory · identity · brainwashing · trauma · loss of innocence · resistance · powerlessness · loyalty · sacrifice · compassion · fear and control

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Cover of After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia by Ellen Datlow

After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

Ellen Datlow · 2012 · Across the Universe

Nineteen YA short stories imagine what survives after collapse, from plague and war to monsters, walls, and strange new orders.

Why this is here

Themes labels: survival · social control · trust · identity · humanity · resilience · control vs freedom · state violence · media manipulation · class inequality · recovery · otherness · fear of difference · morality after catastrophe · community · trauma · hope · redemption · belief systems · resource scarcity

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Distance: 0.1194

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