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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Permanence.
Themes labels used: desire, longing, devotion, choice, consequences, secrecy, deception, infidelity, memory, presence and absence, permanence, impermanence, illusion versus reality, sacrifice, guilt, obsession, novelty, novelty wear-off, love and limits, witnesses, ordinary life, freedom versus commitment, harm, self-destruction, real connection
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A man tests a strange drug in Cornwall and becomes obsessed with watching, but not entering, the medieval past.
Why this is here
Themes labels: addiction · escapism · reality vs illusion · memory · perception · identity · time · the past · consequences · desire · longing · obsession · marriage · gender relations · loss of control · ethical experimentation · science and morality · anxiety · alienation
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1074
A wrongly committed woman wakes in a surreal Wonderland simulation and must escape with a chaotic, dangerous cat-like alien.
Why this is here
Themes labels: sanity · madness · identity · escape · illusion vs reality · control · captivity · agency · trauma · desire · love as salvation · greed · betrayal · objectification · trust
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1191
When a long-lost brother returns from war, an omega’s forbidden attraction sparks a secret that may not be what it seems.
Why this is here
Themes labels: forbidden desire · guilt · shame · self-denial · identity · deception · trust · longing · obsession · desire vs duty · social reputation · family obligation · secret attraction · acceptance · emotional repression
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1243
At a secretive time-travel academy, Natasha races through history for artifacts while deciding whom to trust—and who may be lying.
Why this is here
Themes labels: trust · lies · secrecy · identity · self-discovery · free will · fate · loyalty · betrayal · moral ambiguity · power · control · time manipulation · history and truth · choice · responsibility · memory · grief · trauma · ambition
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1263
At a remote desert research outpost, a found specimen unleashes quarantine, contagion, and twisted desire.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · shame · identity · isolation · loneliness · consent · sexuality · acceptance · self-erasure · fulfillment · temptation · survival · contagion · quarantine · conformity · connection · self-acceptance · alienation · obsession · infection
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1276
A lonely content moderator secretly pursues an all-consuming, plane-centered desire that threatens her carefully normal life.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · loneliness · acceptance · authenticity · social norms · fate · grief · isolation · human connection · selfhood · performance · control · obsession · mortality · normalcy · alienation · shame · judgment · coping mechanism · identity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1293
A sick, secretive lover tries to end a doomed relationship, but desire, rivals, and conspiracy keep pulling them back together.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love and death · sacrifice · secrecy · loneliness · desire · control · duty · self-destruction · protection · trust · shame · acceptance
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1307
Daemon's side of the story deepens the romance, exposes hidden motives, and adds new scenes to a familiar sequel.
Why this is here
Themes labels: love and sacrifice · trust · secrecy · loyalty · protectiveness · jealousy · fear of loss · identity · control · forbidden attraction · coming of age · morality of protection · truth and lies
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1310
A clerk is sent to stop a mad scientist whose machines turn desire into reality and shatter a city’s order.
Why this is here
Themes labels: desire · identity · reality vs illusion · rationality vs irrationality · sexuality · dreams · subjectivity · liberation · control · selfhood · social order · unconscious · ethics of desire
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1315
Twelve uncanny stories twist modern life, turning grief, technology, and desire into strange new monsters.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loneliness · mortality · coming of age · technology · guilt · sexuality · desire · regret · identity · memory · consciousness · longing · sleep · taste · abuse · power · community · human condition · modernity · nostalgia · loss · dependency · intimacy · revenge · obsession · fear · choice · freedom
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1320
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
Why this is here
Themes labels: memory · transcendence · loss · grief · love · alienation · meaning-making · reality vs fantasy · the occult · gnosticism · desire · identity · trauma · illusion · language and story · mortality · illusion of control · the mundane and uncanny
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1324
A grieving ghost hunter buys a cursed rifle and is pulled into a frantic, supernatural race through time and memory.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · obsession · memory · love · sacrifice · belief vs skepticism · truth and denial · moving on · good vs evil
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1325
