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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Iron Garden Sutra.
Themes labels used: death, grief, faith, AI rights, personhood, solitude, loneliness, existentialism, identity, embodiment, agency, humanity, religion, ritual, mortality, trauma, self-worth, connection, closure, trust, desire, contentment, nonviolence, violence, science and faith
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Two telepaths investigate a world where humans are joining an alien faith that promises total belonging at a deadly cost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loneliness · connection · belonging · religion · faith · God · death · happiness · identity · communication · human condition · existentialism · truth · selfhood · sacrifice · individuality vs collectivity · search for meaning · desire for unity · alien intelligence
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0833
A surreal short story collection where bizarre premises reveal love, loss, faith, and human longing.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loss · longing · family · faith · aging · death · euthanasia · connection · compassion · loneliness · identity · humanity · social critique · technology · time · change · morality · isolation · self-sacrifice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0877
Two astronauts stranded together on a secret space mission must survive shipboard mysteries, lies, and growing trust.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · existentialism · loneliness · trust · love · survival · hope · grief · identity · meaning of life · connection · human resilience · isolation · paranoia · acceptance · mortality · selfhood · community
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0933
A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love · loneliness · humanity · personhood · loss · hope · compassion · faith · grief · class · inequality · technology · ethics · sacrifice · identity · social isolation · parenting · mortality · belonging
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0938
A traumatized, unkillable relic is dragged back into a ruined world of AI gods, mechs, devotion, and dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Themes labels: personhood · autonomy · devotion · faith · religious trauma · identity · selfhood · power and control · resistance · survival · transhumanism · memory · trauma · grief · possession · consumption · corruption · consent · obligation · love and horror
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0940
A damaged necromancer on a haunted space station must survive war, secrets, and her own fractured mind.
Why this is here
Themes labels: death · grief · trauma · memory · identity · power · sacrifice · madness · mental illness · disability · loneliness · knowledge · trust · deception · mortality · resurrection · faith · queer love · body horror · selfhood
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0965
A Salamanders captain leads a galaxy-spanning quest to return his fallen primarch to Nocturne amid war, warp horrors, and doubt.
Why this is here
Themes labels: faith · belief · grief · loss · rebirth · sacrifice · loyalty · duty · willpower · identity · trauma · fanaticism
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1012
A scientist uses duplicate selves to probe a deadly lunar labyrinth, forcing one reckless volunteer to survive repeated death.
Why this is here
Themes labels: death · identity · mortality · selfhood · human condition · masculinity · gender roles · courage · suicide · sanity · knowledge and sacrifice · existentialism · human nature · personhood · rebirth · loneliness · PTSD · ethical sacrifice · science and morality · meaning of life
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1015
In a far-future monastery, an automaton, a detective, and an angel race to solve a pope’s murder before divine punishment falls.
Why this is here
Themes labels: religion · faith · divinity · memory · trauma · addiction · identity · selfhood · regret · guilt · humanity · choice · redemption · grief · repression · belief · sacrifice · organized religion · fanaticism · power
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1031
An audio-first Legion novella sends Stephen Leeds into an FBI data-breach case where sound, faith, and vengeance collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: mental illness · grief · loss · identity · sanity · competence · perception · technology and ethics · religion and science · faith · memory · isolation · trust · control · humanity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1037
A nameless undead woman crosses a ruined world, carrying grief, hunger, and a fading self toward what she has lost.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · identity · mortality · love · yearning · hunger · emptiness · meaning · selfhood · embodiment · dissociation · transformation · death · loneliness · mourning · regret · existentialism · nihilism · hope
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1038
A grieving alchemist and his runaway nephew chase a madmaking salamander across the nineteenth-century Northwest.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · death · resurrection · mortality · friendship · human connection · found family · identity · belonging · meaning · faith · belief · alchemy · environmental destruction · ecological exploitation · colonialism · manifest destiny · progress · industrialization · masculinity · queerness · addiction · suicide · religious fundamentalism · human cruelty · care · hope amid despair
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1038
