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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

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Similar in themes

These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Assassin of Reality.

Themes labels used: fear, freedom, free will, agency, humanity, identity, self-actualization, language and reality, metaphysics, comprehension and incomprehension, love vs fear, collective vs individuality, truth and perception, mistakes and correction

Focused on “consequence” where exact label matches exist.

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.

Cover of Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko

Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2018 · Vita Nostra (English)

A coerced teen enters a terrifying secret school where studying remakes reality, identity, and the self.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.0722

Cover of Wakers by Orson Scott Card

Wakers

Orson Scott Card · 2022 · The Side Step Trilogy

A clone teen with the power to jump realities wakes alone on abandoned Earth and must solve why he was created.

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Themes labels: identity · choice · consequence · free will · morality · responsibility · selfhood · humanity · survival · loneliness · trust · reality · causality · multiple selves · purpose · sacrifice · love

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1170

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Caine's Law

Matthew Woodring Stover · 2012 · The Acts of Caine

A battered assassin is dragged into a reality-bending, god-warped final gamble that could remake everything.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1207

Cover of School of Shards by Marina Dyachenko

School of Shards

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2025 · Vita Nostra (English)

A magic-school provost must repair a reality she reshaped, training new students while speech itself begins to fail.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.0987

Cover of Alex + Ada, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Luna

Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1041

Cover of Quarantine by Greg Egan

Quarantine

Greg Egan · 1995

A bio-enhanced PI hunts a vanished woman in a quarantined solar system and stumbles into a reality-bending quantum mystery.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1053

Cover of Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Arclight

Josin L. McQuein · 2013 · Arclight

An amnesiac teen surviving in a light-protected refuge must unravel the truth about herself and the creatures beyond the dark.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1063

Cover of Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Exhalation

Ted Chiang · 2019

Nine idea-driven SF stories probe time, memory, AI, faith, and free will through inventive speculative scenarios.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1084

Cover of Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire

Tidal Creatures

Seanan McGuire · 2024 · Alchemical Journeys

Moon incarnations investigate a string of divine murders while alchemists scheme to seize the Impossible City.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1092

Cover of Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear · 2019 · White Space

A salvage engineer uncovers ancient alien tech and a conspiracy, forcing a run through deep space and into her own past.

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1108