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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Big Time.
Themes labels used: time as commodity, commodification, medical ethics, corporate greed, capitalism critique, identity, memory loss, aging, caregiving, moral responsibility, science and ethics, power imbalance
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A retired psychic detective is pulled into a corporate and alien-tech race when a billionaire receives an impossible flower.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate power · capitalism · politics · economics · environmental collapse · global warming · technology ethics · alien contact · identity · aging · change over time · social commentary · social control · information scarcity · moral ambiguity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1352
A Trauma Team medic must rescue a paying client who is also tied to her worst loss, forcing duty against revenge.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate capitalism · commodified care · human life value · ethics versus pragmatism · dehumanization · survivor guilt · trauma · PTSD · revenge · duty versus conscience · moral compromise · social inequality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1353
In a near-future world cured by implanted tapeworms, an amnesiac woman uncovers a frightening medical conspiracy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate greed · medical ethics · identity · memory loss · loss of autonomy · human experimentation · body autonomy · health and disease · science and morality · conspiracy
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1403
A studio turns a beloved fantasy franchise into a living world, where hidden truth, memory tech, and greed collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: capitalism · greed · ethics · identity · memory · performance · agency · free will · media criticism · fandom · authenticity · art vs commerce · exploitation · control · consent · technology · reality and illusion · morality · social commentary · corporate power
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1442
Miles audits a cryonics empire on a strange planet, uncovering corruption, kidnappings, and a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · cryonics ethics · technology and society · corporate power · corruption · grief · legacy · aging · death anxiety · identity · money and power · morality of survival · political control · resource inequality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1455
An indentured salvage pilot racing a terminal illness uncovers alien tech that could save her—or turn her into a weapon.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate greed · classism · capitalism critique · citizenship · debt slavery · indenture · healthcare access · terminal illness · truth and lies · loyalty · trust · war · genocide · humanity · colonization · privilege · power dynamics · immigration · dehumanization · morality · profit motive
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Distance: 0.1455
A terminally ill editor chooses cryogenic suspension, then wakes into a bleak future where survival has a dangerous price.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · aging · immortality · quality of life · life versus eternity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · capitalism · class divide · consumer capitalism · social control · surveillance · human connection · love and loss · meaning of life · death acceptance · commodification of life · technological progress · scientific hubris · ethical consent · social inequality · freedom · state ownership · existentialism · nihilism · identity loss · senescence
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Distance: 0.1474
A burned-out time salvager breaks the rules by rescuing a woman from the past, triggering a deadly chase across eras.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · environmental collapse · resource depletion · corporate greed · moral compromise · free will · cost of progress · time ethics · guilt · redemption · humanity's future · power and control · class divide · responsibility to history
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Distance: 0.1478
A Sleepless journalist probes his boss’s death in a near-future world where sleeplessness reshapes power, work, and memory.
Why this is here
Themes labels: Capitalism · Productivity · Hustle culture · Exploitation · Corporate greed · Inequality · Grief · Trauma · Mental health · Memory · Identity · Queerness · Bioethics · Technology ethics · Consumerism · Environmental impact · Social prejudice · Extremism · Public health · Humanity
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Distance: 0.1512
A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.
Why this is here
Themes labels: capitalism · commodification of bodies · humanity · personhood · class inequality · medical debt · corporate greed · body autonomy · ethics of enhancement · identity · family · addiction · consumerism · sports and society · science and morality · environmental collapse · racism · xenophobia · disability · freedom · surveillance · labor exploitation
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Distance: 0.1519
A traumatized, indebted AI expert investigates a murder on a remote asteroid mine and uncovers a deeper corporate conspiracy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: corporate greed · capitalism critique · unchecked capitalism · medical debt · indentured servitude · surveillance · trauma aftermath · PTSD · disability · body autonomy · AI ethics · consciousness · war crimes · genocide · class exploitation · human-machine boundary · privatized space · social commentary
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Distance: 0.1539
A genetically enhanced assassin gets an unexpected protection job in a brutal cyberpunk future full of secrets and danger.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · wealth inequality · capitalism · humanity · identity · morality · corruption · power imbalance · class divide · free will · emotional detachment · social commentary
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Distance: 0.1557
A troubled medical student joins a secretive nanotech institute and uncovers dangerous experiments hidden behind corporate secrecy.
