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Themes labels used: science and religion, faith and reason, open-mindedness, mortality, meaning of life, evolution, creation, intelligent design, cosmic purpose, belief, skepticism, ethics, human exceptionalism, truth seeking
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In a multiverse-spanning quest, a large cast races to decode a missing map before reality itself unravels.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith and science · religion and science · cosmology · creation · free will · intelligent design · good versus evil · truth seeking · purpose · universe · apocalypse · friendship · family · choice · knowledge
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0814
An uploaded man and his allies race to stop an ancient cosmic enemy threatening all intelligent life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · consciousness · mortality · immortality · posthumanism · evolution · humanity · existential anxiety · cosmology · meaning of life · faith and godhood · alien contact · technology and society · human folly · knowledge and ignorance · theory and speculation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1080
A future-set, controversial novel follows an atheist scientist drawn into a strange experiment, desire, and unsettling questions of faith.
Why this is here
Themes labels: atheism · faith vs reason · science vs religion · free will · reincarnation · karma · identity · human evolution · future ethics · gender objectification · desire · temptation · existential crisis · creation vs evolution · skepticism · mortality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1094
A teenage math prodigy is sent to decode an alien signal at a secret research site full of eccentric Nobel laureates.
Why this is here
Themes labels: reason and faith · science and mysticism · mathematics · logic · language · knowledge limits · truth and perception · human mind · genius and insanity · meaning making · epistemology · objective truth · mortality · purpose · modern science · superstition · human comprehension
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1131
A planetary engineer follows a clue to a mysterious flat world and uncovers a cosmic secret behind its creation.
Why this is here
Themes labels: creation · cosmology · existential questions · belief · religion · humanity · diversity · history · civilization · life extension · mortality · technology and myth
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1141
A delivery man debates an all-knowing old man about God, reality, free will, and probability in a mind-bending dialogue.
Why this is here
Themes labels: god · free will · consciousness · reality · perception · delusion · probability · belief systems · truth-seeking · meaning of life · religion and science · knowledge limits · skepticism · human arrogance · illusion · creation · evolution · morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1154
A Discworld frame story and popular-science essay collection collide in a trial over a created universe and the nature of belief.
Why this is here
Themes labels: belief · rationalism · scientific method · cosmology · creation · existence · humanism · religion · faith · knowledge · truth · big science · psychology of belief · history of science · change of mind
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1185
A nameless man’s mind leaves Earth to explore the universe, meeting alien civilizations and a possible creator.
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Themes labels: meaning of existence · creation · collective consciousness · unity and individuality · religion and spirituality · cosmic scale · evolution · civilizational rise and fall · war and peace · politics · utopia · suffering · the nature of God
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1270
A monastery uses a computer to finish an ancient sacred task, and the result changes how the sky is seen.
Why this is here
Themes labels: existentialism · faith · technology · knowledge · God · human hubris · cosmic insignificance · apocalypse · meaning · science and religion · truth and belief · limits of understanding
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1285
Rival riverboats race upriver through a resurrected world, seeking the tower and the truth behind humanity’s return.
Why this is here
Themes labels: identity · human nature · morality · ethics · spirituality · religion · philosophy · soul · resurrection · salvation · free will · knowledge seeking · meaning of life · human change · civilization building · history and modernity · consciousness · authority and obedience
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1297
A PhD student finds a cursed rare book and is pulled into a mind-travel mystery about reality, time, and thought.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consciousness · identity · reality · free will · meaning of life · death · love · faith · religion · science and religion · philosophy · quantum physics · time · memory · privacy · power and control · knowledge · curiosity · ethics of intervention · thought experiments · language and reality · the nature of existence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1304
After Europe vanishes in 1912, a photographer joins an expedition into the new wilderness and uncovers a reality-shattering secret.
Why this is here
Themes labels: evolution · creationism · religious fundamentalism · science vs religion · nature vs civilization · reality and illusion · memory · mortality · destiny · human insignificance · cosmic conflict · immortality · preservation vs entropy · faith · colonialism · imperialism · scientific inquiry · identity · the nature of existence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1314
