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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!.
Motifs labels used: birds, light, music, walking, films, leaves, shoes on concrete, home, recycling, reduce reuse recycle, Descartes, books, vacation, factory signage, The Wizard of Oz, forever
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
A skeptical American journalist visits a breakaway eco-nation and slowly questions his own values.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: recycling · cycling · public transit · mini-cities · organic materials · biodegradable products · natural fibers · trees · wood · war games · journals · news reports · legal marijuana · sanitized waste · natural balance
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1952
A grieving Taiwanese professor and an island boy from a sacrifice tradition are thrown together by an ocean of trash.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: trash vortex · plastic waste · sea · mountains · rain · storms · waves · animals · birds · whales · seals · cat · compound eyes · memory · songs · folklore · myths · landscape imagery · spirits · islands · weather
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2003
A boy caring for his agoraphobic mother must survive as mysterious plants bring his London tower block to a standstill.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: tower · window · plants · spores · food scarcity · water scarcity · scrapbook · pigeons · salt · building collapse · helicopter · fireworks · maps · windowsill observation
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2019
After a family tragedy leaves a teen girl alone in an ash-covered world, she must survive grief and rediscover hope.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: gardening · plants · ashes · fire · thorns · tattoos · ravens · bats · roses · birds · hawks · dogs · ink · green · Ash
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Distance: 0.2105
A decaying far-future city is revisited through shifting stories, where memory, technology, and reality keep breaking apart.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: rust · mirrors · locusts · insect imagery · automata · robots · airships · swords · poetry · music · cafes · paints · horseheads · birds · metal · waste · bones · dreams · gardens · weathered surfaces
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Distance: 0.2120
Two cousins in opposite versions of the same split city try to contact each other and uncover what fractured their world.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: weather · snow · ice · heat · sunlight · windows · doors · bricked-up buildings · holes in walls · objects exchanged · kaleidoscope · tarot cards · diving suit · film · mirrors · light · tinkering · inventions
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2130
A scrappy spacer buys a moss-covered starship and discovers its sentient computer has as much baggage as she does.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: moss · plants · spaceship · life support · banter · humor · air quality · recycled air · abandonment · wormholes · aliens · technology
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2144
In a stratified future Beijing that literally folds by time, a low-level worker crosses class boundaries on a simple errand.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: folding city · time division · sunlight · air quality · trash · vertical layering · letters · food · music · art
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2146
In a hazy British dystopia, an unnamed narrator watches artists and solitary people survive escalating attacks on creativity.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · paintings · music · television · nature imagery · sea · countryside · gardens · dogs · memory loss · eyes · towers · letters
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2167
On an unnamed island, disappearing things erase memory itself, and one novelist risks everything to shelter a man who still remembers.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: disappearing objects · birds · roses · photographs · books · writing · typewriter · snow · river · bonfires · holes · uniforms
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2205
After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: radio · letters · emails · walking · railroad · bicycles · food scarcity · water scarcity · community garden · free trade · broadcasts · maps · batteries · sunset · songs
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2214
A slave boy with memory gifts flees betrayal and searches for freedom, home, and a self beyond his bondage.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: books · reading · memory · future sight · poetry · travel · home · silence · visibility · houses · cities · marshes · summer
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.2223
