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Themes labels used: identity, belonging, loneliness, morality, ethics, human evolution, individuality, collective self, symbiosis, alienation, power, conscience, difference, social acceptance, humanity, psychiatry, sanity, morality and power, group purpose

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To Marry Medusa

Theodore Sturgeon · 1999

An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.

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Themes labels: collective consciousness · individuality · community · cooperation · alienation · human nature · humanism · transcendence · evolution · identity · selfhood · miscommunication · loneliness · fear · violence · hope · optimism · compassion · civilization · social critique · gender and sex · sexuality · class

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Distance: 0.0938

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Camouflage

Joe Haldeman · 2005

Two ancient shape-shifting aliens hide on Earth for centuries until a deep-ocean artifact pulls them into collision.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · moral development · adaptation · alienation · gender · sexuality · war · violence · empathy · memory · belonging · evolution · ethics · human nature

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Resident Alien, Omnibus: Volume 1

Peter Hogan · 2020 · Resident Alien (Collected Editions)

A stranded alien posing as a small-town doctor gets drawn into murders, secrets, and human community.

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Themes labels: belonging · human nature · identity · secrecy · outsider integration · community · trust · compassion · curiosity · purpose · moral ambiguity · acceptance · observing humanity

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Distance: 0.1121

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Gladiator

Philip Wylie · 1930

A super-strong man’s life unfolds as he searches for belonging while society fears the gift that sets him apart.

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Themes labels: alienation · otherness · individualism · human nature · morality · responsibility · purpose · identity · belonging · society and difference · war futility · disillusionment · eugenics · superiority · gift and burden · fear of difference · modernity · nature vs nurture · loneliness · bullying · social criticism · human limitation · power and ethics · self-control · despair · hope · sexism · racism

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Distance: 0.1134

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Adulthood Rites

Octavia E. Butler · 1988 · Xenogenesis

A hybrid child raised between humans and aliens grows toward adulthood while both species fight over humanity's future.

Why this is here

Themes labels: human nature · difference · identity · autonomy · consent · freedom · extinction · survival · evolution · genetics · hierarchy · colonization · self-destruction · belonging · otherness · reproduction · gender · sexuality · self-determination · empathy · humanity

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Distance: 0.1148

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The Midwich Cuckoos

John Wyndham · 1957

A quiet English village wakes to find all its women pregnant after a mysterious blackout, and the children are not ordinary.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · human nature · survival · evolution · coercion · reproduction · bodily autonomy · difference and tolerance · power and authority · ethics · humanity · collective consciousness · biological destiny · invasion from within · scientific vs religious explanations

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The Last Human

Zack Jordan · 2020

A hidden human teen on an alien space station is thrust into a galaxy-spanning chase that tests intelligence, freedom, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · belonging · free will · determinism · order and chaos · intelligence · consciousness · personhood · truth and deception · survival · authority · control · community · individualism · species survival · human nature · perspective · moral choice · technology and power

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Parasyte, Volume 8

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 2009 · Parasyte (8 Volumes Edition)

In the final volume, Shinichi faces the deadliest parasite yet while confronting what separates humans from monsters.

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Themes labels: human nature · identity · coexistence · morality · survival · anthropocentrism · environmental damage · ecological balance · selfhood · empathy · soul · species conflict · evolution · death · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1169

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Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

Ursula K. Le Guin · The Hainish Cycle

A misfit survey crew meets a forest world whose plant-life seems to feel fear and think as one.

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Themes labels: empathy · fear · the Other · acceptance · interpersonal conflict · consciousness · intelligence · community · loneliness · alienation · migration · ecology · planetary ethics · ableism · difference · coexistence · human nature · contact with unknown · time perspective · sacrifice

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Sirius

Olaf Stapledon · 2000

A scientist raises a dog with human intelligence, and his lonely life exposes the limits of belonging, love, and humanity.

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Themes labels: alienation · otherness · identity · belonging · consciousness · humanity · nature versus nurture · intelligence · love · loneliness · religion · spirit · society and prejudice · ethics of experimentation · war · fear of the unknown · community · soul · meaning of life · free will · self-worth · difference · empathy · bigotry · disability

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The Werewolf Principle

Clifford D. Simak · 1994

An amnesiac space traveler returns to a strange future Earth and discovers his body hides multiple minds and a buried secret.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · selfhood · consciousness · mind-body problem · bioethics · genetic engineering · evolution · otherness · acceptance · intolerance · exploration ethics · alienation · purpose · loneliness · memory · free will · plural identity

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Distance: 0.0946

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2017

A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.

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Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement

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Distance: 0.0964

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