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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Ender's Shadow.
Motifs labels used: shadow, games, battle school, computer games, language, street gangs, food scarcity, smallness, mirroring, parallelism, aliens
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A gifted child is taken to a space battle school where games, pressure, and war become dangerously real.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: games · zero gravity · battle room · simulation · headset · internet · nakedness · hive mind · enemy · bugs · tests · strategic play · school
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1814
An alien-hunting teen races to stop a video-game-powered mind-control scheme before brainwashed kids destroy Earth.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: video games · brainwashing · The List · aliens in disguise · teleportation · shape-shifting · imagined companions · time travel · battle training · short chapters
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1842
An amnesiac future man enters a machine-run competition and is pulled into a conspiracy that could remake Earth, Venus, and identity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: machine · games · false memory · extra brain · multiple bodies · telepathy · telekinesis · lie detector · cliffhanger · map and territory · binary thinking · utopian Venus
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1890
A teen security trainee hiding a fake death must outwit aliens and a murderous ex-friend before rescue arrives.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: shadow blobs · Terracotta Warriors · Q-net · worming · advanced technology · aliens · statues · security procedures · banter · cliffhangers · space travel · time travel
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1891
On a ruined Earth, a suicidal landowner loses a city in a game of bluffing and gets pulled into a wider alien conspiracy.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: board game · bluffing · telepathy · precognition · psychokinesis · simulacra · talking machines · flying cars · hallucinatory drugs · memory gaps · shapeshifting
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1931
After decades of war, a nurse and a telepathic officer finish an unusual chess game that could test whether peace can last.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: chess · telepathy · thought-reading · uniforms · nakedness · stories · hospital ward · randomness · games
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1959
Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl team up to stop a video-game-powered villain while hiding their secret identities.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: video games · coding · computer science · squirrels · secret identities · footnotes · commentary boxes · bright colors · virtual reality
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1968
Hari Seldon’s rise, psychohistory’s birth, and imperial intrigue collide with AI debates in a sprawling Foundation prequel.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: sims · robots · Mesh · psychohistory · wormholes · aliens · philosophical debate · memory · digital personas · chimpanzees · pans · internet
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2003
A long-running manga epilogue sends its hero back into childhood to uncover the final truth behind a world-ending conspiracy.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: symbol · masks · virtual reality · robots · virus · pandemic · bowling · rock music · songs · childhood games · memories · predictions · cult imagery
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2020
A posthuman master thief races through the Solar System to save allies and stop a reality-shaping war.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: games · quantum entanglement · copied selves · virtual worlds · simulations · heists · wings · ships · jewels · dragons · gogols · metaphor-heavy jargon · Solar System politics
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2023
A space-faring Peacemaker team hunts a kidnapping-and-slavery conspiracy while juggling upgrades, banter, and danger.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: chips · AI · space battles · sword · armor · fuel · wealth · snark · jokes · alien species
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2053
A diver navigates a seductive virtual world and a dangerous rescue mission where freedom, identity, and reality blur.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: mirrors · labyrinth · depth · avatars · masks · games · modems · virtual sex · alcohol · dreamlike immersion · binary chapter numbering · Doom references
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2071