Why this is here
Themes labels: medical ethics · scientific responsibility · corporate greed · human experimentation · secrecy · trust · control · ambition · foster care trauma · family estrangement · moral ambiguity · technology misuse
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Distance: 0.1557
A Hollywood millionaire obsessed with eternal life draws an English scholar into a caustic, idea-packed California satire.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mortality · immortality · aging · death · longevity · capitalism · materialism · consumerism · greed · wealth inequality · youth obsession · spirituality · mysticism · religion · ethics · human nature · self-interest · goodness · evil · meaning of life · personality and ego · social criticism · technology skepticism · science and ethics · modernity · nationalism · war · decadence · hubris · human folly · loneliness · time · transcendence · self-sufficiency · social responsibility · class power
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Distance: 0.1562
An archaeologist in a future Dominican Republic loses 40 years in a pocket world and returns to a changed, corporate-dominated reality.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · time · capitalism · colonialism · environmental collapse · climate crisis · commodification · exploitation · motherhood · redemption · hope · regret · scientific ethics · colonization of knowledge · personhood · resource extraction · consumerism · human greed · collective harm
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Distance: 0.1566
A hard-boiled PI on Mars investigates a missing man and a fossil-rush conspiracy amid android bodies and corruption.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · mortality · immortality · humanity · morality · greed · law and order · frontier life · technology ethics · consciousness · greed vs science · copy vs original · self-interest · social status
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Distance: 0.1575
A brilliant detective and her augmented assistant probe a seemingly simple murder that could spark civil war.
Why this is here
Themes labels: power dynamics · imperial power · agricultural exploitation · factory farming · food supply · resource scarcity · capitalism · overconsumption · consumption ethics · animal welfare · labor rights · sacrifice · autonomy · dignity · family duty · loneliness · history and legacy · social commentary · bioethics · systems of suffering
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1592
In a near-future collapse, survivalists and insiders race tech billionaires and hidden systems to change who gets through the end.
Why this is here
Themes labels: wealth inequality · corporate power · tech ethics · climate crisis · apocalypse · survival · community · trust · privacy · surveillance · social polarization · AI and consciousness · truth and lies · collective action · human responsibility · capitalism critique · moral sacrifice · hope and optimism · power transfer · religion and prophecy · biblical allegory · end times · control
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1603
In a future where immortality is normal, a brainwashed Surplus girl is pulled toward escape, truth, and rebellion.
Why this is here
Themes labels: immortality · death · aging · overpopulation · resource scarcity · freedom · human rights · social control · brainwashing · child abuse · identity · obedience · self-worth · ethics of science · nature vs technology · value of life · parental sacrifice · class hierarchy · state violence · love as redemption · environmental collapse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1609
Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · hope · mortality · ethics of technology · identity · memory · free will · predetermination · grief · social criticism · race · eugenics · capitalism · class privilege · parenting · nature vs nurture
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Distance: 0.1610
In a post-plague gerontocracy, a risk-averse elder gets rejuvenated and rediscovers youth, art, and freedom.
Why this is here
Themes labels: aging · life extension · mortality · identity · authenticity · art · creativity · humanity · posthumanity · freedom · security · risk · safety · power · social control · inequality · class stratification · generational conflict · healthcare ethics · medical ethics · aesthetic philosophy · self-discovery · rebellion · societal stagnation · consequences of longevity · memory · body-mind relation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1612
A 12-year-old criminal genius kidnaps a fairy to ransom her gold, igniting a hidden-world siege.
Why this is here
Themes labels: ethics · greed · family wealth · power · environmentalism · moral ambiguity · coming of age · identity · gender roles · human-nature conflict
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Distance: 0.1626
In a corporate debt-dystopia, a girl marked for a livestreamed hunt may fall for the assassin sent to kill her.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · sacrifice · love under pressure · capitalism · debt · climate change · class inequality · corporate power · dehumanization · trauma · memory and identity · bodily autonomy · misogyny · objectification · hope · compassion · social commentary · oppression · consumerism · technological control · parental abandonment
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1631
In 1980s San Francisco, a young computer-obsessed dropout becomes a forensic accountant amid startup war and tech corruption.
Why this is here
Themes labels: capitalism critique · technology and power · interoperability · lock-in · consumer exploitation · corporate greed · ethics · coming of age · queer liberation · women in tech · religion and business · social critique · class conflict · fraud · embezzlement · self-discovery · identity formation · economics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1631
